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txn_94940
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Aug 07, 2018

Big-IP LTM VE load balance configuration

Hi Everyone,

 

I've setup a LTM VE on my VMware Workstation. I got 2 Windows webservers and 2 Windows VM Clients. Below is my setup on LTM VE GUI:

 

  1. Network: Interface 1.1 (untagged)-> Internal: 10.1.3.20/24. Floating IP is 10.1.3.30. Interface 1.2 (untagged)-> External: 10.100.1.20/24. Floating IP is 10.100.1.30.

     

  2. Local Traffic: Nodes: Wins2016-01: 10.1.3.40. Wins2016-02: 10.1.3.41. Pool: F5_Webservers (Green). Round Robin. Members: Wins2016-01 and Wins2016-02. Virtual Servers: Windows2016 (Green). Source address: 0.0.0.0/0 Destination address/mask: 10.100.1.50 Service port 80 Default Pool: F5_Webservers

     

From the Client PC (10.100.1.41) can ping both Webservers 'Wins2016-01' and 'Wins2016-02', I'm also able to ping 10.100.1.50 but can't browse the 10.100.1.50 from IE explorer. Any ideas what I missed here? I really appreciate it! Thanks.

 

  • Hi Txn

     

    The best place to start from my point of view is the is the vlab package it contains lot of hands on labs you can do that covers a vast majority of the f5 ltm features.

     

    You can find the vlab package on the f5 downloads site.

     

  • Hi Txn

     

    The best place to start from my point of view is the is the vlab package it contains lot of hands on labs you can do that covers a vast majority of the f5 ltm features.

     

    You can find the vlab package on the f5 downloads site.

     

  • Thanks so much to both Kevin and Shiran. After changed to 'Auto Map', it works now.

     

    Last question, are there any examples or practice labs out there that I can play with the F5 LTM VE to learn more about F5 LTM? I've also purchased a license for LTM VE. Thanks again!

     

  • Can you ping the virtual server from the client by default the virtual server will respond to ICMP ?

     

    Is the internal vlan self ip address/floating the default gateway for the servers ? if no configure auto map on the virtual server and then test

     

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      txn_94940
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      Yes, I can ping the virtual server (10.100.1.50) from my Client(10.100.1.41). Yes, by default virtual server is responding to ICMP.

       

      No, the webservers are using their network default gateway (10.1.3.1). How do I can configure auto map on the virtual server and test? Sorry for the newbie questions and please bare with me.