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jaked_150553
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Jun 13, 2014

best method to loadbalance bigip vips with GTM

I am trying to understand, which is the best method to loadbalance bigip VIPs from two different datacenters:   1> create two datacenters in GTM group, add the bigip VIPs as nodes into it - OR 2>...
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Cory_50405
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Jun 13, 2014

Sure. Here's an article detailing the GTM -> LTM setup:

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_gtm/manuals/product/gtm-implementations-11-3-0/7.html

 

You'd build your GTM pool objects to reference the virtual servers defined underneath the LTM server objects. You don't need to explicitly define health monitors at the GTM level since they are inherited from LTM.

 

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    jaked_150553
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    Jun 13, 2014
    Thanks a lot Cory :)