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Solomon_Abebe_2
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Jun 03, 2015

Deploying DirectAccess in Mutlisite with F5

The company (an International Company) I work for is planning to deploy DirectAccess Servers at five data centers accross the Globe. The nodes at different data centers will be on their own VLAN or subnet; however; we would like to combine them into ONE CLUSTER. Does F5 has a technology which place all the servers at different data centers in a single cluster?

 

Thanks,

 

Solomon

 

microsoft

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  • Stanislas_Piro2's avatar
    Stanislas_Piro2
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    Jun 22, 2015

    Load balancing across different datacenter with different IP address is called GSLB (Global site load balancing) The F5 GSLB product is GTM (Global Traffic Manager)

     

    The GSLB behavior is to act as DNS server for a specific DNS record or a complete DNS zone.

     

    GTM will be able to answer the best IP depending on geolocalisation (Continent, State, ..), nearest DC (hop count, Round trip time, ...) and service availability.