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Nik_67256
Nimbostratus
May 09, 2012Is it advisable to deploy LTM & ASM on one Box?
Hi Aaron / All,
Does anyone know if its recommended by f5 to deploy BigIp LTM & ASM on one box.
What are the high level advantages. I looked up the documentation but nothing out there on this.
regards
Nik
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- Mark_Cloutier
Nimbostratus
I've been discussing this with my F5 sales team. Basically its a matter of resources. In order for ASM to look at https traffic the traffic needs to be decrypted. If you are already doing ssl termination as part of the LTM, there's a lot to be said for having ASM on the same box so it only has to be unencrypted and reencrypted once. However doing the LTM function and the ASM function on the same box obviously takes more CPU/memory etc than just LTM. - Nik_67256
Nimbostratus
- Mark_Cloutier
Nimbostratus
Yes that is correct. Put another way, there's no conflict in functionality having them both on the same box, in fact they complement each other, you just have to make sure there's enough resources to run both - Techgeeeg
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Hi Nik,
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