[mdlug] Samba and F5 for Failover?

[Wojtak, Greg]

Say I have two samba servers, ServerA and ServerB.  In front of those, I want to set up a failover mechanism  by leveraging an F5.  The idea is that the data is that the data is replicated with less than a 4ms lag between the two servers (backend disk replication).  My question is, is there anything special I need to do with Samba to get this to work?  I want the F5 virtual name that users will hit to be, say, "smb."  Would I then configure the samba servers' names to be "smb" or would it be something else, like smbA and smbB?  Any other considerations?

TIA

Greg Wojtak
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