Working with highly available routers
With few exceptions, creating and managing an HA router is no different from its standalone counterpart. Neutron's router management commands were covered in the previous chapter, and the exceptions can be found in the following sections.
Creating highly available routers
As an administrator, HA routers can be created using the --ha
flag with the Neutron router-create
command, as follows:
usage: router-create [--tenant-id TENANT_ID] [--admin-state-down] --ha {True,False} NAME
Note
As a regular user, the type of router that is created, whether it's a standalone, HA, or distributed virtual router, is determined by the l3_ha
configuration option in the Neutron configuration file. Users do not have the ability ...
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