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THi
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Sep 25, 2014

BIG-IP pair split between two DCs, how to set up failover with all traffic moved and kept within one DC - no GTM

I have a customer scenario:   two data centers DC1 and DC2 close each other (all VLANS shared) BIG-IP LTM HA pair split between those, unit 1 in DC1, unit 2 in DC2, DC1 one being preferred activ...
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turo
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Sep 26, 2014

The HA Froup with pool member threshold would work for the failover part.

 

For the pool selection based on the active unit id one option would be using the failover scripts: http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/6000/000/sol6008.html the failover script would set an active unit identifier to an external data group file and the iRule would check this identifier form the DG and decide which pool (from DC1/DC2) to use based on that.

 

-Turo