
Table of Contents
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Table of Contents
Introducing the BIG-IP and VMware vMotion deployment guide
Prerequisites and configuration notes ................................................................................. 1
Product versions and revision history ................................................................................. 2
Configuration details ................................................................................................................ 3
Managing VM hosts, VM storage and client traffic between data centers during
vMotion events ............................................................................................................................... 6
Components to be managed by automation ...................................................................... 6
Configuration table ................................................................................................................... 7
Configuring the primary data center BIG-IP system ................................................10
Creating the VLANs ............................................................................................................... 10
Creating self IP addresses .....................................................................................................10
Configuring the application-specific objects on the BIG-IP system ............................. 11
Configuring the WAN optimization module ....................................................................12
Configuring the Remote Endpoints .................................................................................... 13
Confirming outbound connections are allowed .............................................................. 14
Advertising local networks ................................................................................................... 14
Configuring EtherIP ................................................................................................................15
Configuring the VLAN group for failover BIG-IP pairs .................................................. 16
Configuring the secondary data center BIG-IP system ............................................ 18
Creating the VLANs ............................................................................................................... 18
Creating the self IP addresses .............................................................................................. 18
Configuring the WAN optimization module ....................................................................18
Configuring the remote endpoints ..................................................................................... 18
Confirming outbound connections are allowed .............................................................. 18
Advertising local networks ................................................................................................... 19
Configuring EtherIP ................................................................................................................19
Configuring the BIG-IP GTM ................................................................................................ 20
Creating the data centers ..................................................................................................... 20
Creating the monitor ............................................................................................................. 20
Creating the GTM servers .................................................................................................... 20
Creating the GTM pool .........................................................................................................21
Creating a wide IP on the GTM .......................................................................................... 22
Configuring the VMware infrastructure .......................................................................... 23
Modifying the VMware ESX configuration ........................................................................ 23
Appendix A: Test results ......................................................................................................... 26
Testing methodology ............................................................................................................. 26
Appendix B: Frequently asked questions and deployment considerations .... 28
Appendix C: Configuration worksheet .............................................................................31
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