F5 iRule Setup and Notes for VMware vCloud Director Accessibility

Recently, I’ve had several providers that have had to manage and/or update their F5 iRules for secure accessibility for vCD tenants and providers. F5 has a nice deployment guide here.

F5 provides a solid solution for VIPs and Load Balancer capabilities which I see often between many of our global VMware Cloud Providers.

With the new vCD HTML5 User Interface (UI), there has been several changes that required these modifications to provide direct access.

Typically, when utilizing a F5 appliance, some providers and tenants were seeing errors after a vCD upgrade.

Some saw behavior where the H5 interface was not accessible – receiving a message such as:

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