Need to Load balance SFTP traffic

Here's a very basic walkthrough;

 

 

Local Traffic > Nodes > Create -- Create two Nodes for your real servers, apply an ICMP Health Monitor

 

 

Local Traffic > Pools > Create -- Create a pool and assign your two Nodes to it, specify the relevant port your real servers are listening on and apply a tcp_half_open Health Monitor

 

 

Local Traffic > Virtual Servers > Create -- Create a Virtual Server, assign a name, IP address (that's reachable by clients) and relevant Service Port, Type: Performance (Layer 4)

FYI;

 

 

Well over 20 manuals and guides for BIG-IP, TMOS and LTM can be found here: http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/versions.11_2_0.html

Hi ,

 

 

Thanks for help But I am still confused what persistence shall I use, I don't want to use Source address persistence as all the traffic is coming for Firewall IP so in this case if SA persistence is used traffic will end up going to single server, what can be the alternative , is HASH persistence can work for this ?

Hash persistence will not work as the traffic is encrypted. If my understanding of SFTP is correct, you do not need persistence. SFTP will use a single long-lived (if necessary) connection and not open additional ones like a HTTP client might.