Forum Discussion
Nimbostratusactive active setup for bigip
I am trying to setup an active-active setup with a pair of bigip devices. I have some questions.. 1> how many floating self-ips and non-floating self-ips are required for at a minimum for each vlan? 2> can different virtuals from the same vlan be there on different units or the same unit? 3> does pool member monitoring still work like in active-standby setup viz., like non-floating selfip getting status of pool members and floating ip processing traffic....
3 Replies
Stanislas_Piro2Cumulonimbus
Hi,
The following answers are for version 11.x, the cluster behavior is different in previous versions.
-
For each VLAN :
- 1 self IP is required per Big IP
- For routing needs, 1 floating IP is needed per Traffic Group on each VLAN
-
Virtual servers are not defined on units, Virtual address are defined on traffic group (traffic group 1 by default). there is no limitation on VLAN / Traffic groups
-
Pool members are monitored with non floating self IP
Active / Active cluster is configured with 2 traffic groups acting as Active / Passive Cluster. to convert a Active / Passive Cluster to an Active / Passive cluster, you need to :
- create a traffic group (traffic-group-2)
- create floating self IPs in traffic-group-2 (used to SNAT automap)
- change virtual address traffic group to traffic-group-2
-
jamesdrisIs there any particular guide you can point me to which shows how to setup active - active setup ? things like creating traffic groups and device groups.
arpydaysin the documentation section of askf5.com
