Sayali
Aug 23, 2020Altocumulus
Virtual servers and traffic groups - Functional query
Hi,
I am quite a beginner with F5 so apologies if this question comes out very naive.
I am trying to understand how traffic groups work and how to go about configuring those for below scenario:
Configuration:
- Two VLANs - internal (for nodes - 192.168.10.0/24) and external (where client traffic incomes - 10.64.24.0/24)
- A static self-ip and floating-ip corresponding to each VLAN on each BIGIP device (On external VLAN - 10.64.24.5 is the floating IP)
- Nodes (subnet: 192.168.10.0/24)
Requirement:
- I need to have two virtual servers that uses different pool of nodes (but, all the same VLAN - internal)
- The two virtual servers will be in same external VLAN - 10.64.24.0/24 - and those two will by default be floating)
- My question is, if I want to achieve active-active HA (one virtual server remains active on one), I believe I will need to configure two traffic groups with relevant HA group parameters with individual virtual servers in it. But, which traffic group will the external VLAN floating self-ip (10.64.24.5) belong to? I am guessing that interface needs to be active for BIGIP to accept virtual server traffic.. but, how to achieve that when two virtual servers in same VLAN/subnet are expected to be active on different BIGIP nodes?
- Similarly, which traffic group will be internal VLAN floating self-ip belong to? Because the pool members belonging to different virtual servers (active on different BIGIP nodes) reside in same VLAN.
Do we require to break down VLANs to achieve this requirement?
Thanks :)