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Almassud_221797
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Dec 11, 2015

Accessing File shares through F5 VIP

Hello all,   I have a server that hosts lots of roles such as file server, web server, home grown apps, and few other things. I am working on breaking this single serve into 6 servers.   2 Web ...
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tatmotiv
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Dec 11, 2015

Why do you want to have a single VIP accomplishing this? Wouldn't it be easier to define a VIP for port 80 and assign the pool of webservers to it, then define some VIPs (can share the same destination IP) with file server ports (depending on the protocols in use, possibly 135/445 tcp for windows file servers using CIFS) and assign the pool of file servers to it, and finally a VIP with port 0 that catches all the remaining ports and passes them on to the "other apps" pool?