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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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Jun 08, 2021

There is another similar article that describes the monitor in more detail: https://devcentral.f5.com/s/articles/Failing-Faster-in-the-Cloud

It works out to be a VIP target from a traffic-group-local VIP to a traffic-group-1 VIP to check for which device is "active". The Azure health probe will typically go to the first private IP (hence the need for a VIP target unless you are using a secondary address, but that is not possible with the configuration above).