F5 Load Balancer Administration involves managing and configuring F5 load balancers, which are devices designed to distribute network traffic across multiple servers or resources. Load balancing plays a crucial role in optimizing resource utilization, enhancing application performance, and ensuring high availability and reliability.
To configure an F5 load balancer, you typically perform the following steps:
- Import or create the SSL certificate.
- Create an SSL profile in F5.
- Create the pool.
- Create iRules.
- Configure the virtual server.
Contents
- Describe the role of the BIG-IP system as a full proxy device in an application delivery network
- Set up, start/restart/stop, license, and provision the BIG-IP system out-of-the-box
- Create a basic network configuration on the BIG-IP system including VLANs and self IPs
- Use the Configuration utility and TMSH to manage BIG-IP resources such as virtual servers, pools, pool members, nodes, profiles, and monitors
- Create, restore from, and manage BIG-IP archives
- View resource status, availability, and statistical information and use this information to determine how the BIG-IP system is currently processing traffic
- Use profiles to manipulate the way the BIG-IP system processes traffic through a virtual server
- Perform basic troubleshooting and problem determination activities including using the iHealth diagnostic tool
- Support, and view traffic flow using TCPDUMP
- Understand and manage user roles and partitions
- Configure and manage a sync-failover device group with more than two members
- Configure stateful failover using connection mirroring and persistence mirroring
