Mar 27, 2026 - For details about updated CVE-2025-53521 (BIG-IP APM vulnerability), refer to K000156741.

Four Active/Active load balancing examples with F5 BIG-IP and Azure Load Balancer

Multiple standalone devices, or cluster? Let's discuss what is possible and easily supportable in public cloud.

Background A couple years ago I wrote an article about some practical considerations using Azure Load Balancer. Over time it's been used by customers, so I thought to add a further article that spe...
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May 20, 2024

Hi - i am trying to configure a Sync only device group  F5 deployment in GCP - i have 2 single NIC f5s .

to setup device trust i need to have a NON Management ip address . can you help me understand how you set it up on your environment.

did you add a second ip to interval vlan on both devices and allowed communication on heartbeat ports between the 2 devices on that port ?

secondly how did you configure virtual servers - was it the same ip address on both devices ?

thanks 

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    MichaelOLeary
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    Jul 18, 2024

    Hi awan_m 

    Yes, add a second network interface for the non-management traffic. Regarding the IP address, usually I have a different IP address on each device.

    Please shoot me a message over this website if you want more help and we can email directly, thanks!!

    Mike