Josh_41258
Sep 21, 2009Nimbostratus
Management of pool members behind LTM
I have a scenario in which several pool members are using the LTM's floating self-ip address as a gateway in order to preserve real client source IP's. I am trying to figure out the best way to handle the management of these backend servers since they are not directly reachable unless I go through the LTM.
One option is to simply create a virtual server for things like RDP (TCP/3389) so I can reach the boxes via RDP or other services. If this is the case, would you reccomend creating a separate virtual server for every service that I would need to access on the pool members?
Another option would be to have a second network interface on the pool members which resides on a routable network.
I also see that nPath routing could be a possible solution but would rather not use this.
How is everyone else handling this?
Thanks,
Josh