Load Balancing Redis Instance

Doesn't Redis have built in clustering, thus negating the need for load balancing?

Yes, it does. But just wondering if anyone made an attempt to load balance.

Yes Redis has load balancing "clustering" but we are getting better performance with F5 in front of the 2 Redis nodes that are configured in a Master/Slave orientation. Each pair of Redis nodes have a specific device priority to create HA failover on our F5 LTM.

For the F5 health monitor I used the Redis service listening port. In our case we configured Redis to listen on port 7000 but I think the default port is 6379. We are also using ManageEngine to monitor the host systems Redis is running on.

Found this while researching my own master slave configuration. I am having great success using Master/Slave configuration. For health checks on which node to use for the pool I have a monitor.

monitor redis-is-master {
   defaults from tcp
   interval 2
   timeout 5
   recv "role:master"
   send "info\r\nquit\r\n"