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Thompso7540_201
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Jan 12, 2016

cabling for bigip 5250v

We are setting up our two 5250v's. We want to use 10Gb link aggregation to the network and also active/standby HA.

 

I read on a whitepaper that you should use both direct and network failover methods. I was planning on connecting them from failover-to-failover, and then connecting them layer 2 together through our network using port 1.4. I know the failover port requires a crossover.

 

Does this sound okay?

 

My VAR was saying to directly connect them with two different links, though; so i'm not sure whether that's the better method.

 

For the front-end trunks i'm going to trunk all the client/server-side vlans i need and break them out in the bigip w/ vlans. We're planning on using vcmps/route-domains/ and partitions for the different prod, beta, and qa environments. The 10Gb connections will be back-to-back VPC to two different cisco nexus 7018's.

 

thank you

 

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  • Brad_Parker's avatar
    Brad_Parker
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    Jan 12, 2016

    Since you will be using vCMP the serial failover will not work. I would recommend setting up a dedicated HA VLAN using a dedicate port/VPC either through your switch or directly cabled. Since you are planning on VPC, switch failure isn't a huge concern for failover if you have the extra cabling and almost makes it so you don't need VLAN failsafe since your HA network will be possibly traversing the same switch.