Configuring the SLB Topology Example
SLB Configuration Guidelines and Prerequisites
Configuring the SLB-L2 Topology Example
Sample SLB-L2 Topology Example
Conditions for a Member Participating in Load Distribution
Set the Traffic Distribution Policy
Restore the Default Traffic Distribution Policy
View the Traffic Distribution Policy
Restore the Default Traffic Distribution Policy
Restore the Default Failover Method
Creating Example SLB Configurations
Creating a Basic SLB Configuration
Save the Current Configuration
Creating a Separate VLAN SLB Configuration
Separate VLAN SLB Configuration
Configuration With Separate VLANs Steps
Save the Current Configuration
Creating a Multiple SLB Group Configuration
Multiple-SLB-Group Configuration
Configuration With Multiple SLB Groups Steps
Set Up the Servers in SLB Group 1
Set Up the Servers in SLB Group 2
Save the Current Configuration
Restart the Server Following Failure
Creating SLB-L2 Configuration Examples
Bump-In-The-Wire Configuration
Creating a Single-Switch Configuration
Basic Single-Switch Configuration
Create a Single-Switch Configuration
Creating a Dual-Switch Configuration
Create a Dual-Switch Configuration
These guidelines and prerequisites apply to SLB-L2 configurations:
Set up as many as 16 servers per SLB group.
Establish up to two SLB groups.
For bump-in-the-wire configurations, you must directly connect servers to switch ports within an SLB-L2 group.
Ensure that SLB and SLB-L2 switch ports do not overlap.
Set up only one traffic distribution hash policy on a switch. If the application requires running SLB and SLB-L2 at the same time, the policy must be chosen carefully to work with both SLB and SLB-L2. In such configurations, you must use the slb l2 policy command to set up a policy that works with both SLB and SLB-L2. When L2 fields are in the hash policy (for example, src-mac, dest-mac, type, vlan-id, vlan-pri, or l2-sym), they will only be recognized by SLB-L2. SLB ignores these L2 fields settings.