I have been digging in the last months with a couple of deployments of F5 Load Balancers, and to be honest i didn´t have a clue about these interesting devices, and i foud it a really interesting subject. So i started to study in my free time and i have passed already the first exam of the two that you need to pass to achieve the first F5 certification "F5 BIG IP Certified Administrator" and i am on my way studying for the second one.
What i am going to explain here is how to build a Home Lab using VMware Workstation and GNS3.
You will need the following systems in your virtual lab:
- Two virtual machines running your favourite web server.
- One virtual machine running any operating system capable of running a web browser
- Two virtual machines running F5 Local Traffic Manager Virtual Edition.