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barryps_316354
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Apr 04, 2017

How many long-lived SSL connections can be supported on a BIG-IP LTM?

We have BIG-IP LTM devices on-prem.   A recent mandate stated that connections coming from a public cloud provider to an on-prem database must be encrypted across the entire public part of the con...
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JG
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Apr 04, 2017

You didn't give a projected scale of your connection requirement. In theory, each client can have 64k connections to a VIP, and from what I can see from my F5 systems, there can be a maximum of 3297078 files/connections open system-wide. As each connection consumes memory, the likely "bottleneck" for you would really be the amount of memory available in your system - allocated to the LTM.