F5 multi-NIC and Microsoft Azure

Hello,

 

I'm trying to experiment on a lab environment in Microsoft Azure. The process that I followed was to type F5 in the dashboard and by choosing an F5 template I was able to create a virtual unit. The issue that I was experiencing was that the F5-Vm had ONLY one V-NIC which didn't help me at all in order to create Virtual servers and sync group. I tried to follow an F5 guide which states that by running the commands: modify sys db provision.1nic value forced_enable, modify sys db provision.1nicautoconfig value disable

 

gives you the option to modify interfaces and VLANs but I had no luck.

 

Moreover, I was looking through the network interfaces in f5-azure GUI and there was no option to add a VNIC. Finally I came to the conclusion that VNICs are dependent to the storage type someone chooses although there is no reference on that when you are about to select the storage type. Can someone confirm that or provide me with a solution on how to deploy an F5 VM in azure cloud ? I have already made some implementations by using esxi and hyperV but azure is something completely new to me.

 

Thanks in advance......