F5 LTM 101 and 201 Exam Videos

Install and configure a big-ip ltm in a lab using vmware workstation, set up four vlans (management, internal, external, high availability) and activate licenses.

Set up the BigIP LTM on vmware, configure interfaces and VLANs, fix the external interface, then build three CentOS nodes, an HTTP pool, and a VIP with auto map.

Explore static and dynamic load balancing concepts in LTM, including round-robin, ratio, least connections, and priority group activation, and understand how server health and capacity inform deployment decisions.

Configure LTM with round-robin load balancing by setting up nodes, a pool with HTTP health monitoring, and a VIP to distribute external requests to three backend servers.

Configure static NAT mappings on the LTM to translate external requests to internal servers using a dedicated internal subnet translation IP, avoiding automap.

Configure snat pool on the LTM by creating a pool of external IPs (51–53), map it to the virtual server, and verify inside-to-outside translation with Wireshark.

Configure LTM priority group activation to create active standby pool members and ensure high-priority servers handle traffic, with lower-priority servers ready to take over.

Demonstrate one-armed load balancing with ltm by configuring an internal virtual server and pool, using http profile and automatic nat, within a single subnet.

One Connect profile increases network throughput by reusing idle HTTP keep-alives between the Big-IP system and pool members, reducing the need to establish new TCP connections.

Learn http load balancing with source address affinity persistence, directing sessions to the same server by source IP, and configure a default persistence profile with a three-minute timeout.

Learn cookie-based persistence by attaching a cookie profile to a VIP to maintain session continuity, and decipher cookies with a Linux tool to reveal server IP and port.

Learn how SSL and TLS secure web traffic, compare HTTP and HTTPS, and configure LTM with HTTPS pools, monitors, and client SSL and server SSL profiles to enable encrypted traffic.

Demonstrate ssl termination with an ltm adc to decrypt ssl at the edge and forward as http, boosting back-end performance and guiding certificate creation and ssl profile setup.

Create a self-signed certificate on the big-ip, save the configuration, and configure a client ssl profile and virtual server to demonstrate ssl termination.

Learn to implement ssl redirection on f5 ltm by using an iRule to redirect http requests to https on a specified port, ensuring a seamless ssl termination for the vip.

Configure active standby failover using a sync failover device group across two big IP appliances in a VMware environment. Set up prerequisites, traffic groups, and configuration mirroring for seamless failover.

Configure connection persistence mirroring on a big-ip ltm to duplicate ssh connections across active and standby units, attach a persistence profile to the vip, and monitor with ssh.

Explore how destination, source, and service port precedence determine virtual server matching for identical VIP addresses, showing how traffic from different subnets reaches distinct back-end pools.

The lab demonstrates destination precedence and the order of processing—destination, then source, then port—by routing the same VIP to CentOS 1 or CentOS 2 based on the source subnet.

Configure ftp connections via the ltm by creating an ftp profile, pool, and virtual server attached to a vip, fronting a vsftpd backend, with tcpdump capture.

Configure f5 ltm to enable ipv6 on windows and vmware, establish ipv6 dual stack interfaces, and deploy ipv6 self and floating IPs with a http virtual server.