Transparent Load Balancing in Azure

When deploying a BIG-IP load balancer in Azure you often need to apply both source and destination address translation to work with the Azure load balancers. The following is how to reduce th...
Published Nov 09, 2020
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MichaelOLeary
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Jun 03, 2021

Hi Eric, great article! I'll ask here so others might benefit: how would you configure the health probes on the Azure load balancer in this case? We only want the Active device to respond, but I believe the Backend Pool in the Azure Load Balancer should contain only the primary IP addresses of the Azure NIC's (ie, F5's self IP addresses). So what does the health monitor look like in Azure LB, and on the BIG-IP ?