F5 as high availability failover and not as load sharing?

 

 

The load balancing algorithm will only affect which pool member is chosen first. Once a single request has been answered by the first selected pool member, all requests will go to that member for as long as it is marked up by the monitor. If you want to try to force one pool member to be selected first, you could use priority on the pool. But this is still independent of the load balancing algorithm. I'd suggest round robin would be fine.

 

 

 

 

 

Great, I'll leave the round robin then.