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Ryan_Korock_46
May 16, 2008Historic F5 Account
Mark, I think your concern is definately valid.
F5 provides a few methods for load balancing based on server metrics, such as available CPU, memory, disk space, etc.... The two easiest that come to mind is having the BIG-IP collect this data from your servers via SNMP, or using F5's WMI .dll for collection.
Both methods can be used to pull server metrics and load balance based upon the results.
Here is some documentation on how to set this up.
Implementing monitors for Dynamic Ratio load balancing
https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/bigip9_4config/BIGIP_LTM_CONFIG_GD_9_4-17-1.html?sr=755960