BIG-IP LTM: Deployment Models

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series F5 Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

Views: 37Deployment Methods One-Arm Deployment In one-arm deployment, the load balancer is not physically in line of the traffic, which means that the load balancer’s ingress and egress traffic goes through the same network interface. Traffic from the client through the load balancer is network address translated (NAT) with the load balancer as its source … Read more

L4 – L7 Load Balancing

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series F5 Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

Views: 34 Load Balancers Despite the name, a Load Balancer does not only balance the load: some of its core functionalities are: L4 to L7 Network Services Definition L4-L7 Network Services Definition are a set of functions such as: load balancing, web application firewalls, service discovery, and monitoring for network layers within the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model. … Read more