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Mubasher_Sultan
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Dec 19, 2013

Need to Understand the Hardware (Serial) Failover Vs Network Failover in F5 - LTM v11.3?

Hi Folks,   I had a version 10.2 with Hardware Failover and now we upgraded the system to 11.3 HF8.   We had a hardware failover enabled only. When we planned to upgrade into 11.3, we got the r...
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mimlo_61970
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Dec 19, 2013

See this article for a good description of the two.

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/2000/300/sol2397.html?sr=34012910

 

Pay attention to the portion that states if you use both, the hardwire supercedes the network.

 

Inspite of the recomendations, I have been using network failover exclusively since 9.4. Initially this was based on distance, but more recently I have just come to trust it.