disabling a blade in a Viprion expected behavior

Brian, when you disable the blade i believe the interfaces are downed so traffic will cease to get to the guest itself and, I imagine, connections will drop. That's if the guest is single blade of course. If the guest is on multiple blades then if you've configured intra-cluster mirroring at a guest level and then virtual server connection mirroring then this should keep the connections up and running via the other blade. The VS used to have to be a fastL4 type, would need to confirm if this is still the case.

If you have multiple hosts and the guest has a peer on a second host then, with inter-cluster mirroring, if the device fails over then the connections should, again, be persisted across the blades. Not sure if only fastl4 VSs are still required.

Be good to get confirmation on that.

Anyway, hope this helps,

N

I would recommend that you plan for total loss of connections on the blade that is being disabled.

Mirroring involves - Connection & Persistence Mirroring. For Viprion Systems, there is intra & inter cluster mirroring that adds another layer of complexity.

Intra Clustering mirroring doesn't work for L7 traffic (10.x) Inter Clustering mirroring will only work when you have 2 chassis with identical number of blades in the identical slots.

Given, the number of variables, I would say you should plan for total loss of connection on that blade.

Link for Viprion Mirroring (10.x)