Free F5 Load Balancer Tutorial – Building F5 BIG-IP Lab for Free – VMware Workstation
Learn how to build your own F5 home lab using VMware Workstation. This free Udemy course is perfect for network engineers and aspiring F5 specialists.
This course is designed to assist you build your own F5 home lab using VMware Workstation
You will be guided to complete easy steps like downloading and installing necessary Software such as BIG-IP Virtual Edition and web servers.
I will demonstrate the tuning and configuration of most of the components
Also will be doing some basic testing just to make sure we are doing everything right.
F5 BIG-IP is the most widely implemented Application Delivery Controller globally. It became popular as a Load Balancer appliance but it it can also do many things such as SSL off-loading, Web Application Firewall, SSL VPN concentrator, DDoS Solution and many more.
Target Audience
Network Engineers
Aspiring Network Engineers
Network Automation Engineers
F5 Specialist
System Administrators
Security Administrators
Expectations
Lab is built using VMware Workstation. We will not talk about how to install it.
We will not talk about networking basics
We will not talk about F5 concept in detail
We will not talk about Python Automation
Nothing but to assist you build F5 BIG-IP Lab
This is a FREE Udemy course and we have limited time of 2 hours
Sections
Introduction
F5 BIG-IP Lab
Part 1: Installing Nested ESXi
Part 2: Deploying F5 BIG-IP
Part 3: Deploying Client and Server
Part 4: F5 BIG-IP Setup Utility
Part 5: Testing Load Balancing and API
Completion
Application Requirements
VMware Workstation
Putty – SSH
Remote Desktop Connection
Linux or MAC OS X (VM or Your working OS)
Provided OVA/OVF Templates
Nested VMware ESXi
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition 13.X, 14.X or the latest
Windows Client
Training Server
Minimum System Requirement
CPU – Quad Core
RAM – 8G for the Lab (4G for a single F5 BIG-IP)
Disk – 50G for the Lab
Who this course is for:
- Beginner Network
- Beginner Linux
- Beginner F5 BIG-IP
- Beginner Load Balancing
- Intermediate F5 BIG-IP
- Advanced F5 BIG-IP
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