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davelutz
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Feb 06, 2020

Split an HA pair

I currently have an HA pair setup that is in a single datacenter A and is only performing LTM. We are opening a second datacanter B and would like to split the pair between them and add DNS. My quest...
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James_Thomson
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Feb 18, 2020

There is no way to exactly accomplish what you are thinking. An HA pair of BIG-IP's need to logically act as a single BIG-IP, that is why the same IP's are required. I would split them and use the DNS GSLB functions to distribute traffic between the two sites.