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Josh_41258
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Sep 30, 2013

LTM+ASM On DIfferent BIG-IPs

Is there a deployment guide for v11 that discusses the best practices when deploying LTM and ASM on separate BIG-IP devices?   I see this for v10: http://www.f5.com/pdf/deployment-guides/big-ip-lt...
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Sec-Enabled_658
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Sep 30, 2013

The external pool actually has two pool members, as the ASMs are running as standalone asm devices. So either asm can process the traffic at any time. The asm vip LB's to a pool that has one member as the LTM is running as active/standby mode.

 

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    Josh_41258
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    Sep 30, 2013
    Ok, gotcha. So, if your ASM's go down, you won't be able to process traffic, correct? That is why I was considering using priority groups on the external LTM to send directly to the LTM if ASM goes boom.