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Akhtar_109015
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Oct 05, 2013

High Availability Best Practices

Hi, I have configured device groups with both options 'SYNC-FAILOVER & SYNC-ONLY', & a traffic group; config sync & failover seems to be working fine. I want to know is there any thing else like vlan...
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rob_carr
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Oct 06, 2013

"What is the best practice option for failover to work properly? I feel VLAN failsafe based failover will be bit slow because it will check the traffic flowing and then ARPs the gateway etc etc which takes time..."

 

You only really need to use VLAN failsafe if the devices in your high availability configuration are connected to different switches/routers, so check the physical layout of your network before deciding to implement this feature.