Priority Group Activation:

o It is in F5 allows configuring the standby servers for the active servers in the pool.
o Standby Servers won’t receive the traffic from F5 until primary servers are running.
o Standby servers are auto activated once defined number of primary servers goes down.
o Priority Group Activation feature mainly used to provide a web page with maintenance.
o It is to clients when the number of primary servers was unavailable due to load etc.
o Priority Group Activation allows to configure multiple priority pool groups within pool.
o If priority group activation is set, F5 LTM will use available members with the highest.
o In F5 Local Traffic Manager Priority Group configured for pool member within the pool.
o In F5 Local Traffic Manager The default priority of pool members is assigned with 0 value.
o The pool member group which has the highest priority called as a primary priority group.
o The Pool member group other pool member group is called as a secondary priority group.
o By default, the pool member group with the highest priority will receive the traffic only.
o If the minimum number of pool members are not active in the highest priority group.
o Than secondary priority group will be activated in Local Traffic Manger to receive traffic.
o Once minimum number of pool members become active in the primary priority group.
o Then all new connection will be sent to primary priority group in Local Traffic Manager.
o The Priority group method is disabled by default connections are load-balanced based.

If you have 3 members that are active within a pool and you select round robin LB method and
set the priority group activation for less than 2, the virtual server is only going to use two of
three nodes to round robin.

1 | P a g e Created by Ahmad Ali E-Mail: ahmadalimsc@gmail.com , Mobile: 056 430 3717