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SSL server profile with external website
If this is a LOCAL virtual server that's intended to provide access to a REMOTE service (www.google.ca), then there are a few things to consider:
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Does the BIG-IP have access to the Internet? Have you configured a default route? And can you cURL to https://74.125.128.94 from the BIG-IP command line?
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You probably don't need SNAT since Google will have no choice to route back to you. Though SNAT shouldn't hurt you either way.
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Google has a tendency to use a lot of servers for a single service, and not always the same IPs. Statically mapping www.gooole.ca to a single IP address may a) break Google-initiated redirects to other URLs and page content that also lives somewhere else, and b) suffer a potential outage when Google changes its IPs. I also wouldn't put money on them always responding to pings.
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