Mar 27, 2026 - For details about updated CVE-2025-53521 (BIG-IP APM vulnerability), refer to K000156741.

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Mubasher_Sultan
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12 years ago

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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Techgeeeg
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12 years ago

Both have the same purpose to switch the Active unit in case of failure, Hardware fail-over will take action when one of the hardware fails where as the Network Fail-over comes into play if the particular network link fails.

 

  • Abed_AL-R's avatar
    Abed_AL-R
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    7 years ago

    so , if you use hardware failover or network failover , in both cases both machine willl assume the active role in case of failure ? what happened in case both machines back to work ? which machine will become active and which standby ? based on the uptime ? Thanks