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Gurdip_Sira_160
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusSome deployment questions in a virtualised environment
Hi,
I have the F5 LTM lab deployed as a VM on my single Hyper-V 2012 R2 server.
I want to now configure this and the initial steps ask for vlans. At the moment, the environment does not use...
Gurdip_Sira_160Nimbostratus
NimbostratusThat's a really helpful link!
It's explained some of the things.
However, I still need to know, what a floating ip is?
So my self IP should be an IP outside of the subnet of the servers I want to load balance it seems. And the vlan and its settings in the same subnet as the load balanced servers.
Looks like I did that the wrong way around!
natheCirrocumulus
A floating self IP is an IP address shared across two devices in an Active/Standby setup. It floats between the two and is "logically" located on the one that is currently Active. Re Self IPs, you would configure a self IP on a configured VLAN (and associated interface). You can, of course, have your load balanced servers on a different subnet (although you'll need to configure a route) but a familiar practice is the load balanced servers (pool members) are in a particular subnet which is in the same subnet as the self IP.
