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Chris_Phillips
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Sep 28, 2010

GTM instead of LTM HA

Hi,     I'm looking at deploying a new environment with dedicated 6900 LTMs and have concerns about the single point of failure they represent in an HA config. Sure it's "HA" and it's two machin...
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Chris_Phillips
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Sep 28, 2010
If there is a level of LTM HA then it would be primarily serial, no issues there. Are there significant downsides from the GTM perspective of this? Is there a view from which it can be seen that this isn't really adding anything, and could be reducing the resilience? It's more software, more complexity etcetera, and the wide ip stuff, which I've no expereince of, is still surely in some way a single point of failure.

 

 

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