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phcd_170645
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Oct 10, 2014
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Admin Partitions - Device Workload - Reccomendations

Hi,

 

We are thinking of using Admin Partitions as a way to keep our testing environments separate. Does anyone know if the device will be able to handle say 30-100 partitions (I doubt we will go past 50)? It's not like we will be increasing the amount of traffic through the device substantially, it's just that the traffic will be going through the separate partitions.

 

Also, is there any technical documentation regarding the hardware specification of the machine for this type of configuration?

 

Thanks,

 

Phil

 

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  • Kevin_Davies_40's avatar
    Kevin_Davies_40
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    Oct 10, 2014

    The partitions are purely a naming scheme nothing more. So instead of /Common/node you will have /test5/node. In terms of limitations you are likely to hit a global configuration limitation rather than anything partition specific.

     

    There is no hardware specification related to partitions. It is supported on all platforms on all versions since it was introduced into the BIG-IP software.

     

    Note Well

     

    Creating a pool member inside a partition for a new server will automatically create the node in the same partition. While this is fine for servers only to be used by that environment, it is not for shared servers such as AD servers and the like. Create shared server nodes in /Common before building the pools that use them in a partition.

     

    • phcd_170645's avatar
      phcd_170645
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      Oct 10, 2014
      Do you know if there is a global configuration limit of any kind?
  • Kevin_Davies_40's avatar
    Kevin_Davies_40
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    Oct 10, 2014

    There is no real limit.

     

    https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/7000/200/sol7230.html

     

    In version 11.4 and above they included a Management provisioning option related to this. Once you get above 2000 objects you need to increase the management provisioning allocation to give you more memory.

     

    Here is some devcentral discussion...

     

    https://devcentral.f5.com/questions/maximum-number-of-virtual-servers-that-can-be-created-on-big-ip-ltm-2000s-appliance

     

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    phcd_170645
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    Oct 10, 2014

    Thanks, I'm sure these apply to the Lab Edition as well. I guess the performance of the Lab Edition is entirely dependent on the hardware it's running on so if we assign what resources we can it will help performance.

     

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      Kevin_Davies_40
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      Oct 11, 2014
      If this answers your question please tick the left of the post above. This lets people know the topic has been answered.