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High Availability (VMware and AWS)
Description
In this lab, we will configure High Availability for BIG-IQ CM. Refer to below AskF5 link if you need further details.
Step 1: High Availability
For the high availability pair to synchronize properly, each system must be running the same BIG-IQ version, and the clocks on each system must be synchronized to within 60 seconds.
Click System > BIG-IQ HA > Add Secondary and enter in the secondary device connectivity information

- Use self-ip of peer BIG-IQ
- Enter in root password that you configured in the setup wizard (required)
Click OK to add the HA Peer Device

This completes the BIG-IQ High Availability configuration.