Local Traffic Manager

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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) delivers your applications to users in a reliable, secure, and optimized way. You get the extensibility and flexibility of application services with the programmability you need to manage your cloud, virtual, and physical infrastructure. With BIG-IP LTM, you have the power to scale, automate, and customize application services faster and more predictably.

BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager sits between clients and hosts, managing traffic into and out of a data center by way of a pre-configured virtual server that points to a cluster. This gives control over network traffic; selecting the best host destination based on server performance, security, and availability. LTM can be deployed across the range of F5 Appliances running BIG-IP Software.

Key Benefits

Scale applications rapidly and reliably

Optimize for today’s web applications with HTTP/2 to ensure that your customers and users have access to the applications they need—whenever they need them.

Automate and customize with programmable infrastructure

Control your applications—from connection and traffic to configuration and management—with F5 iRules LX for network programmability, with Node.js language support in BIG-IP. Use the F5 Automation Toolchain for a declarative approach to efficiently provision, configure, and manage appliances.

Migrate to virtual and cloud environments

Realize operational consistency and comply with business needs across physical, virtual, and cloud environments with deployment flexibility and scalability.

Simplify deployment and management of apps

User-defined F5 iApps and FAST templates make it easy to deploy, manage, and gain complete visibility into your applications.

Secure your critical applications

Protect the apps that run your business with industry-leading SSL performance and visibility.

BIG-IP Platforms

Virtual Editionsof BIG-IP software run on commodity servers and support the range of hypervisors and performance requirements. VEs provide agility, mobility, and fast deployment of app services in software-defined data centers and cloud environments. See the BIG-IP System Hardware, VIPRION, VELOS, and Virtual Edition data sheets for more details. For information about specific module support for each platform, see the latest release notes on AskF5. For the full list of supported hypervisors, refer to the VE Supported Hypervisors Matrix.
BIG-IP iSeriesappliances deliver quick and easy programmability, ecosystem-friendly orchestration, and record-breaking, software-defined hardware performance. As a result, customers can accelerate private clouds and secure critical data at scale while lowering TCO and future-proofing their application F5 solutions can be rapidly deployed via integrations with open source configuration management tools and orchestration systems.
BIG-IP rSeriesappliances bridges the gap between traditional and modern infrastructures with a rearchitected, API-first platform designed to meet the needs of your traditional and emerging applications. The new F5 rSeries delivers unprecedented levels of performance, a fully automatable architecture, and the highest reliability, security and access control for your critical applications.
VELOSplatform is the next generation of F5’s industry-leading chassis-based systems, which delivers unprecedented performance and scalability in a single Application Delivery Controller (ADC). You can seamlessly scale capacity by adding modular blades in a chassis, without disruption, and VELOS allows a mix of traditional BIG-IP tenants as well as next-generation BIG-IP tenants in the future.
VIPRIONmodular chassis and blade systems designed specifically for performance and for true, on-demand, linear scalability without business disruption. VIPRION systems leverage F5’s ScaleN clustering technology so you can add blades without reconfiguring or rebooting.

Table 1. F5 BIG-IP Software License Modules Specifications

iSeries Models	LTM	DNS	APM	AFM	AWF	CGN	SSLO	PEM	BR	BT
F5-i2600	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
F5-i2800	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅
F5-i4600	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅
F5-i4800	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅
F5-i5600	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅
F5-i5800	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
F5-i5820-DF	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅
F5-i7600	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅
F5-i7600-D	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅
F5-i7800	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
F5-i7800-D	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅
F5-i7820-DF	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅
F5-i10600	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅
F5-i10600-D	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅
F5-i10800	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
F5-i10800-D	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅
F5-i11400-DS	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅
F5-i11600	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅
F5-i11600-DS	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅
F5-i11800	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
F5-i11800-DS	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅	✅
F5-i15600	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅
F5-i15800	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
F5-i15820-DF	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅
rSeries Models	LTM	DNS	APM	AFM	AWF	CGN	SSLO	PEM	BR	BT
F5-r2600	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌
F5-r2800	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅
F5-r4600	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅
F5-r4800	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅
F5-r5600	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	✅	✅
F5-r5800	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
F5-r5900	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
F5-r5920-DF	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅
F5-r10600	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅
F5-r10800	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
F5-r10900	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
F5-r10920-DF	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅
F5-r12600-DS	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅
F5-r12800-DS	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅
F5-r12900-DS	✅	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅	✅
VELOS Models	LTM	DNS	APM	AFM	AWF	CGN	SSLO	PEM	BR	BT
VELOS-CX410	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
VELOS-CX410-N	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
VIPRION Models	LTM	DNS	APM	AFM	AWF	CGN	SSLO	PEM	BR	BT
VIPRION-2200	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
VIPRION-2400	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
VIPRION-4480	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
VIPRION-4480	✅	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅