ACE 4710 rserver in multiple server farms

[eagles-nest]

Hi

THis may be a silly question but can I put multiple rservers in multiple server farms?

So for example rserver1 and rserver2 are put in serverfarm production1 and are in use with particular sticky and load balancing settings.

Can I then create serverfarm test_production and put both rserver1 and rserver2 in it?  Then play around with the sticky and load balancing settings as a test without affecting the production serverfarm.  

Thanks, St.                

[kollross · Accepted solution]

You can put rservers in multiple serverfarms at the same time.  Using policy and class maps you determine which traffic will get sent to each serverfarm.

You can then use a Layer 7 class map to direct any traffic from www.domain.com to production serverfarm and another class map to direct traffic from test.domain.com to a different serverfarm.  Any load balancing changes only will affect the classmap.

Obviously your servers will would have to multiple virtual hosts to serve out traffic for both domains.