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Karthik_52792
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Mar 01, 2011

Adding Machines to VLAN in Big-IP Virtual Edition.

Hi,

I am very new to F5. I am on Big-IP Virtual Edition on VMware workstation 7. I wanted to start off but I got struck with setting up VLANs. I am on a LAN 192.168.6.x. I have tried creating external and internal VLAN's ( ifconfig shows external IP 192.168.4.1 and interal self ip 192.168.5.1 ). How do I bring a machine inside the VLAN ? .. The self IP is not pingable (obviously). My assumption was to bring a machine to external VLAN, it should have the gateway to be 192.168.4.1 and ip 192.168.4.xx and similarly for internal VLAN. Obbioulsy 192.168.5.1 and 4.1 wont be pingable from 6.xx. How do i setup external and internal VLANs and bring machines inside them ??

 

 

 

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  • JRahm's avatar
    JRahm
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    Mar 01, 2011
    I usually add the first bigip nic, which is the admin interface, to the nat network within VMware Workstation's virtual network editor. For the internal/external vlans, I add them somewhere in the vmnet2-vmnet7 range and make sure the IPs assigned in those subnets work with my external (to my machine) subnets so I can still get to external resources. I make sure I connect a host virtual adapter to each network I assign the LTM so I can get to each interface from my desktop. Then with snat automap, I can run a client and server on my same desktop. If you want more virtual machines running, just add them to the vlans you assigned to the BIGIP. There is a lot of flexibility. Here are a couple articles we wrote that might help you get started:

     

     

    http://devcentral.f5.com/Tutorials/TechTips/tabid/63/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1082331/Whaddya-Mean-LTM-VE-Only-Has-Two-Interfaces.aspx Click Here

     

     

    http://devcentral.f5.com/Tutorials/TechTips/tabid/63/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1082333/Laptop-Load-Balancing-For-The-Developer-With-BIG-IP-LTM-VE.aspx Click Here

     

     

    http://devcentral.f5.com/Tutorials/TechTips/tabid/63/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1084344/Configuring-a-multi-server-Testing-Environment-with-VMWare-Teams-and-BIG-IP-LTM-VE.aspx Click Here

     

     

  • apara_5691's avatar
    apara_5691
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    Jul 29, 2011
    I'm trying to perform a configuration like that but I can't!!

     

     

    At now, I just want to define a VS to test some iRules code, no pools or nodes are required for my particular case

     

     

    After deploying BIG-IP LTM 10.1.0 VE on VMware workstation, I configure the VM Network adapters like this:

     

    NIC1 (mgmt) -> VMNET8 (NAT)       (192.168.174.x)
NIC2        -> VMNET3 (host only) (192.168.200.x)
NIC3        -> VMNET4 (host only) (192.168.201.x)
    VMnet 3 and 3 are connected to a host virtual adapter as you say say, I successfully ping both form my computer (192.168.200.1 and 192.168.201.1) but I can't from the BIG-IP. Internal and External VLANs are both defined and Self IPs created (192.168.200.2 and 192.168.201.2) but it does not work, I can't reach the VS I've defined

     

     

    Any suggestions?

     

     

    Thanks in advance and best regards,

     

     

    Alberto