SUPPORTOBJECTIVE LLC
FLEMING ISLAND, FLORIDA

SupportObjective is about making customers successful with affordable support options and technical services designed for small and large organizations. We recognize that all your applications are mission critical and deserve the highest degree of attention. Our support programs allows your technical team to work with our product experts on a target resolution schedule. All the SupportObjective product expert team have years of experience in their supported products, and many are well known and active within the product communities. We can handle all issues with a range of priorities, including 24x7 support, to help you from starting a new project to maintaining your production systems. We have a performance issue, can you help? As I stated above the only reason to use the multicast port setup is for in-memory session replication.  This feature works but it still takes time to get all the servers synched for every session variable change on all the cluster peers.  I would not recommend this for production servers.  The replication creates all kinds of traffic, and you never really know how fast all the sessions are synch'd.  If you have a server go down, it is not 100% that it will be a seamless hand-off, which is kind of the point to replicating in the first place.   As an alternative to Connector load balancer you might look at using a product called HAProxy to route requests.  It has similar features as F5 but it is all software based.