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Hi Mike,
To expand a bit further, central admin is simply an fqdn of the servr name in AD (ie SPAC1 etc etc). It will have a readable URL in the end, so I am looking to do:
Set-SPAlternateURL -Identity "https://sps" -Url "https://spca.corp.contoso.com"
As from http://www.harbar.net/archive/2013/02/13/Using-SSL-for-Central-Administration-with-SharePoint-2013.aspx
Looking at the guide, it states:
For each public URL to be deployed behind LTM, you must first modify the URL protocol of the internal URL associated with that URL and zone from http:// to https://: and then recreate the http:// URL. If you try to just add a new URL for HTTPS, it will not function properly
I have played about with AAMs pre F5 configuration. So I assume I need http first in the list of internal urls, and then https.
Is an F5 VIP specific to one web app or several web apps? Ie just central admin or could it go to multiple http(s) sites?
So to conclude, my understanding is the following:
Create VIP in F5 with pool of servers to load balance, and then in DNS, an IP to go to the VIP with a hostname of the site - in my case, a rewritten central admin url.
In central admin, I may not need to rewrite anything but I need to setup http and https internal urls, as mentioned from the F5 guide.
Thanks