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A BIG-IP Administrator creates a new VLAN on BIG-IP Cluster Member A and attaches an Interface to it. Although the Auto Config Sync is in place, the new VLAN does NOT show up on Cluster Member B…

The correct answer is A. Configure the new VLAN manually on Cluster Member B. Even with Auto Config Sync enabled, physical interface assignments to VLANs are device-specific and require manual configuration on each BIG-IP cluster member.

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Question

A BIG-IP Administrator creates a new VLAN on BIG-IP Cluster Member A and attaches an Interface to it. Although the Auto Config Sync is in place, the new VLAN does NOT show up on Cluster Member B. What should the BIG-IP Administrator do to ensure the new VLAN is configured on each Cluster Member?

Options

  • AConfigure the new VLAN manually on Cluster Member B.
  • BReset the Device Trust of the BIG-IP Cluster on either Cluster Member.
  • CConfigure a Default Route for the new VLAN on Cluster Member A.
  • DEnable the Interface that is attached to the new VLAN on Cluster Member A.

How the community answered

(29 responses)
  • A
    52% (15)
  • B
    28% (8)
  • C
    14% (4)
  • D
    7% (2)

Why each option

Even with Auto Config Sync enabled, physical interface assignments to VLANs are device-specific and require manual configuration on each BIG-IP cluster member.

AConfigure the new VLAN manually on Cluster Member B.Correct

In an F5 BIG-IP High Availability (HA) cluster, while logical network objects like VLAN definitions (name, ID, tag) can be synchronized via Config Sync, the physical interface assignment to a VLAN is considered device-specific configuration. Each BIG-IP device has its own unique set of physical interfaces, and therefore, the mapping of a VLAN to a specific physical interface must be configured locally on each cluster member.

BReset the Device Trust of the BIG-IP Cluster on either Cluster Member.

Resetting the Device Trust of the BIG-IP Cluster is an drastic action that would break HA communication and is not a solution for synchronizing device-specific VLAN interface assignments.

CConfigure a Default Route for the new VLAN on Cluster Member A.

Configuring a default route for the new VLAN is a Layer 3 routing configuration task and does not address the Layer 2 issue of the VLAN's presence or interface assignment on Cluster Member B.

DEnable the Interface that is attached to the new VLAN on Cluster Member A.

Enabling the interface on Cluster Member A ensures it is active on that device, but it does not synchronize the physical VLAN-to-interface mapping to Cluster Member B, which has its own independent physical interfaces.

Concept tested: BIG-IP HA Config Sync scope for network objects

Source: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K15017

Topics

#Config Sync#High Availability#VLANs#network configuration#device-specific configuration

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