For more information regarding the security incident at F5, the actions we are taking to address it, and our ongoing efforts to protect our customers, click here.

Forum Discussion

MadhuKS_152067's avatar
MadhuKS_152067
Icon for Nimbostratus rankNimbostratus
Sep 10, 2014

what is the difference between LTM & GTM

What is the main difference between LTM and GTM?

 

1 Reply

  • nathe's avatar
    nathe
    Icon for Cirrocumulus rankCirrocumulus
    Sep 10, 2014

    Let's do this in a couple of sentences. Please be aware that this is only part of the story and they do a whole lot more.

     

    Anyway, LTM (local traffic manager) delivers applications i.e. load balancing backend servers, say web servers. This provides availability of an application in case a web server goes down and another one can pick up the load.

     

    You could describe GTM (global traffic manager) as datacentre load balancing / redundancy and this is all based off of DNS. For example, LTMs in DC1 and LTMs in DC2 delivering the same app can be load balanced in case of datacentre failure (or even geo-location).

     

    This is a very top level view but hope it helps. I'm sure it could've been answered more succinctly but there you go.

     

    Please check out www.f5.com for the datasheets.

     

    N