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Roy_Jee
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusSession/Connection Management during a Failover event in a HA Peer
Hi, Can any one explain during a failover event when secondary unit takes lead as primary how it handles sessions and on going connections,is there any stateful awareness managed at any layer as swi...
This is a good question. It all really depends on the application.
By default we do not mirror any connection information. In short, afte a failover, the standby device (now active) just starts ARPing for the destination IP and it will process connection accordingly.
Most modern web application, just open a new connection to the new active device and continue as needed. So that may be why your seeing everything work pretty well during a failover.
As for timing, this depends on the failure. If it's a user induced failover, it should be pretty seamless, possibly a second or two pause. But if this is more of a network failure and the devices don't have a direct failover link, it could take up to 90 seconds. Most of the time it's about 10-30 seconds.
CA_Valli
MVP
MVPBIG-IP is capable of syncroniziing connection, persistence and SSL information to the peer unit so that traffic information is already present when the cluster fails over.
This requires you to setup an IP address on every device for this purpose (and optionally, a secondary mirror IP) which will be used to establish this mirroring channel.
https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K84303332
https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K17391
Roy_JeeNimbostratus
NimbostratusTHanks for replying . But my query is about default behaviour of F5 HA as if we havent enable mirroring at any level .How much time secondary unit takes to recover failover/will secondary unit be aware of the ongoing sessions ?