HA configuration ?

Sure, here's a quick method for Active/Standby. It's not really adequate for a production environment - one would likely want to configure failover over some of the other interfaces on their BIGIP HA group.

 

 

There is a lot of information on this topic in the manuals and on DevCentral.

 

 

Almost all of the things I'm showing here can be customized - especially the ports and addresses.

 

 

Pre-requisites:

 

2 licensed VE BIG-IP's (10.1 trial or 10.2 is fine - this also works on hardware based BIG-IP platforms running 10.x) with management ports on the same virtual switch portgroup - or basically, the same layer2/3 topology.

 

 

1) System->Platform tab

 

1.1) instead of "single device" pick "redundant pair"

 

1.2) set ID 1 for one VE and ID 2 for the other.

 

 

2) System->High Availability->Network Failover tab:

 

2.1) Check Enabled for Network Failover.

 

2.2) Put in the mgmt address of each other's peer.

 

 

Multicast Section of Network Failover:

 

2.3) Configuration identifier: demo

 

2.4) Remote address: 224.0.0.245

 

2.5) Port: 8900

 

 

3) Click update (at the bottom)

 

 

4) Look in the top left area of the dashboard. One unit should stay Active, one should change to Standby. Voila!

 

 

 

 

I edited the instructions so as to clarify a few points about my simple configuration - not that anyone asked, I'm just feeling punchy.

I'm revisiting this, using licensed version of the VE, running v 10.2.2

 

 

When I follow these instructions, both machines go 'Active', and even when I select to force one to syandby, it quickly returns to active. Will this be the case until I configure floating IPaddresses, or have I missed something ?

 

 

Thanks !