Can I failover from one load balancer to another load balancer in another datacentre?
Hello all,
I'd like to know if this is possible. I have a primary data centre and a secondary datacentre, all services are for internal users (no internet users).
I'm thinking I'll have one load balancer in the primary DC and another in the secondary DC, both load balancers will direct traffic to the primary DC most of the time but they can both direct traffic to the secondary DC if needed. Each DC has it's own subnet, we haven't set up BGP, route failover, VRRP or anything like that, we currently just switch DNS CNAMEs to flip from one DC to another.
What I'm after is to be able to publish just one entry point for clients but I also want to protect against one load balancer or site going down without having to revert to manually changing DNS CNAMEs.
I've attached a diagram to try and explain what I'd like to achieve. Is this possible? Would an LTM help me achieve this?
Thanks.