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fubarSUSHI's avatar
fubarSUSHI
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Apr 05, 2014

Design question #2: Active-Standby pair in two different data centers

The question that got brought up is if a LTM pair (two devices paired) can be in two different data centers with a point to point 100mb line in between?   The request imho is "network-wise" not ...
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Luke_Lehman
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Apr 05, 2014

OTV is popular to discuss, but sometimes complex to run/maintain. Keeping different VLANs between locations is preferable for numerous reasons. Ease of support, prevention of "trombone-ing", etc.

 

First off, what's the latency? If may be too high out of the gate which will make the rest of the questions moot.