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Mark_Cloutier's avatar
Mark_Cloutier
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Apr 15, 2015

vCMP and failover

I am using vCMP for the first time, just purchased two 5250v's to support a migration to Exchange/Lync. Very experienced with LTMs, have used them for almost 16 years now. Basic question, should I ...
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tatmotiv
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Apr 16, 2015

There is actually no benefit in putting the vCMP Hosts into a device or traffic group. You won't have the same configuration items on them (they're supposed to run different vCMP guests), nor will they serve any "shared" objects like floating IPs or virtuals. You should run each of your vCMP hosts as independent stand-alone machine and then tie the vCMP guests together using device-groups.