Anyone Using a Load Balancer for Plex Media Server

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I would like to know if anyone is using a Load Balancer to distribute the Plex load on servers on the backend. I want to connect a F5 load balancer using one public IP address and port then distribute that to multiple servers behind based on resources available to the the server.
This way I only have to see one server in the list however it will distrbute the load (RAM, Video, etc.) on the backend.

I am currently using a Netpp storage Filer for all file hosting.

Thanks for any insight to issues you might of had during the setup.

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Load balancing refers more to switching equipment than leveraging multiple computing systems to quickly achieve tasks. What you want is a cluster, which will optimally make use of load balancing in order to efficiently use resources. Windows Server OS has clustering features.

Without formal training in these topics, that’s as far as I can help you.

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Were you ever able to get Plex working with an f5 load balancer? I want it to round robin connections externally.