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aalkhuja_160331
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Feb 22, 2015

F5-LTM Best practice for Datacenters

Hi,   I have a new Data Center (Active-DR/Passive), I want to know the best practice for deploying LTM. can we go for the VE, or it is not recommended. My considerations for the VE are:   Scal...
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StephanManthey
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Feb 23, 2015

Hi allkhuja,

 

from my perspective using VE is fine. Actually I´m using it in a client´s environment (TMOS v11.5.1; keeping HF level up-to-date) and have no stability issues at all.

 

Running frontend and backend services on the same system can be done by using routing domains.

 

Routing domains separate the contexts and do not allow crosscommunication by default.

 

Another aspect to think about is redundancy.

 

As a virtual machine can quickly be restored it depends on your client´s availability requirements to run non-redundant per site which saves a lot of costs.

 

The VE licenses scale up to multi gigabit now. So you will be able to either just increase the license to increase the avaible bandwidth if required.

 

But most times I would expect adding CPU cores to the virtual machine will help to meet requirements of cpu intensive iRule processing tasks and SSL en-/decryption.

 

Thanks, Stephan