Load Balancing

F5 LTM Deep Dive: Virtual Servers, iRules, SSL Offloading & HA This article is part of the F5 BIG-IP series. New to F5? Start with the platform overview first: F5 BIG-IP Is Not a Load Balancer — It’s an Application Delivery Platform If you already know the big picture and want to go deep on LTM — configuration, iRules, migration field notes — you’re in the right place. The Full-Proxy Architecture: Why It Changes Everything The most important thing to understand about LTM is that it is a full-proxy. This is not a marketing term — it has direct operational consequences that distinguish LTM from every simpler load balancer. ...

F5 BIG-IP: It is an Application Delivery Platform The most common introduction to F5 in an enterprise goes like this: someone opens a ticket that says “the load balancer is down” and points at the F5. The problem is already in that sentence. F5 BIG-IP is not a load balancer. Calling it one is like calling a data center a server room — technically not wrong, but it completely misses the point. ...