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Thompso7540_201
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Jan 12, 2016

cabling for bigip 5250v

We are setting up our two 5250v's. We want to use 10Gb link aggregation to the network and also active/standby HA.   I read on a whitepaper that you should use both direct and network failover me...
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Brad_Parker
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Jan 12, 2016

Since you will be using vCMP the serial failover will not work. I would recommend setting up a dedicated HA VLAN using a dedicate port/VPC either through your switch or directly cabled. Since you are planning on VPC, switch failure isn't a huge concern for failover if you have the extra cabling and almost makes it so you don't need VLAN failsafe since your HA network will be possibly traversing the same switch.