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Leslie_South_55
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusIn-Line or One-Arm LTM Placement
OK, so this may be a little "BigIP 101" but I wanted to ask the question anyway. I have been using v9 bigip for about 2 years now, and during the first implementation, we put the LTM smack dab in the...
Bart_18836Nimbostratus
NimbostratusOne more thing that nobody stated here , remember that F5's are not having full-state failover. From my 7 year experience I've seen situations and environments that this setup was a disaster since applications were not able to reconnect sessions after failover of F5 cluster. For me having inline is the last resort (i would run cluster in hybrid mode so we just use inline for particular vips when necassary).
Bart_18836Nimbostratus
NimbostratusAustin,
I am fully aware of connection mirroring but it's not a lightweight solution in terms of performance especially when you run hundreds of thousands of connections. It can be used in some exceptions but I never threat this as a standard configuration.
