Get message "One or more devices are unreachable" after configuring a High Availability pair
Using Big-IP Lab virtual edition version 11.5.1 Build 0.0.110
Although specifying a High Availability configuration via the Setup utility completes without errors, when navigating to Device Management -> Overview and clicking one of the devices, the following message appears:
One or more devices are unreachable. Resolve any communication problems before attempting to sync.
I suspect the problem was leaving all the OVF template Source Networks (Management, Internal, External, HA) all mapped to a single "Destination Network" when deploying the VMware template (at this stage only one network had been configured on the ESXi server), rather than trying to effectively perform this remapping with the VMware Edit settings dialogue and F5 Setup Utility after the deployment had completed and a second VMware network had been configured.
I realise I may need to reinstall the OVF templates from scratch (and request reactivation of the two licenses), but could someone kindly confirm the above explanation is a possible cause of the problem first?
The steps I actually followed were to remap Network Adapter 2 to VM Network 2 in the VMware Edit Settings dialogue for each F5 host, then run the Setup utility with the following setup options...
Internal Network Configuration
High Availability/Failover Method: Network
Self IP
Address 11.1.0.100
Netmask 255.255.255.0
Port Lockdown Allow Default
Floating IP
Address 11.1.0.50
Port Lockdown Allow Default
Internal VLAN configuration
VLAN Name internal
VLAN Tag ID auto
VLAN Interfaces
[moved Available item 1.1 to Tagged]
(Can see from Network -> Interfaces: Interface List that 1.1 has automatically received the MAC address for the 2nd ESXi network)
External VLAN configuration
Select existing VLAN
Select VLAN internal (ie reuse all attributes entered on Internal VLAN page)
High Availability VLAN configuration
Select existing VLAN
Select VLAN internal (ie reuse all attributes entered on Internal VLAN page)
Config Sync Configuration
[Accept default of:]
Local Address 11.1.0.102
Failover Unicast Configuration
[Accept defaults of:]
Local Address Port VLAN
11.1.0.102 1026 internal
137.72.93.53 1026 Management Address
Use Failover Multicast Address
[Leave unchecked]
Mirroring Configuration
Primary Local Mirror Address None
At this point I was unable to ping either host from the other.
I've successfully tested the 2nd VMware network by configuring it as a network between two RHEL6 hosts.
Thanks!