High Availability - Manual (VMware and AWS)

Description

In this lab, we will configure High Availability (Manual) for BIG-IQ CM. Refer to below AskF5 link if you need further details.

AskF5 Reference

Step 1: High Availability - Manual

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.

  1. Click System > BIG-IQ HA > Add Secondary and enter in the secondary device connectivity information

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    • Use self-ip of peer BIG-IQ. Depending on your network configuration you may use the management-ip instead.
    • Enter in admin and root password that you configured in the setup wizard (required)
    • Click Manual Failover

  2. Click Add to add the HA Peer Device

This completes the BIG-IQ High Availability (Manual) configuration.