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mikand_61525
Jan 21, 2012Nimbostratus
jfrizzell: Thanks
Techgeeeg: No need to be upset when you ask for advice. I have seen others in this forum which successfully uploaded pictures in such way that one wont need to first manually download them in order to see them.
The good thing with diagram2 is that you will utilize LACP which will in total raise total throughput (but verify how the LACP hashing is performed and choose srcip+srcport+dstip+dstport to fully utilize all cables involved in the LACP-group - if you use standard which is just srcmac+dstmac then only one cable will be used between the F5 and each server (for all sessions)).
On the other hand you need to failover if switch1 dies and F5_1 was active for the moment (dies not only at connectivity level but can die from missconfiguration and other stuff aswell).
You seem to have 4 interfaces on your LTM's... is it possible for you to use all 4?
So the setup would be:
LTM01: int0
LACP (towards switch1)
LTM01: int1
LTM01: int2
LACP (towards switch2)
LTM01: int3
LTM02: int0
LACP (towards switch1)
LTM02: int1
LTM02: int2
LACP (towards switch2)
LTM02: int3
SW01: int47
LACP (towards switch2)
SW01: int48
SW02: int47
LACP (towards switch2)
SW02: int48