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F5 load balancing
tolinrome. I'd agree around the documentation, however, in most use cases, the F5 simply is a reverse proxy, there's no specific setup required to enable that. In your case, assuming you don't want to use any advanced features, you'll want to do the following per service/server;
1) Setup a node with the IP of the internal server 2) Setup a Pool with the node from 1) configured as it's only Member 3) Setup a Virtual Server and specify a suitable IP address 4) Setup SNAT if required; this will depend on how your routing works, typically you SNAT to ensure return traffic from the 'real server' (the node from 1)) to the client passes through the F5. If it'll do this anyway, no need.
Considering your device's placement, I'd highly recommend you trawl through the LTM/TMOS manuals and spend some time considering the security features described within.
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