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mark_steel_1191
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Jan 26, 2013

f5s across web and app tiers / across firewalls

we are using f5's with GTM across two sites for web tier (for Oracle Weblogic apps).   we need to provide load balancing for the app tier as well which is inside the inner firewall.   is this a...
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What_Lies_Bene1
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Jan 26, 2013
Fair points Nitass. If I can suggest another alternative. Just use the 'web' load balancers to balance to the 'app' servers. It doesn't matter that there is a firewall in the path between the load balancers and app servers. You might need to SNAT but that's about the only downside.

 

 

I would avoid cabling to two different DMZs and Route Domains myself.