To accommodate a potential surge in the HA Related traffic, admins may want to separate the HA related traffic from the management traffic and restrict its flow to a separate VLAN called HA SYNC-VLAN.

Instructions

Points to Consider before Configuring an HA SYNC VLAN

• The configuration of an HA SYNC VLAN is neither propagated nor synchronized. In other words, the HA SYNC VLAN is node specific and is configured independently on each nodes.
• HA SYNC VLAN configuration is removed when you clear the configuration in only FULL mode.
• HA MON must be set to OFF for interfaces that are part of the HA SYNC VLAN, to avoid a situation in which both nodes function as the primary node.
• Management interfaces (for example, 0/1 and 0/2) must not be part of the HA SYNC VLAN, so that HA related traffic does not flow through management interfaces.

To configure an HA SYNC VLAN on a NetScaler node, specify a configured VLAN with the HA SYNC VLAN parameter of the local node entity.

To configure an HA SYNC VLAN on a local node by using the command line

At the command prompt, type:

• set node –hasyncvlan <VLANID>
• show node

Parameter Description

Hasyncvlan (Sync VLAN)

VLAN on which HA related traffic is sent. This includes traffic for synchronization, propagation, connection mirroring, load balancing persistency, configuration synchonization, persistent session synchronization, and session state synchronization. However, HA heartbeats can use any interface.

To configure an HA SYNC VLAN on a node by using the configuration utility

1. Navigate to System > High Availability.
2. Set the Sync VLAN parameter while modifying the local node.