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Phil_Wedel_7401
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Nov 06, 2014

VIPRION Chassis / Guest fail-over

I have a question about a potential VIPRION deployment.

 

Currently we have a pair of 3600’s in our production Data Center and a pair of 3600’s in our Test/Dev Data Center. We’d like to replace this with a single VIPRION chassis in our production data center, and a single VIPRION chassis in our test/dev data center.

 

Here is the question. Can I have two guests on each chassis, with one guest active on one chassis and the other guest active on the other chassis? With failover?

 

Is this done with separate traffic groups? We have plenty of bandwidth between the data centers to facilitate anything we need.

 

Thanks!

 

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  • nathe's avatar
    nathe
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    Nov 06, 2014

    Phil. In short Yes you can do this and this is controlled by separate traffic groups. Failover could also be set up too...as long as the virtual IPs were accessible at the other DC. A stretched vlan perhaps.

     

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  • Phil_Wedel_7401's avatar
    Phil_Wedel_7401
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    Nov 06, 2014

    Thanks, do the chassis get configured in Active / Active then? I read a paragraph saying this wasn't recommended...Or are they stand-alone with traffic groups managing configs and fail-over? I was planning to stretch he vlan.

     

    Thanks for the help so far.

     

    • nathe's avatar
      nathe
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      Nov 06, 2014
      Chassis standalone as u say. Guests deal with HA
  • shaggy's avatar
    shaggy
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    Nov 06, 2014

    In regards to multiple HA pairs of vCMP guests, failover is simply handled by each vCMP HA configuration, each HA pair having its own set of traffic-groups. Each vCMP guest HA pair is an independent pair of virtual BIGIPs, so you can configure the environment so one VIPRION has one HA pair's active vCMP guest and the other VIPRION has the other HA pair's active vCMP guest.