Folders and synchronization

Hi,

For some reason my original post just vanished. I would like to figure out real life usage of folders and different Device Group (DG) or Traffic Group (TG) assignment. As far as I understand subject: 1. Device can be member of only one sync-failover DG (SFDG). So only one such group could be assigned to any folder. 2. Device can be member of many sync-only DGs (SODG). So different folders can be assigned to different SODGs 3. Traffic Group (floating) can be only connected to SFDG. There can be many TGF so different folders can be assigned do different TGFs.

So far so good, now part I am not sure (hope that above is indeed true :-) 1. If /Common folder is assigned to SFDG and there is App_A folder inside that is assigned to some SODG what will happen. App_A folder will be excluded from syncing performed by SFDG? It will be included but as well synced to another device specified by SODG? 2. If given folder as an attribute has SODG then there is no way to assign any TGF to such folder, only None or traffic-group-local-only is valid? For None objects are replicated to other devices for traffic-group-local-only they are not replicated.

Then what are real life scenarios when SODG are used most often. SODG plus None as TG can be used to replicate for example VSs and VIPs to another device but as far as I understand it then IP conflict can occure, if there is no L2 (VLAN) or L3 (router) separation between interfaces of BIG-IP devices where those VIPs are active. I am wondering when using SODG is good idea.

Piotr