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Dec 14, 2011

Bigip runs on Oracle Virtual Server

Greetings,   I installed and configured a BigIp LTM VE on a Virtual Machine hosted by Oracle Virtual Server. I use it to mimic a production environment into a development lab for testing and troub...
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Dec 27, 2011
Thank You for Sharing! This is good news for folks who must run Oracle Virtual Server or who have been thinking about it. Do you happen to have the version of Oracle Virtual Server that you're using BIG-IP with? It's not supported by F5, but it'd be great to know.

 

 

(Oracle Virtual Server is a Xen based Hypervisor, and as such BIG-IP 10.2.2 or later will probably work on it)

 

 

I see two potential issues down the road with this configuration -

 

1) it should have two vCPU's defined - one will work for lab, but higher throughput levels may incur undesired behavior with the VM left to a single vCPU.

 

 

 

2) An 80GB disks is fine, but the stock 10.2.x disk size if 40GB (while 11.x is 100GB). This may present an upgrade issue down the road. (see the 10.x -> 11.x upgrade guide section of the 11.x VE manuals for more information)

 

 

 

3) There is an ide.ova specifically created for deployment on Xen hypervisors - but if I remember correctly, the Oracle VS doesn't support OVA (or at least, the version I looked at many moons ago did not work with OVA) - OVA might save some time for future deployments.