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Flip's avatar
Flip
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Mar 22, 2019

APM Cluster A/A - Licensing

Hi,   I'm investigating the possibility of change our actual remote access platform to an APM Cluster.   If we get a pair of BIG-IP APM i4600 with an add on of 1k CCU (total of 2.5k CCU per no...
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BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)
Federico_Meiner's avatar
Federico_Meiner
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Mar 22, 2019

Hello,

 

As far as I know and according to this article Active/Active APM deployments are not supported.

 

"BIG-IP systems can support multiple traffic groups, also referred to as an active-active deployment, but you must restrict APM traffic objects to a single traffic group. The system cannot have BIG-IP APM related traffic objects in multiple traffic groups. This means that you must deploy HA configurations for APM traffic groups in an active-standby-standby (N + M) topology."

 

There are many other posts about this in case that you want to look further.

 

Regarding A/A deployments, it's a best practice to do the sizing of the appliances as if there were active/passive in order to not overload the appliance in case of a failover.

 

Regards,