F5 LTM OneConnect profile helps us reuse existing TCP connections between BIG-IP and internal web servers for the next requests of the same or another clients.
It is used to increase the throughput of both BIG-IP and internal servers.
F5 LTM profiles provide the capability to manage and affect the behavior of specific traffic as it passes through a virtual server.
In this section, we change TCP traffic by changing the TOS value in the IP header.
F5 BIG-IP LTM has many load balancing algorithms that we will discuss and compare in this section.
Are they static or dynamic? What is the difference between health monitor and performance monitor? What are the requirements for implementing a load balancing algorithm? Which load balancing algorithm is best for my application? These are the questions we will answer in this section.
To complete BIG-IP LTM Lab topology, we need some web servers to be used as example web servers behind the LTM load-balancer.
In this section we show how to prepare sample web servers with SliTaz, a lightweight Linux operating system.
F5 BIG-IP CLI via “tmsh” (TMOS shell) is another method of BIG-IP configuration and monitoring in addition to the GUI that we started in the previous section.
In this section we will focus on the CLI method of F5 BIG-IP configuration and monitoring.