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SSHSSH_97332
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Aug 10, 2013

VIPRION with Multiple Blades

i have 2 VIPRION Boxes , each with 2 blades , i want to do the following :

 

connect physical connections only to one blade at each VIPRION , while i will leave the other blade with no interfaces ( except the management port )

 

is this doable ?

 

also i will establish HA cables between first blade at VIPRION1 & first Blade at VIPRION2 ... will not establish HA between the other 2 blades becsuae i want failover to depend on primary balde only .... is waht i'm doing doable ?

 

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  • SSHSSH_97332's avatar
    SSHSSH_97332
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    Aug 10, 2013
    i mean by that , i will leave the secondary blade at each VIPRION with no connections at alll ( even no HA connection ) ... just installed it to increase the throughput ?
  • nitass's avatar
    nitass
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    Aug 10, 2013
    connect physical connections only to one blade at each VIPRION , while i will leave the other blade with no interfaces ( except the management port )

    it is okay but if that blade is down, you will lose all connections.

     

     

    also i will establish HA cables between first blade at VIPRION1 & first Blade at VIPRION2 ... will not establish HA between the other 2 blades becsuae i want failover to depend on primary balde only

    i do not know but i feel it may not be the proper configuration. i think you can achieve this using ha-group (e.g. if interface on specific blade is down, do failover). anyway, i think it could work.

     

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    SSHSSH_97332
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    Aug 10, 2013
    But what are the other options i have , i have only one connection for Up link Router & One connection for Down link to the Core switch

     

    if using HA cables between secondary blades is mandatory , this means that i need to connect network ports to it as well ... which will not work at my case
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    nitass
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    Aug 10, 2013

    But what are the other options i have , i have only one connection for Up link Router & One connection for Down link to the Core switch if using HA cables between secondary blades is mandatory , this means that i need to connect network ports to it as well ... which will not work at my case

     

    understood. anyway, it is the best practice to configure failover multicast address or unicast mesh. so, i think it may be better to use ha-group or vlan failsafe to trigger failover when interface (trunk) is down or there is no traffic on vlan.

     

    sol13915: Configuring network failover for redundant VIPRION systems (11.x) http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/900/sol13915.html

     

    please be noted that there is a known issue on vlan failsafe in 11.1.0, 11.2.0 and 11.2.1.

     

    sol14022: The BIG-IP system may fail to activate the VLAN failsafe action http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/14000/000/sol14022.html