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Nimbostratus

Mar 08, 2009

Looking for some Windows help

First time here. Pretty new to Load Balancing with the F5 Looking for some answers. I am trying to find out if F5 can be used in place of Microsoft Load Balancing. What t...

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Cirrostratus

Mar 09, 2009

Hi Shawn,

You can configure a Performance L4 virtual server on port 445 pointing to a pool of windows servers to load balance the SMB traffic. Here are two posts you can reference for setting this up:

File share high availability

http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&forumid=25&tpage=1&view=topic&postid=22206

External Monitor for Shared Folders

http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&forumid=32&tpage=1&view=topic&postid=2292025084

And a sample configuration:

 
 virtual test_fastl4_port445_vs {  
    snat automap  
    pool test_port445_pool  
    destination 10.1.1.1:445  
    ip protocol 6  
    profiles fastL4  
    persist source_addr  
 }  
 pool test_port445_pool {  
    members 10.2.2.2:445  
    members 10.2.2.3:445  
 }

Aaron

LiefZimmerman
Admin
Dec 02, 2020
- a community member contacted us looking for "information on using multiple SMB shares across a single F5 VS". The question is 404'ng but this answer you mention about File Share HA (also badly formatted from a previous ETL exercise) might have the answer?
I need to go into the wayback machine to see if I can figure out what that link WAS supposed to point to but figured I'd ask if you know of some more current info to help out?