"High Away Blues Nr 2" or Challenges in Edge High Availability Part 2: Enhanced HA
VMware SD-WAN Enhanced High Availability (HA) is a redundant Edge installation where both Edges have each different WAN networks connected to only one of the 2 devices. When both Edges are online, the standby edge will forward packets between it`s local active WAN circuits to the active edge via the GE1 HA-Link. One basic rule for the automatic detection of the Enhanced mode is that WAN circuits have to use different WAN Interfaces on that edges. Here is a working example for Enhanced HA BR-25 is the Enhanced HA pair with one Internet connection (GE3) and one MPLS connection (GE4) As I did not know which interface will be used for the MPLS connection, I configured GE4 to GE6 as User Defined Private WAN Overlay. In that way a local operator can connect the MPLS circuit to any of those 3 WAN Interfaces. This perfectly works for single Edges and even reconnecting from one MPLS interface to another is completely unproblematic. Unfortunately...