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Oct 28, 2014

BIG-IP : sync-failover device-group sync options

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition v11.4.1 (Build 635.0) LTM on ESXi For a device-group of type sync-failover, the admin browser provides these options : Automatic Sync Full Sync Maximum Incremental Sy...

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NikhilB

Employee

Oct 29, 2014

Automatic Sync - Sync is automatic and not manual. Done almost immediatelly after a change is made

Full Sync - if checked will do a FULL sync and if left unchecked, only an incremental sync

Maximum Incremental Sync Size (KB) - 1024 - if you make more than this default value it goes into FullSync mode. (number is a variable)

support.f5.com has further info on this. Hope this helps for now.

BaltoStar_12467
Nov 20, 2014
thanks NikhilB .. what would motivate a full-sync vs an incremental-sync ? are there scenarios where an incremental-sync is not fully reliable ?
Zdenda
Cirrus
Jun 04, 2016
Hi, opening this after some time... I am also curious what would motivate you to select full-sync over incremental-sync?
Yann_Desmarest
Cirrus
Jun 04, 2016
Hi, we forced full-sync over incremental-sync because we get lot of issues with incremental since we are using many iapps. There is a known issue and should have been fixed in latest bigip version.