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Nimbostratus

Feb 27, 2016

Using one BIG-IP LTM chassis on two separated security network layers

Hi there! I need to know if I can use one BIG-IP chassis to run load balancing on web servers(Layer1) and Database servers(Layer2) at the same time... I mean from security point of view, is it ...

application load balancing

BIG-IP

LTM

security

Koni_51721
Feb 27, 2016
You can do this with one Chassis. To separate the traffic, use Route Domains. You can define a Default Route per Route Domain, so traffic will separate the security zones.

To separate security zones adminsitrativly, you can use a Partition per Zone.

Route Domain Concept: https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/tmos-routing-administration-11-6-0/8.htmlconceptid

Koni_51721

Cirrus

You can do this with one Chassis. To separate the traffic, use Route Domains. You can define a Default Route per Route Domain, so traffic will separate the security zones.

To separate security zones adminsitrativly, you can use a Partition per Zone.

Route Domain Concept: https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/tmos-routing-administration-11-6-0/8.htmlconceptid