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Gurdip_Sira_160
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Oct 09, 2014

Some deployment questions in a virtualised environment

Hi,   I have the F5 LTM lab deployed as a VM on my single Hyper-V 2012 R2 server.   I want to now configure this and the initial steps ask for vlans. At the moment, the environment does not use...
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Gurdip_Sira_160
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Oct 09, 2014

That's a really helpful link!

 

It's explained some of the things.

 

However, I still need to know, what a floating ip is?

 

So my self IP should be an IP outside of the subnet of the servers I want to load balance it seems. And the vlan and its settings in the same subnet as the load balanced servers.

 

Looks like I did that the wrong way around!

 

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    nathe
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    Oct 09, 2014
    A floating self IP is an IP address shared across two devices in an Active/Standby setup. It floats between the two and is "logically" located on the one that is currently Active. Re Self IPs, you would configure a self IP on a configured VLAN (and associated interface). You can, of course, have your load balanced servers on a different subnet (although you'll need to configure a route) but a familiar practice is the load balanced servers (pool members) are in a particular subnet which is in the same subnet as the self IP.