New LTM setup question

Hi Jaylaval,

 

 

from reading your description I am wondering if Gateway Failsafe is more appropriate to your needs? I have struggled to find a concise overview of Gateway failsafe but the Netork & Systems management guides contain some info.

 

 

For example:

 

 

version 9.4:

 

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/bigip_nsm_guide_943/nsm_high_avail.html1012058

 

 

version 10.1:

 

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/tmos_management_guide_10_1/tmos_high_avail.html1012058

 

 

 

From personal experience most of the trunking setups I have seen use the ethernet (rather than sfp) ports but I am not aware of anything that would prevent you creating an sfp trunk.

 

 

Trunknig is usually best thought of as 'port redundancy' (e.g. 1.1 and 1.2 are in a trunk to switch1, Interface 1.1 goes down but 1.2 is still up and available to service the traffic) and VLAN or gateway failsafe is usually best thought of as 'device redundancy' (in the case of gateway failsafe it can even be considered 'path redundancy').

 

To make matters more complicated, you can of course use a combination of trunking and vlan/gateway failsafe.

 

 

I hope this helps but if you can't use the links I have posted or you have more questions, then do post here and I'll answer as soon as I can.

 

 

 

Chris