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Martin_Sharratt's avatar
Martin_Sharratt
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Nov 12, 2014

F5 Failover

Apologies for what is probably a really basic question but I've just inherited this with minimal handover. Anyway, here goes:   We have two F5 LTM's in a Sync-Failover pair. They're load balanci...
application delivery
availability
LTM
management
R_Eastman_13667's avatar
R_Eastman_13667
Historic F5 Account
Nov 12, 2014

I would manually set the primary F5 to standby and then verify that the new primary F5 is processing all the traffic. I would then set the former primary F5, the current standby F5 to "Offline". Setting it to offline will tell the new primary to not failover because the standby is "Offline". Turn off the F5, move it, then power it back up. Bring it "Online" and verify that it can communicate with the primary F5.