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jfrizzell_43066
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Jan 18, 2012

LTM Connection to Dual Switches

Hello Everyone,   I am hoping that someone can help me understand which connection type is best for F5. We currently have two F5's in an active/failover cluster. In our environment, we are going a...
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hoolio
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Jan 19, 2012
I'd suggest HA groups over VLAN failsafe as the former provides faster failover and more intelligence to prevent failover loops if both units experience the same failsafe event.

 

 

Manual Chapter: Understanding Fast Failover

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/tmos-redundant-systems-config-11-1-0/8.html?sr=18822521

 

 

Aaron