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Nimbostratus

Oct 10, 2014

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...

Kevin_Davies_40
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

Kevin_Davies_40

Nacreous

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.