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I read an article on MS technet today and learned two useful things about the drawbacks of WNLB.<br />
-WNLB can't test if certain services are up and running on the servers. If the IP address is alive WNLB is happy.<br />
&nbsp; F5 on the other hand can do tests on protocols, on specific url:s, try to log in and much more.<br />
&nbsp; This is a very important function that by itself would have made me coose something other than WNLB. <br />
-WNLB can do source IP affinity while F5 can do that and a few more persistence moethods. Like cookie-insert, cookie-learning, SSL-session... and more.
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I read an article on MS technet today and learned two useful things about the drawbacks of WNLB.
-WNLB can't test if certain services are up and running on the servers. If the IP address is alive WNLB is happy.
  F5 on the other hand can do tests on protocols, on specific url:s, try to log in and much more.
  This is a very important function that by itself would have made me coose something other than WNLB.
-WNLB can do source IP affinity while F5 can do that and a few more persistence moethods. Like cookie-insert, cookie-learning, SSL-session... and more.

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Hello Experts, <br />
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We are in the middle of choosing the right F5 product for our hosted services we provide to our customers.<br />
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LTM (local traffic manager) is one of the features that I am not so sure about. I know it mainly provides load balancing, but what makes it so different from for example Windows load balancing. What benefits does LTM give me for my environment?<br />
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Your kind input and advice will be much appreciated.<br />
<br />
Jimmy
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Hello Experts, 

We are in the middle of choosing the right F5 product for our hosted services we provide to our customers.

LTM (local traffic manager) is one of the features that I am not so sure about. I know it mainly provides load balancing, but what makes it so different from for example Windows load balancing. What benefits does LTM give me for my environment?

Your kind input and advice will be much appreciated.

Jimmy

Benefit of F5 BigIP Local Traffic Manager

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