DC Post of the Week - iControl for SQL Server Triggered Failover

This week, Colin & Deb dig into an interesting scenario presented by poster dchenna requesting feedback on the best way to quickly and reliably swap out the active database server for certain operational & maintenance events.  After reviewing the relative merits of a the suggestions and warnings offered by several respondents, it seems the best solution is an iControl call to modify the pool configuration when required. Here’s the post:  F5 to load balance MS Sql Servers   Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral Daily, Post of the...

DC Post of the Week - Finding Latency in Multi-hop Connections

In this week’s Post of the Week, Colin & Deb take a look at a question from poster shayne.rinne, and offer some suggestions for determining the source of additional latency when a second virtual server is added into the path between a client, a reverse proxy, and the origin server.. Here's the post: VIP to VIP communication   Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, Post of the Week, DCTVPOTW, Latency, Deb Allen, Colin Walker

DC Post of the Week - Application Health Monitors: Alternate Ports

In this week’s Post of the Week, Deb Allen talks about a forum post by user sojourner9 regarding configuring an application health monitor to check a port besides the one configured for a pool member.   Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, Post of the Week, DCTVPOTW, Health Monitors, Deb Allen

DC Post of the Week - Application Health Monitors : Response Strings

In this week’s Post of the Week, Deb Allen talks about a forum post by DevCentral user michael.trott about setting up an appropriate Response string to mark a server down if it returns a “200 OK” along with a detailed error page.     Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, Post of the Week, DCTVPOTW, Health Monitors, Deb Allen Share this post :

DC Post of the Week - Persisting Across Virtual Servers

This week’s Post of the Week is based on a post by sosa123, entitled  F5 and RTCP, looking for guidance in configuring persistence to the same servers across 2 different virtual servers.  Deb Allen and Colin Walker go through the steps required to support this commonly requested load balancing scenario.   Technorati Tags: F5, DevCentral, DCTVPOTW, Post of the Week, RTCP, Persistence, Load Balancing, Colin Walker, Deb Allen