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wowchens
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Jan 03, 2008

F5 to load balance MS Sql Servers

Hello All: I am presented with a tricky situation by the business users here at my company. After seeing the performance and manageability with all the Web Servers and App Servers with F5 LTM, now they want to see if we can do the same for Database Servers. Right off my head, I said its doable but took time to get back with more details and here am.

 

 

Is there a solutions guide or something that gives more insight on setting up Database servers behind LTM. I am not sure if anyone ever did this before, at least I never saw any company using F5 to load balance DB. I am not sure even this is possible.

 

 

Please advice. Appreciate you help.

 

 

Thanks,

 

Chenna
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  • iremhinmhen_bri's avatar
    iremhinmhen_bri
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    Nov 01, 2012
    this scenario so far in the thread, does not tally with my environment.

     

     

    this is my case:

     

     

    i have one database, i have two nodes in front of it. they are in active/passive mode. can i use F5 BIG-IP LTM to make the two nodes active/active? so it can i Load balance connections to the Database (MS SQL Server 2008) if yes how?

     

     

    any clue please? thanks.