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jdscrymgeour_42
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Apr 13, 2012

LTM redundancy failover

We have two units configured as active/standby however the only way we can see to force the units to failover if a VLAN/route goes offline is using the VLAN failsafe function, this presents an issue b...
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hoolio
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Apr 13, 2012
As Tolas said, you can use HA groups for more intelligent and faster failover compared with VLAN failsafe:

 

 

Understanding Fast Failover

 

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

 

 

Fail-Safe and Fast Failover

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/tmos-concepts-11-1-0/tmos_high_avail.html

 

 

Aaron