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KG
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May 24, 2019

Can I use BIG-IQ as standalone in 2 Data Centers? - 1 BIG-IQ in Data Center 1 and 1 BIG-IQ in Data Center 2

Hello everyone. We purchased BIG-IQ VEs recently and we are planning to remove EMs once BIG-IQs are good to go. Today, we have 2 EMs as standalone boxes in each Data Center and we would like to have ...
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DeeJz
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Jun 17, 2019

I see no reason why you couldn't run them completely independent of one another. I think the ideal way to configure it would be in an ha pair.

Are you going to push updates to the bigips from the CM? Are your data centers active / active or is one a DR site. Why do you want two different CM's to manage your devices?