Free F5 Load Balancer Tutorial – Building F5 BIG-IP Lab for Free – VMware Workstation

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Last updated on April 15, 2025 12:54 am

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.

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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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