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Nimbostratusroute-domains/partitions inside a vCMP guest
We're migrating from an ACE module with many contexts to a bigip that can only have four vCMP guests. The box will also perform other tasks like vpn, and web-app firewall. I'd like to create one vCMP for just LTM - and break out the ACE contexts inside of it using partitions and route-domains. Is this pretty common deployment?
Our network have VRFs and different vlans in front of and in back of the box, so one single route-domain would not work for us without changing around the network-side.
I know people use route-domains when they want to use duplicate IP addressing, which is not a requirement for us. The different partitions/RDs would be prod, beta, qa, etc...
thanks,
2 Replies
Brad_ParkerCirrus
Yep, perfectly valid. We actually do just that when transitioning from ACE to F5. Context = Partition w/Route Domain. Just create partitions with the same names as your ace contexts if you want and create a route domain to be its default route domain. tmsh modify auth partition default-route-domain .
tatmotivCirrostratus
If you want to enable each "context" to failover individually, you should also add a dedicated traffic-group to each partition / route domain pair.
