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anerkar_316061
Historic F5 Account
Apr 20, 2017

HA between hardware and software/virtual edition.

Is new version of BIG-IP support HA between Hardware device and Software (virtual edition) ? is any drawbacks in HA function while using this Heterogeneous environment (i.e HA between hardware and vi...
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PSilva
Ret. Employee
Apr 24, 2017

Hi Abhay~ Pretty sure you can but there are some requirements.

 

See: K8665: BIG-IP redundant configuration hardware and software parity requirements

 

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K8665

 

Beginning in BIG-IP 11.4.0, F5 supports redundant devices in a device group on different hardware or virtual platforms through the load-aware failover feature

 

Hope that helps.

 

ps