HP SuperStack 3 Load Balancer Appliance Settings, Enter 25 in the Virtual router ID a field

Setting Redundancy Settings 51

Active-Active Device Active-Active device allocation can only be performed when the Server Allocation Load Balancer has been configured to be redundant and active-active.

The Active-Active device allocation page allows you to allocate which services are currently active on the two redundant Server Load Balancers. You can allocate FTP to one Server Load Balancer and HTTP to the other. The two Server Load Balancers each provide only the allocated services, until a failover occurs.

To setup up a active-active device allocation, complete the following steps:

1Click Logical View on the Toolbar.

2Select Server Load Balancing > Active-Active Device. The Active-Active Device Allocation page is displayed.

3Choose the virtual host(s) you wish to change the position of.

4Click on the host and then click the appropriate arrow.

You are now ready to configure the load balancing services. See Chapter 8 Configuring for Load Balancing.

Setting	Whether you are configured for non-redundant or redundant server load
Redundancy	balancing, if there are multiple Server Load Balancers, the Virtual Router
Settings	Identifier (VRID) for each device must be unique or the service may not
	come up and one of the other Server Load Balancers declares itself the
	primary device.
	To enter a unique number for the VRID, complete the following steps:
1	Click Logical View on the Toolbar.
2	Select Server Load Balancing > Redundancy Setting in the Navigation
	Tree. The Redundancy Settings page is displayed.
3	Enter 25 in the Virtual router ID A field.
4	Enter 26 in the Virtual router ID B field.
5	Click OK.