Design Strategies in F5 LTM–Part 1
A key to an effective, resilient and robust network is a good design. Big IP design is a key for faster and more effective failover leading to greater availability and lesser convergence time. This blog is written with the deployment considerations that are done. A Big IP works like a switch, having VLAN’s and Spanning Tree Protocol. This enables the Big IP to fit right into your LAN design. You are offered with choices of Active/Standby (Failover) pair or Active/Active or as I like to call it, the “load balance your load balancer” pair, which doubles up on covering for each other. All this is feasible with the concept of “Floating IP”, “Gratuitous ARP” or “Mac Masquerading”. When the initial configuration of Big IP is done, these are things you need to consider, What business purpose will this need to serve? How many businesses are going to be using it? Where is the load balancer going to be located physically? Where are the Servers that need to be load balanced going to be loc...