In this series of articles I had set up a highly available test environment with Kemp load balancers. As it was a test environment, I was more interested in the function than the optimum. However, there are a few things that can be tweaked to optimize the environment. Here are the most important ones:
Switch on stateful failover and reduce HA timeouts:
Use Virtual MAC:
Fast switching in the event of server failure:
Configure persistence:
Switch off SNAT: