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gurkha
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NimbostratusStandalone F5 Device Synchronization
How is it possible to synchronize between two standalone Big IP devices? I have previously worked in Active- Standby mode and synchronization in this type of deployment is straight forward. I recentl...
Hi Gurkha,
In F5 DNS you can't configure active/standby deployment... but as you said you install 2 Bigips in two different DCs to work as an active/active.
IF you're using F5 DNS GSLB or even using BIGIP DNS local BIND Technique you will be able to synchronize between the two devices.
What I want to say if you use GSLB ( Wide-ips , VSs , Servers , DCs , monitors .. ) these objects are exists in bigip_gtm.conf which can be synchronized between two or more devices in active-active scenario.
Also you can synchronize local bind Zones if you configure BIND.
If you're using DNS Express or caching you can't sync Configs or Zones to the other device.
I hope you get my point.. let me what you're going to configure to be able help you more ...
gurkhaHi , thanks for the reply.
We already are using DNS Domain Delegation our authoritative DNS is F5 XC and from there we have create a CNAME, NS pointing towards on-premise DC. One of the NS is towards DC1 and the other is towards DC2.
As Big IP DNS was pretty new to me I was in the phase of understanding it. I am slowly getting the hang of it.