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Dash
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Aug 21, 2019

Create F5 partitions for different environments

I have a F5 that is being used by dev/qa department,everything is in the Common partition   Anyway there is a new project and bunch of new VIPs/vlan/Gateways,APIs I know last time there was confli...
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Niels_van_Sluis
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Aug 22, 2019

It's good to know there are administrative partitions and route domains. Most of the time these are used together to configure a flexible multi-tenant design.

 

Route Domains are like VRFs on Cisco and can be used to create an isolated network environment. So you can add VLANs, subnets and Self-IPs to a specific route domain.

 

Partitions are used to create administrative seperation between objects. This is useful to grant user access only to partitions for which they are authorized.

 

Here are some useful resources:

 

https://www.f5.com/services/resources/white-papers/multi-tenancy-designs-for-the-f5-high-performance-services-fabric

https://techdocs.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/tmos-concepts-11-5-0/8.html

https://techdocs.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/tmos-routing-administration-11-6-0/8.html

http://www.kareemccie.com/2017/10/f5-route-domains.html