F5 Big IP 2000s Appliance Configuration Step by Step Guide - 2. Configure BIG-IP Objects and HA

In Previous Step by step guide - 1. Initial configuration, we complete following steps:

• Configure Management Interface
• License the BIG-IP
• Complete the Setup Wizard

There are a couple of related posts in this blog:

• F5 Big IP 2000s Appliance Configuration Step by Step Guide - 1. Initial Configuration
• F5 BigIP LTM v11.5.3 Virtual Appliance Configuration - Part 1
• F5 BigIP LTM v11.5.3 Virtual Appliance Configuration - Part 2
• F5 BigIP LTM Basic Configuration Steps
• F5 Big-IP 2500 Appliance System Initial Configuration
• Download and Install F5 BIG-IP v11.x / Virtual Edition 11.3.x into Vmware Workstation

This post will show how to configure BIG-IP LTM to support an application.

Typical F5 BIG-IP Deployment Topology

F5 Lab Topology

1. High Availability Configuration following HA Wizard:

 

 

 
After built the trust with your peer and the configuraiton sync-ed between members, both nodes looks like this:

2. Vlan Configuration

3. Self IP Configuration