F5 can be active active / or /active passive

You can run either way.

 

 

active/active just means both uints handle SOME of the VS's at the same time. If one fails, then both units handle ALL the traffic. Some people don't like this... But I do.

 

 

Most objections come in around the argument that in a failure situation a single box may not be able to handle then whole peak load. But that's doubly true of running it all on a single box in the first place :) In a situation where you don't have a failure, you do have more capacity.

 

 

H

Hi Nabeel,

 

 

You have to be careful with capacity planning for Active/Active. Ensure you take into account the joint capacity of the two boxes (CPU, MEM, etc).

 

 

Cheers,

 

Brian