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cjunior_138458
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AltostratusHard-wired Failover 4000 series and 8900 series
It is possible that between these two devices? What about the pinout of cable. Tks!
Hi Claudio,
For hardware failover, the systems must be running the same hardware: http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/8000/600/sol8665.html?sr=35248250
Starting from v11.4.x, the software failover can be configured between heterogenous devices: http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/tmos-implementations-11-5-0/6.html?sr=35248250
Those 2 devices you're mentioning don't have the same hardware architecture, capabilities, etc. So assuming you'd be able to hack this, and you have all your connections going to the 8900, if it fails and all traffic moves the 4000 series, it's a different number of TMMs, different architecture processing your traffic, which may very well break. I would strongly advise against this and I don't think it's an F5 supported config.
Cheers!
Hi Claudio,
For hardware failover, the systems must be running the same hardware: http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/8000/600/sol8665.html?sr=35248250
Starting from v11.4.x, the software failover can be configured between heterogenous devices: http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/tmos-implementations-11-5-0/6.html?sr=35248250
Those 2 devices you're mentioning don't have the same hardware architecture, capabilities, etc. So assuming you'd be able to hack this, and you have all your connections going to the 8900, if it fails and all traffic moves the 4000 series, it's a different number of TMMs, different architecture processing your traffic, which may very well break. I would strongly advise against this and I don't think it's an F5 supported config.
Cheers!