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Configuring multiple ports associated with a VIP and Serverfarm

nygenxny123
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Level 1

Our appliction team would like to set up a new VIP

However depending on the client-different ports will be used to the rserver

so this is how i see the config

class-map match-any NEW-VIP
  2 match virtual-address 172.20.234.33 tcp eq 1023

  2 match virtual-address 172.20.234.33 tcp eq 4050

rserver host server1

192.168.4.3

inservice

rserver host server2

192.168.5.5

inservice

serverfarm NEW-SERVERFARM

rserver server1 1023

inservice

rserver server1 4050

inservice

rserver server2 1023

inservice

rserver server2 4050

inservice

My questin is..will this work?

How will load balancing be done if only certain clients can talk to a server on a certain port?

Will they be sent to the wrong server on the wron port?

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jsirstin
Level 1
Level 1

That config will give you unpredictable results. The ACE will see this as 4 separate rservers in this farm. The first request will be sent to the first server in the farm. The ACE will change the port that is specified for that 1st rserver. If the client happened to come in on the same port the connection would work, but if they come in on the other port it would be a problem. You would probably see close to 50% of your users having issues.

You will need to create two different class-maps and serverfarms to achieve what you want.

Example.

class-map match-any NEW-VIP-1023
  2 match virtual-address 172.20.234.33 tcp eq 1023

class-map match-any NEW-VIP-4050

   2 match virtual-address 172.20.234.33 tcp eq 4050

rserver host server1

192.168.4.3

inservice

rserver host server2

192.168.5.5

inservice

serverfarm NEW-SERVERFARM-1023

rserver server1 1023

  inservice

rserver server2 1023

  inservice

serverfarm NEW-SERVERFARM-4050

rserver server1 4050

  inservice

rserver server2 4050

inservice

You can also create two separate probes and put one probe in each serverfarm. If rserver1 fails port 1023 only that instance of the server will be pulled out of rotation. The same server can still service up port 4050 traffic.

Let me know if this helps?

Regards

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