F5 Load Balancer Training
Let us take an example of online shopping. Have you shopped for your favorite products online, especially during the great online shopping bonanza time? Just like you, there will be millions of people accessing the same website to buy their favorite products right? Ever wondered how these websites cater to each of their customers efficiently, without a delay of even a fraction of a second?
This is exactly where Local Traffic Managers come in. The Local Traffic Manager (LTM) smartly manage network traffic in such a way that applications are always fast, available, and secure.
Load Balancing distributes network traffic to online servers that fulfil requests in minimum time. This improve speed and efficiency of all servers in a network. This also ensures that all servers have equivalent workload for nonstop and timely services.
Course Objectives
- F5 Fundamentals and Introductions
- BIG-IP System Setup
- Reviewing Local Traffic Configuration
- Load Balancing Traffic with LTM
- Modifying Traffic Behavior with Persistence
- Monitoring Application Health
- Processing Traffic with Virtual Servers
- Processing Traffic with SNATs
- Configuring High Availability
- Configuring High Availability Part 2
- Modifying Traffic with Profiles
Target Audience
- IT Professional
- Network Professional
- Network Support Engineer
- Network Admin
- System Engineer
- Network Product Pre-sales engineer
Course Pre-requisite
Students should understand:
- Basic understanding in Networking
- OSI Model
- TCP/IP Model
- Network setup and basic level troubleshooting
Course Summary
Course Fee
৳ 8,000
Training Method
Offline/Online
Total Modules
14
Course Duration
48 Hours
Total Session
12
Class Duration
4 Hours
Details Course Outlines
Module -01
Introduction to the BIG-IP TMOS platform
- Components of the BIG-IP platform (H/W and S/W)
- Different form factors
- Available modules
- Quick review of half vs full proxy and OneConnect
Module -02
Initial Access and Installation
- Initial setup
- Licensing
- Provisioning
Module -03
Traffic Objects
- Nodes, Pool Members
- Virtual Servers and Pools
- Different types of Virtual Servers and use cases
Module -04
Load Balancing Methods
- Member vs node
- Static load-balancing methods
- Dynamic load-balancing methods
- Priority group activation
- Fallback host
Module -05
Monitors
- Monitors overview
- Different types of monitors
- Advanced monitor options
- Assignment of monitors and Object Status
- Monitor logging
Module -06
About Profiles
- Need for profiles
- Profile types
- Profile Dependencies
Module -07
Persistence
- Stateful vs stateless applications
- Different methods for persistence
- Match across options
Module -08
SSL Traffic handling
- Understanding the PKI terminology
- Different options for handling SSL
Module -09
NAT and SNAT
- Comparing NAT and SNAT
- SNAT for inbound traffic
- SNAT for outbound traffic
Module -10
High Availability
- Understanding Traffic Groups
- Device Service clusters
- Different types of Device groups
- Steps to configuring HA groups
- Floating IP addresses and MAC Masquerading
- Failover options and methods
- Configuring stateful failover
Managing the BIG IP system
Module -11
Controlling access and backups
- User roles
- SCF and UCS backups
- Port lockdowns and Packet filters
Module -12
Customised behaviour
- iRules and iApps
- Strict updates