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Chris_Phillips
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Sep 28, 2010

GTM instead of LTM HA

Hi,     I'm looking at deploying a new environment with dedicated 6900 LTMs and have concerns about the single point of failure they represent in an HA config. Sure it's "HA" and it's two machin...
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Chris_Miller
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Sep 28, 2010
I would definitely chat with a Sales/Systems Engineer as far as the GTM implications. GTM will allow you to leverage DNS to add a bit of resiliency, not to mention allowing for layer 3 failures...If you're simply using an LTM pair, you're going to be using "floating" IP addresses which obviously have to be in the same subnet.