Application persistence 'lost'

Question

We setup our pair of CSS11506 units in VRRP redundancy mode about 2.5 years ago. All of services are created individually, one on port 80 and one on port 443. Each of their VIPs are the same, port 80 and 443. It was a requirement for our 443 application that when a service is suspended the users currently on that server through the VIP should not be impacted. They should be able to complete their work until they close the session or reach the content rule's idle timeout. Below is an example of how our services and rules are created. Anyone see an issue with this?
service server01-443
ip address 10.10.10.5
protocol tcp
port 443
redundant-index 5
keepalive type script ap-kal-ssl "10.10.10.5 "
keepalive frequency 15
active
service server01-80
ip address 10.10.10.5
protocol tcp
port 80
string server1
keepalive type script ap-kal-httptag "10.10.10.5 /keepalive.asp <A HREF="javascript:newWin('http://www.oururl.com"')">www.oururl.com"</A>
keepalive frequency 15
active
content www-oururl-443
vip address 10.10.10.30
protocol tcp
port 443
add service server01-443
redundant-index 30
sticky-inact-timeout 30
advanced-balance sticky-srcip
balance weightedrr
active
content www-oururl-80
vip address 10.10.10.30
protocol tcp
port 80
url "/*"
advanced-balance arrowpoint-cookie
arrowpoint-cookie browser-expire
add service server01-80
balance weightedrr
active
Thanks
Chad

Answer 1

the 'weight 0' works with all type of loadbalancing method - leastconn included.
I would like to clarify something.
suspend will actually not impact current connections.
So, you could suspend a service and the currently connected users will be able to keep their connections.
However,most of the time, during an HTTP connection you open and close connections.
With suspend, no new connections are allowed, even for users already connected.
The graceful shutdown allows connections to go to the server if there is a sticky entry matching the client and server.
This is useful to permit a user to finish browsing - not just finish downloading a page.
Gilles.