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dabance
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Jun 23, 2019

BIP-IP HA on Azure Cloud

i have been going through some article on implementing BIG-IP (LTM) HA on Azure cloud, however i am stumbled upon contradictory statements where one says Azure loadbalancer is required to achieve B...
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Jim_M's avatar
Jim_M
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Jul 01, 2020

Hi Kai. You mention

" In this setup each Virtual Server is simply configured with an /31 network mask (aka. two subsequent IPs for each VS) and each of the VE units is listening to just one of those /31 IPs (via additional Virtual Machine IPs)"

 

Is there a good document that details best practice about how to do this? Including config of any required load balancer or traffic manager?

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Jeff_Giroux_F5
Ret. Employee
Jul 01, 2020

My video is general and doesn't really depend on number of NICs. If you need 2 NIC, you can check out my Azure BIG-IP Terraform repo. It also builds out the necessary example VIPs for HA via LB templates (ex. 0.0.0.0/0 VIP).

 

There are many ways to carve out the VIPs with varying masks as long as the Azure LB has the right backend targets and ports. It all depends on how you want to manage the virtual server naming and standards in your environment.

 

https://github.com/JeffGiroux/f5_terraform/tree/master/Azure

*note, most deployments use 2nic BIG-IP but I'm currently in process to update repo to 3nic. It's easier for people to delete code than figure out what to add.