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Navin_130677
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Aug 26, 2015

Setup a VIP for Publishing MS SQL Server

Hi   I need to publish a SQL server behing f5, using SSL, I plan to setup a VIP with the Wildcard SSL Certificate and then create a Pool for SQL server with Port 1433. Will this Setup work to have...
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Kevin_Stewart
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Aug 26, 2015

I've not tested this, but from what I've read SSL would simply wrap around the SQL protocol (like HTTPS and LDAPS), so it should be trivial to offload the SSL layer at a VIP for SQL traffic. Of course the clients have to be able to support encrypted SQL communications.