it is up to you, but perhaps you should start with something simpler then.
one virtual server (standard) listening on port 80 (HTTP), one pool with one member also on port 80. not special profiles, just the basic and go from there.
then see if you can browse to the virtual server and get the website of the pool member to show up.
for tcpdump on both sides you can use the interface 0.0, so:
tcpdump -i 0.0 -nn
if that causes to much traffic you could use it with a filter, but then you need to use both the virtual server ip and the nodes.
tcpdump -i 0.0 -nn host or host or host