ACE High Availability

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To provide high availability in the data center, you can configure two ACE devices in fault-tolerant mode. In this mode, these two devices work together as active-standby peers and exchange configuration and state information. The active device serves the clients, and if the active device fails, the standby becomes active, and there is no impact on the availability of load-balancing services.

As you learned earlier in this chapter, the ACE can be virtualized. You can create multiple virtual contexts on the ACE, and each context can failover independent of other contexts. This is achieved using fault-tolerant (FT) groups. ...

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