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VMwareguy_20317
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May 21, 2015

Deploying a PSC in High Availability mode behind a F5 big-IP Load Balancer

Hi,

 

I am trying to setup the Vcenter 6 Platform service controller on HA mode using http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&externalId=2098006 article. I am using 90 days trial version of F5 big-ip 11.3.0 for this setup. However the Virtual IP (VIP) entry created for two PSC nodes is unable to redirect to the PSC while tested to open in the browser :-

 

I can open the PSC1 /PSC2 in the https://psc1.domainname.com & https://psc2.domainname.com however the VIP entry

 

https://pscvip.domainname.com does not load and shows the webpage is not available.

 

Please assist.

 

Thanks

 

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2 Replies

  • amolari's avatar
    amolari
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    May 21, 2015

    health monitor is UP for both? Do you have Automap Enabled on the VIP?

     

  • Greg_Crosby_319's avatar
    Greg_Crosby_319
    Historic F5 Account
    May 21, 2015

    I would verify your virtual servers are setup to use snat auto map and that you have a self ip address for a network that can route to the pool members.

     

    A tcpdump on the BIG-IP would be useful to note where the connection is broken.

     

    something like "tcpdump -ni -0.0:p -s 0 host client ip" where client ip is the address of the client attempting to connect to the virtual server pscvip. The :p (peer flows) will follow the entire flow so when snat is working you can see the translations.