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wick54
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusCreating F5 VIP with on IP range not part of interface Subnet
Hi Team, I'm working on scenario where we need application require automatic failover between datacenters. We have F5 LTM in each DC if F5 or application fails we need traffic to automatically ...
Simon_Blakely
Employee
EmployeeI can answer part of your question:
> so my question is can we create a VIP using a separate IP pool other than F5 interface IP network?
You can, and they will be advertised using a routing protocol (if the Virtual IP is configured with Route Advertisement). Note that these VIPs do not broadcast GARPs on failover, because they do not share address space with a self-IP on a vlan.
But as for your design, I'm not sure I quite understand it.
Where is the pool going to be for the VIP (DC1 or DC2 or both)?