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Josh_41258
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Sep 18, 2013

ASM on VIPRION/vCMP

I am new to ASM here, and I'm looking for some advice on best practices for an ASM deployment using vCMP.   Is it recommended to run separate vCMP guests for ASM and LTM, or run both LTM and ASM...
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JRahm_128324
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Jan 16, 2014

bypassing ASM would indicate that security is not really a requirement for doing business, but that is a business problem, not a technical problem. I have seen deployments exactly as you are describing them, just looping through ASM but all control is handled in the LTM. I've also seen client->LTM->ASM->server, and client->LTM/ASM->server. I prefer less hops when scale isn't an issue.