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Skuba_85554
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Sep 16, 2010

general advice needed

my only experience is with physical big ip units and i'm wondering how the virtual edition compares to a 6800 unit, for example. are the virtual systems reliable enough to be used in production/live e...
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JRahm
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Sep 21, 2010
Lori wrote a blog a while back about using the right form factor in the right position: http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/macvittie/archive/2010/06/16/data-center-feng-shui-fault-tolerance-and-fault-isolation.aspx Click Here

 

 

There is a link for a hybrid application delivery architecture towards the end of that blog that is a good read: https://www.f5.com/pdf/white-papers/hybrid-adn-architecture.pdf Click Here