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huudat_20099
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Nov 19, 2007

Caching problems

Hi Aaron,

 

 

I had the tender about cache engine, I saw that BIG-IP LTM have a module for caching so I wonder that whether BIG-IP could use as a cache engine or not. Did you have any documents about cache of BIG-IP for features, configures....

 

 

Please give me some advice soon.

 

Thanks so much
application delivery
design
performance
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  • hoolio's avatar
    hoolio
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    Nov 19, 2007
    Hi Dat,

     

     

    I don't run this forum :D--I'm not even an F5 employee anymore.

     

     

    If you're looking for general docs about the RAM caching module or the web accelerator module, I'd try searching on www.AskF5.com, www.f5.com or checking with your local F5 salesperson. They should be able to help you with pre-sales info on any F5 product.

     

     

    Aaron
  • James_Thomson's avatar
    James_Thomson
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    Jan 16, 2008
    The BIG-IP has two caching engines. One is the RamCache or FastCache. This is using memory to cache objects. The max memory that would be available for this is 3GB so it is very good for hot objects most likely in a reverse proxy scenario.

     

    The BIG-IP Web Accelerator product and module for LTM support caching. The module running on LTM (6400 model and above) uses around 36GB of hard disk for caching. This supports static and dynamic caching. The BIG-IP Web Acccelerator stand-alone uses about 120GB of space for caching. The main reason that BIG-IP uses caching in any of these products is to speed up the delivery of content to users and offload the backend web servers. In most cases, they are used as reverse proxy caches, but the BIG-IP web accelerator can be used as a forward proxy as well.