Managed Services: Load Balancing
When you need a load balancing technology, there is one name that stands above the rest: F5. Bluelock has partnered with F5 to provide the BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager™ VE as a virtual appliance to meet your enterprise load balancing needs. The appliance lives in your Bluelock Virtual Datacenter (VDC), giving you complete control over the features F5 is known for.
ABOUT F5 BIG-IP LTM VE
As organizations increasingly realize the benefits of virtualization within and across data centers, supporting application delivery with a dynamic infrastructure is more important than ever.
With BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) Virtual Edition (VE), you can take your Application Delivery Network virtual. You get the agility you need to create a mobile, scalable and adaptable infrastructure for virtualized applications. Like the physical BIG-IP LTM appliance, BIG-IP LTM VE is a full proxy between users and application servers, providing a layer of abstraction that secures, optimizes and load balances application traffic.
GETTING STARTED
Call Bluelock to get started right away. The F5 BIG-IP LTM VE can be deployed directly from Bluelock’s VMware vCloud™ Director catalog, or simply have Bluelock Client Support do it for you. Bluelock can also provide licensing on a monthly basis.
SMART TECHNOLOGY
Horizontal Scaling
By utilizing the F5 BIG-IP LTM VE, you can scale your applica- tions horizontally, which means less downtime and better scaling.
High Availability
The F5 BIG-IP LTM VE appliances can be clustered for high availability, providing the ultimate solution for high up-time requirements.
Virtual Hardware
Upgrade your F5 by simply adding more CPUs, Memory, or NICs. No need to re-deploy another virtual appliance.
Secure Applications and Data
From powerful network-level and protocol-level security to selective data and cookie encryption, BIG-IP LTM VE deploys a suite of security services to protect the applications that run your business.
Plan for Growth and Avoid Downtime
With BIG-IP LTM VE, you get the industry’s most advanced load balancing and application health monitoring capabilities. BIG-IP LTM VE enables you to seamlessly add virtual servers and redirect traffic away from issues with specific servers or network components. Industry-leading performance ensures that your business has room to grow.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
2 Virtual CPUs
2 GB Ram
3 Virtual network adapters
1 40 GB LSI Logic disk
Access F5’s BIG-IP LTM VE Datasheet for additional information.
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