f5's BIG-IP load balancer

Sysadmin

From some time I'm interested from BIG-IP like a load balancing with failover solution for our network. Found interesting post with BIG-IP features:

  • It runs Linux kernel 2.4 in conjunction with some microkernel OS that F5 calls TMOS.
  • Customized, interactive monitors for server availability can be written in Perl.
  • Traffic flow can be modified using Tcl scripts. Basically anything can be inspected and modified, on TCP level as well as HTTP.

Next week there will be free f5 seminar in Osaka. Already made a registration.