Lightboard Lessons: Vip Targeting Vip

You’ve seen our Whiteboard Wednesday videos, but we are kicking it up a notch with our new “Lightboard Lessons” video series. In this video, I cover the basics of how to pass traffic from one virtual server to another on the same BIG-IP (what we affectionately call the vip targeting vip solution) and a couple use cases I’ve used in production and test scenarios (articles of which are linked below in the resources.)

Resources

• Project Acceleration: Test Infrastructure
• DevCentral Architecture
• Solution 10379: A local virtual server cannot be used as a pool member
• Solution 14180: The connection mirroring feature is not compatible with VIP-targeting-VIP solutions