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Two configuration sections follow, the first for BIG-IP LTM and the second for BIG-IP DNS. Each section provides a couple examples along with the reference architecture. Context around related deployment options are also mentioned.
We make the assumption that whether BIG-IP devices are deployed in isolation or as a group, the general guidelines provided are the same. F5 documentation should be reviewed so that any differences between deploying single and redundant devices are understood.
All of the examples provided use the ECS VDCs as configured in the tables above. The examples provided were deployed in a lab environment using the ECS Community Edition, v3.0, and virtual F5 edition, version
13.0.0 (Build 2.0.1671 HF2). Unlike above in the ECS configuration section, steps are provided in the examples below on how to configure the F5 BIG-IP traffic management constructs. We do not provide BIG-IP base configuration steps such as licensing, naming, NTP, and DNS.
For each site BIG-IP LTM is deployed and configured to balance the load to ECS nodes. In federated ECS deployments a BIG-IP DNS can be used to direct application traffic to the most suitable site.