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John_Meggers
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Feb 20, 2013

Node Failover

One of my co-workers is getting ready to do an installation of an appliance-based product that uses an active / standby redudant architecture (instead of load-balanced to active / active). I know I c...
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What_Lies_Bene1
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Feb 20, 2013
If you configure manual resume on the health monitor applied to the pool, node 1 will stay marked down until you manually enable it. Of course, if you do this you run the risk of node 2 going down before anyone has had a chance to resume a now healthy node 1.

 

 

This could all be moot of course. If the appliances have a failover mechanism, why not just have a single pool member pointing at whatever the failover shared IP is on the appliance 'cluster' and letting it decide?