DSC is not coming up for LTM VEs after initial setup
Hi everyone. It looks like I am facing an issue described here: https://devcentral.f5.com/questions/devices-are-not-synchronizing-configuration-to-each-other-59604. The point is that I was trying to configure DCS for a pair of LTM VEs and DCS did not come up (Standby device has a status "Awaiting Initial Sync. Device has not synced with group"). I have tried multiple TMOS versions: 13.1.0.2, 13.1.0.6, 13.1.1.2. In all cases I got the same message at Standby unit in logs: "...warning mcpd[4418]: 01071aea:4: CMI heartbeat timer expired..". I am using VMware Fusion 8.0.0, OSX 10.11.6. The comments in the post above state this was not fixed in the most recent version 14.0.0.2 as well. Could you tell if DCS is actually working for VEs versions 13,14 at the moment? Thank you!
The answer to my initial question - yes, it is possible to configure DSC with VE v13, at least, using LAB license. But this requires 8 GB of RAM and 4 CPUs per VE. Not sure if this can be performed with Trial or Evaluation licenses as I have no possibility to test this.