LTM VE on VirtualBox - Load Balance same subnet

You can get a free trial VE for v10 but it's pretty old now. If you have one, I'd ask your F5 SE/agent/rep for a trial/lab key for the latest version.

 

 

Not sure about using it on VirtualBox.

 

 

TMOS Contains everything you need in a single package, certainly where LTM is concerned.

 

 

A rough ordered list of configuration steps (after any hypervisor related tasks) would look like this;

 

 

•Management network interface IP address and route

 

•Licensing

 

•Provisioning

 

•Disk partitions, TMOS upgrades and hotfix installations

 

•Hostname, local host file

 

•Administrative Partitions

 

•Local user accounts, remote authentication and user roles

 

•DNS, NTP, SNMP, SMTP, Logging, log rotation etc.

 

•Management tasks such as configuration backups and management routes, service failure actions and time zone

 

•Security (password policy, banners, timeouts, source address persistence)

 

•Physical Interfaces and Trunks

 

•VLANs, STP, LLDP

 

•Route Domains

 

•Self IPs, ARP and NDP

 

•LTM Routing

 

•Failover and Configsync etc.

 

•Global settings such as PMTUD, Auto Last Hop and L2 cache aging time

 

•Nodes

 

•Health Monitors

 

•Pools

 

•NATs

 

•SSL Certificate installation

 

•Profiles (persistence, protocol, SSL, HTTP, HTTP compression, Web Acceleration)

 

•iRules, Data Groups, iFiles

 

•Virtual Servers