F5 Deployment standards or Recommendations

 

F5 Deployment standards or Recommendations :--

. Decide whether you want to use One-Arm or Inline mode.
2. Decide if you want to use Separate internal/external vlans or one
vlan.
3. If using One Arm then SNAT is must.
4. Decide if you want to terminate SSL on F5 or on Server.
5. Which load balancing mechanism to use.
6. Which health monitor to user.
7. Use optimization profiles like one connect, compression etc
8. Use analytics profile to better analyze the traffic and usage
patterns.
9. If two devices then decide active/standby or active/active.
10. For better logging of traffic define some iRule.

11.++Persistence

12.++policy forwarding

13.++ Security Profile