Question about ACE 4710 multiple contexts

[Juan Pablo Hidalgo Villacres]

Hi,

I have two ACE working on active-standby mode,

I have one context configured on bridge mode, with two vlans, the client (vlan 100) and server (vlan 101) sides.

I need to balance another service for two servers (different from the ones on the first context ) on the vlan 101, so as the documentacion says i can't configure the same vlan on another context because it is already configured on the 1st context as bridge... so my question is the only way i could balance this service is to configure it on the same context??. or there is another way?.

These are the design limitations that i have to do this:

1.- I can't change the servers IP address.

2.- The VIP which will answer the clients request is on the same IP network segment as the servers, for example:

server1: 192.168.100.125, server2: 192.168.100.126, VIP: 192.168.100.124

Thanks for your suggestions,

regards,

Juan Pablo Hidalgo

[venkatkr]

HI Juan,

What you have read is correct. If you are using 101 and 100 vlan in bridge mode then neither vlans can be used in any other context. if you can change the design to routed mode then you can create another context and reuse the vlan.

This way you will be able to create different context for easier manageblity. If not then you need to see the same context.

Hope this helps

VK