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NimbostratusBigIP 4200: VS partition mail <> vlan, Self, floating partition common?
Hi,
we are using several partitions but no route domain. We started loadbalancing Exchange in partition "common" using the Exchange iAPP and wanted to move Exchange to the partition "mail". So we set up a second iAPP for Exchange in the mail-partiton and switched the IPs of the virtual-server during a downtime. We checked the function and the loadbalancing is working fine.
Today I figured out, the we forgot to switch the vlan, self-IPs and the floating-IP to the new partition. So at the moment we have everything included by the iAPP (VS, SNAT, Pools, Nodes...) in partition "mail" and vlan,self,floating in partition "common". Is there a reason I have to switch the partition for vlan,self, floating short-term? Will I get problems if the active unit is going to switch? There is no chance to switch the partition without diconnecting the Exchange-Clients, isn't it?
Thanks in advance
Regards, Thorsten
System: BigIP 4200, 11.4.0 HF3
2 Replies
Henrik_GyllkranWell, the reason is that it would be more clean and neat to collect the configuration inside the same partition but otherwise it doesn't really matter as long as you're not using Route Domains.
Hopefully these are not the same Self IP:s you're using for the HA communication? If it is you can't move them, those addresses needs to be in Common.
As for disconnecting clients while moving the config to a partition, I would do it on the standby unit and fail over and then do it on the other one so the effect on clients should be fairly minimal but depending on how mirroring is set up you will most likely still have disconnected connections.
Regards, Henrik
fat_138651Hi Henrik,
thanks for your answer.
I'm planning to change the configuration, but under this circumstances I will wait until the next regular Exchange downtime. The BigIPs were set up by an F5-Engineer, so HA is using different IPs.
Regards, Thorsten
