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Josh_41258
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Sep 18, 2013

ASM on VIPRION/vCMP

I am new to ASM here, and I'm looking for some advice on best practices for an ASM deployment using vCMP.   Is it recommended to run separate vCMP guests for ASM and LTM, or run both LTM and ASM...
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JPV_131616
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Jan 16, 2014

You would want anything in an HA pair at a minimum ideally, or two active active instances like you mentioned accessed via a pool from ltm.

 

Not sure it will use backplane, thats more for vlan/network visibility between blades physically.

 

Not sure if b2100 blades can support asm/ltm combo, thats the easiest solution, but from a scalability perspective it makes more sense to have it on separate guests.

 

I am about to try the asm/ltm/wa combo on some guests soon, but it's on the new 2150 blades with SSD, etc.. I think triple combos require the new blades...

 

I am also using 2 x 2400 chassis with 3 2150 blades in each chassis, I have HA instances across the two chassis.