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alex100
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Feb 23, 2022

Big-IP Layer 2 networking in OCI (Oracle Cloud)

HI Devcentral, I am working on POC in Oracle cloud. So I am deploying an HA pair of VEs based on F5 doc.  No issues there following documentation. Learning all the nonsense about the requirement to ...
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Dario_Garrido
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Apr 27, 2022

 

Hello Alex100.

All the cloud solutions (AWS, Azure, OCI, ...) are built using SDN, so OSI layers are not perfectly equivalent to typical network infrastructure. For example, ARP protocol doesn't exist in AWS, so configuring the cluster requires installing some extra add-ons.

For this reason, L2 is not fully supported in the majority of cloud solutions.

I recommend you configure the cluster following this procedure:

https://clouddocs.f5.com/cloud/public/v1/oracle/oracle_deploy.html#oci-ha