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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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Mubasher_Sultan
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Dec 19, 2013

Hi,

 

Thanks for the article to refer.

 

But, i want to understand that which features or benefits we have in network Failover to use?

 

As they mention in the articles; "Important: Even if you configure hardwired failover, communication over the network is necessary for certain features to function properly, for example, the communication that occurs over the network during failover mirroring."

 

Can you please explain it briefly?