The physical hardware running the F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager loadblancing software is powerfull, but also quite expensive. For a lab environment you do not need to buy a new hardware, but you can get the F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager Virtual Edition and install it as virtual machine.
That is the way I would like to describe here. I had one spare HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 so RHEL7 virtualization (KVM) was the first choice.
In short I have to deal with bonding (two cables going to the 2 separate switches), trunk containing 3 vlans, bridges and finally with the F5 configuration itself.
That is the way I would like to describe here. I had one spare HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 so RHEL7 virtualization (KVM) was the first choice.
In short I have to deal with bonding (two cables going to the 2 separate switches), trunk containing 3 vlans, bridges and finally with the F5 configuration itself.
