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sandy16
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Aug 04, 2012

Partitions and route domains?

Hi, I am implementing route domains in our environment on 2 x 1600 ltm in an active/standby pair. I am planning to use different route domains in the same "common" partition instead of creating different partition for each route domain. Reason being as this is not a multi-tenancy setup and i do not need to provide different access roles, priviliges to different partitions.

 

 

Can anyone please let me know if there are any issues for this type of design? Will I face any issues in the long run in terms of failover?

 

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6 Replies

  • Ferg_104721's avatar
    Ferg_104721
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    Aug 10, 2012
    Have you had a read of

     

     

    http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/tmos-ip-routing-administration-11-2-0/2.html

     

    search - The default route domain for partition Common

     

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    http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/tmos_management_guide_10_1/tmos_route_domains.html1042211

     

    search - Additional route domain considerations

     

     

    as long as you plan out your traffic profile/considerarions correctly, I would assume not.

     

  • AjayPra_161698's avatar
    AjayPra_161698
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    Jun 23, 2014

    Hi sandevsingh ,

     

    Did you implement this as you stated in your post ??

     

    Any issues you faced .

     

    I am planning for same type of setup.

     

    Regards

     

    • sandy16's avatar
      sandy16
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      Jun 25, 2014
      Hi Struggler, we did not go with this design. In my opinion, only use route domains/RD if you have overlapping ip addresses. (In case of multi-tenancy setup). When I was trying to implement this, I found out that you can have only 1 RD per partition. There is a one-to-one relationship between a RD and a partition. So we decided to skip this altogether, just to make things simple.
    • AjayPra_161698's avatar
      AjayPra_161698
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      Jun 25, 2014
      Ok Thanks for your feedback.. i am planning to create 3 route domains in common partition . I will have single HA vlan between two LTM pair in default route-domain 0. I will create three traffic-groups and bind those with respective route-domains . Regards
    • AjayPra_161698's avatar
      AjayPra_161698
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      Jun 25, 2014
      It may be the version issue . I have seen posts here in Devcentral where people created multiple route domains in common partition
  • AjayPra_161698's avatar
    AjayPra_161698
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    Jun 25, 2014

    Following is the note in the documentation:

     

    If you want to segment traffic into multiple route domains, you can create additional route domains in partition Common and then segment application traffic among those route domains. http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/tmos-ip-routing-administration-11-2-0/2.html