F5 OFFLOADING .. QUICK NOTES !!

 Overview

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Lets understand the meaning of Offloading. Offloading means F5 will do few of the tasks which has to be actually peformed by the Server, to improve server performance. F5 talks to the Server, Hey Let me do some of your tasks. It will keep you less burdened.

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What type of tasks we are talking about?

Tasks like SSL Offload, HTTP Compression etc.

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How do we achieve this?

We need to configure relevant Profiles like SSL Profile and then map it to the Virtual Server

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SSL Offload Types

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Client SSL Profile : It enables LTM to accept or terminate any client requests which are sent through Fully SSL encapsulated Protocol

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Server SSL Profile : It enables LTM to initiate secure connections to target web server

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Configuration Steps

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Install Key / Certificate pair on F5

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Configure Client SSL Profile using above installed Key / Certificate pair

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Configure Virtual server and attach above configured Client SSL Profile

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Virtual server will listen HTTPS based traffic, terminate the SSL traffic and pass it further to the pool member as per algorithm

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