Hyper-V – Virtual F5 Load Balancer
As the scenarios of what I need to test before moving solutions into production get more complex, I often find that not having my Lab match the production environment can result in undesirable results; most of which are always associated with either firewall rules or a load balancer configuration. So, today I am going to address this by taking advantage of the F5 BigIP virtual load balancer which works quite nicely with Hyper-V (including 2012!). In this post I will cover the main steps required to install and get the virtual device online ready for some real work. Now, it is important to know that before you start you will need an account on DevCentral which is the F5 community area, so that you can access and download the appliance; and also you will need to...