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Thierry_LEQUER1
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusHA -ACTIVE/STANDBY GUESTS with vCMP HOST(s) into i7800 or i5800
Hello, i need to consolidate (agregate) many Big-IP 2000 LTM Clusters (ACTIVE/STANDBY) into 2 x i7800 by using vCMP. I get 2 Datacenter sites DC1 , DC2). My Clusters are local ( 2 x Big-IP(ACTIV...
Andrew-F5
Employee
EmployeeYou cannot configure one i7800 to act as two hosts, this is impossible.
I would not recommend migrating the 2000 active/standby to a single i7800 hardware, you will no longer have redundancy as you now have a single hardware fail point.
If you migrated ALL your 2000 active/standby and the single i7800 died, you just lost ALL traffic for all applications, a true side wide outage.
To reiterate; DO NOT put both your active and standby devices on the same physical hardware.
