How to setup F5 Big-IP LTM for Weblogic on different ports, same IP
Hi Everyone,
I am a Weblogic/Oracle DB administrator. Currently we are establishing our web application on a Weblogic Cluster using two redundant Big-IP 1600 LTM devices. We have a 9-node Weblogic cluster on 3 different AIX 7.1 machines (each machine has 3 different Virtual Servers). Our F5 consultants have asked us to establish our Virtual servers on different IPs due to some constraints on F5 LTM that you cannot have more than one pool member with the same IP. So we tried multihoming on our cluster (to use more than one NIC with different IP addresses and bind each Weblogic Virtual Server to each one of them) but later we found out that multihoming causes issues with Weblogic internal messaging system. What we are currently looking at is to have one IP per machine and running our Virtual Servers on a different port. But it seems it causes issues for F5 in configuration. How we can deal with this? Anyone has any ideas?
So far, I've found two solutions : IP teaming and reverse proxy, we are still investigating these two but due to some project constraints we might not be able to proceed with these two. I wanted to know if there is something inside F5 (like iRule) to direct the requests to different VIP/Ports.
Let me know if "any" ideas on "any" layers came into your mind!