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Feb 03, 2019

HA with vcmp guests

HI, I have followed the F5 procedure to create an HA cluster between 2 vcmp guests. all was good, except at the end, the member that was supposed to be the standby one, was actually the active one. t...
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Feb 08, 2019

SOLVED! It turned out that the new vcmp had a clock 30s ahead of the primary vcmp. Since the auto-sync is based on the first commit date/time, this new vcmp synchronized its empty config to the primary vcmp and therefore wiped out all the content.

 

to prevent this type of behavior, make sure the ntp is configured and synchronized on all members, then uncheck the auto-sync. hope this helps.

 

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