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Jason_387767
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Apr 04, 2019

Two production data centers and just purchased two i5800's

Hi all, just purchased two i5800's with LTM/APM, and have some questions regarding placement. We have two production data centers with a few vlans being stretched across using OTV. There's a 10GB lin...
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youssef1
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Apr 05, 2019

Hi,

 

in general we place one equipment by datacenter. the advantage of having a DRP/anoter DC is to having 2 completely independent sites. in case of problems on a site (even the worst problem: fire). the other can take over without problem.

 

For me the best alternative is to have one equipment in each site (that's what we did for all our customers and it's the best practice to adopt).

 

Regarding HA between your equipment:

 

Ed Summers message: Network failover is a heartbeat sent via IP and can be treated as any other network traffic. Depending on network conditions you may need to tune the timeout value (default = 3 seconds)...but 3 seconds is, relatively speaking, a long time. Just consider your overall HA strategy.

 

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K2397

 

Regards