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F5 Big-IP Load Balancers
vanquish23
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Anyone have any experience in using these devices? My new job gave me access to the F5 University and going through the modules and labs at the moment. It takes 14+ hours to complete, so this will be a knowledge injection to the max.
He who SYNs is of the devil, for the devil has SYN'ed and ACK'ed from the beginning. For this purpose, that the ACK might destroy the works of the devil.
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DevilWAH
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nice easy interfaces, Global load balancing is like DNS on steroids, local load balancing is more you standard server load balancing as found on cisco routers (although with far more features)..
I found F5 great to work with and for big companies like Banks and Oil, they seem to be used a lot. my advice is get you head round them until you are happy setting them up, they will be a big plus point to put on a CV at a later date.
I have dealt with other loadbalancers but F5 are the standard to which the others are measured in my book.- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. Albert Einstein
- An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. So when life is dragging you back with difficulties. It means that its going to launch you into something great. So just focus and keep aiming.
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networker050184
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I've worked with them a bit and they are fairly straight forward to set up a simple LB but can get extremely complex the more you do with them. As DevilWAH pointed out they are very widely used and a great skill to have on the resume.An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made.