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resource class best practice

nygenxny123
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I have created a reserved context with 20% min and max = to min in every resource

including sticky.

I also have the default resource class

I have also created another resource with 20% sticky but left everything else at default 0-100%

our network traffic doesnt carry a heavy load on the new loadbalancer..but what is a good rule of thumb?

most of the traffic is http and at this point we will create about 2 contexts after the Admin

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Telmo Pereira
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Cisco Employee

Hello!

This is a very pertinent question, however as many things in life there is no one size fits all here.

We basically recommend, as best practice, to allocate for each specific context only the estimated needed resources. These values should always come from a previous study on the network patterns/load.

To accomodate for growth and scalability it is strongly advised to initially keep as many resources reserved as possible and allocate the unused resources as needed. To accomplish this goal, you should created a reserved resource class, as you did already, with a guarantee of 20 to 40 percent of all ACE resources and configure a virtual context solely with the purpose of ensuring that these resources are reserved.

As you might already know ACE protects resources in use, this means that when decreasing a context's resources, the resources must be unused before then can be reused by other context. Although it is possible to decrease the resource allocations in real time, it typically requires additional overhead to clear any used resources before reducing them.

Based on the traffic patterns, number of connections, throughput, concurrent SSL connections , etc, for each of the sites you will be deploying you will have a better idea on what might be the estimated needed resources and then assign them to each of the contexts. Thus this is something that greatly depends on customer's network environment.

Hope this helps to clarify your doubts.

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