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MW1's avatar
MW1
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May 13, 2010

Switching from direct cable link HA to network linked HA

All,   I have a pair of F5 LTM's in active/passive HA mode using a directly connected cable between them which have been ticking away without issue. When I first installed them I tried to configu...
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hoolio's avatar
hoolio
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May 18, 2010
Hi MW,

 

 

If you have a dedicated link (untrunked) between the two units which you use only for network failover, you could conceivably bring that up, set the new unit to standby and then bring up the other links/vlans without any downtime. You could try to do this with no downtime/effect on live traffic, but I would suggest scheduling a maintenance window anyhow.

 

 

If there is no official support for HA in the virtual edition, I don't think it would be a valid test.

 

 

Aaron