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nanukanu_263047
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May 30, 2016

About Failover Method..

Hi,   When configuring a traffic-group it is possible to specify a failover method other than LOAD AWARE. If only 2 systems exists (1 Active - 1 Passive), does it make sense to create an HA GROUP...
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May 30, 2016

Hi,

 

I prefer using HA order with autofailback disabled to make sure that if my active unit fail, the second in my device group will go active but never come back active on the first device.

 

Load aware is mostly to be used when you have a device group with dissimilar bigips. I definetly recommend ha order

 

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    nanukanu_263047
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    May 30, 2016
    Hi Yann, ok, so can you briefly explain HA Group vs HA order? Thanks!
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    Yann_Desmarest
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    May 30, 2016
    Sure, HA order take the next available device in the order that you define
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    Yann_Desmarest
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    May 30, 2016
    HA group define a health score based on pool, trunk and cluster health and cause a failover to the device with highest health score when the active device goes below a health value