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bugslayerx
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Nov 21, 2023

Offline (Enabled) - The children pool member(s) are down

Hi, new to F5. I am going through the F5 101 course. Currently using Udemy. I have an ESXI setup. I have created my F5 virtual machine and have successfully connected to the Big-IP console. I have se...
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  • mihaic's avatar
    mihaic
    Nov 22, 2023

    In that case, it means the F5 can not ping your VM. So something is wrong with your config or ESXi.

    Do you have 2 F5 in HA?

    have you tried this:

    https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K31552842

    " I am able to ping the virtual server IP successfully from the F5 cli as well as a windows virtual machine on my ESXI that is connected to the same network. "

    You should not have the VMs and the Virtual servers on the same network. This can work if you use SNAT (snat pool from a different range).

    Usually, you have a network for Virtual servers (front end) and one for VMs (back end).

    I have this on my ESXi host, and it is working for me:

     

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mihaic
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I see that your pool members use port 80 and the monitor you are using is TCP.

So the question is are your members listening on port 80? Have you some sort of webserver installed?

You could change the monitor to ICMP and test if your pool becomes available.

 

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bugslayerx
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Nov 22, 2023

Members are listening on port 80. I changed the monitor to ICMP and still nothing.