how to make a cluster with F5 2000 and F5 3600?

Mike, I imagine you're only option is network failover and not hardware cable.

Also, think you need TMOS 11.4 at least to have a device group with two different platform types.

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hi, nathan i have two doubt: 1. how to connect these two different failover ports? 2. how to make these two type F5 into a cluster?

For network failover u don't use these physical ports. You use one of the TMM interfaces, either one of the existing ones ie the internal self ip, or a dedicated one.

If you're using v11 then you create a device group to create the cluster. Askf5 should have the full instructions for your particular version.

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thank you , nathan, i want to make a cluster ,and i need to use heartbeat line to connect the two failover ports ,right ? do you know how to conncet these two different ports.

Why do you need to use failover cable instead of network failover???

Since version 10, network failover is fast enough to use it... As F5 does not provide a failover cable for mixed cluster, and hardware failover is only supported with provided by F5 cable, this will be an unsupported solution...

The only supported solution is Network Failover...

You have to be sure "Network failover" addresses are defined in "Device Management / Devices" for each devices...

Then in device-group parameters, check "Network failover" box...