<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">Aah! Yes--  you are correct. I was thinking a the load balancer level, not the pool level.  (Maybe we can clarify this distinction in the requirements doc?)</div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">But I would also be surprised if there are load balancers today that don't intrinsically offer "active / backup pool membership" as a standard feature.</div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Eugene: This is somewhat similar to weighting, but not exactly the same thing.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Stephen</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Youcef Laribi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Youcef.Laribi@citrix.com" target="_blank">Youcef.Laribi@citrix.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Stephen,<u></u><u></u></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I don’t think the active/passive pools feature is referring to the HA of loadbalancers. This is about the ability to divide the list of members servicing load-balanced
 requests into 2 groups: The first one is active and the second one is passive (or a backup pool). If all the members in the first pool are down, then the passive pool’s members become serving traffic for that VIP.<u></u><u></u></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Youcef</span></p></blockquote></div><br><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><span></span>Stephen Balukoff
<br>Blue Box Group, LLC
<br>(800)613-4305 x807

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