[f-nsp] Getting started with ServerIron 4G

[Chris Price]

Yes, I figured out the server source-ip-standby in the past hour and it 
works well.

How do I configure virtual servers and real servers to fail over between 
the nodes? My SI's fail over, but teh virtual and real servers dont.

Thanks!

Gerald Krause wrote:
> On Thursday 31 January 2008 21:35:25 Chris Price wrote:
>   
>> OK so maybe I'm in too far and made some assumptions that are confusing
>> people.
>>
>> I want to start with a simple HA scenario, an active and a standby SI.
>>
>> The SI's, the VIP's and the real servers are all on the same subnet.
>> Real servers will use the SI 'cluster' as its default gateway to not
>> have to do DSR.
>>
>> How can I setup a pair of serverirons in a active-standby pair in such a
>> way that if the active node fails, all services being provided by that
>> node fail over to the standby node seamlessly and without intervention.
>> This includes real servers, vip's, IP's used by Reals as the default
>> gateway,. etc.
>>     
>
> I haven't do this yet but according the `ServerIron TrafficWorks Server Load 
> Balancing Guide` on page 7-4 you have to use the 'Standard Hot Standby' 
> method via the "server backup/server source-standby-ip/server source-ip" 
> configuration commands. VRRP is available with the optional L3 upgrade only. 
>
> Hope that helps.
>
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