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Bciesz_171056
Cirrus
CirrusHA soft switchover with session persistence
Hi, Is there a way to maintain open sessions during a switchover from active to standby (I don't mean a failover, when the switch is more or less forced, i mean a situation, when I make the standby F5 go active). What I want to achieve is to keep open connections on the previously active F5 and open all new ones on the actual active. So after some time I'd be able to do my maintenance on a completely traffic free device without clients having noticed anything.
I looked into session mirroring, but this will not work for me, since Active and Standby are in separate data centers
- Kai_Wilke
MVP
Hi cieszewski,
you can not soft-failover any "new established connections" to a second unit, while draining the currently active connection on the previous unit.
But you may want to configure LTMs connection- and persistence mirroring features and then perform a regular-failover from one cluster unit to another, while still keeping your existing connections established.
Cheers, Kai
