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Mike_Barrs_1062
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Mar 27, 2008

F5 Virtual Appliance

When is F5 going to develop a Virtual Appliance for LTM, GTM, and other options. One of your competitors, Zeus (http://www.zeus.com/products/zxtmva/) has had one for over two years.

 

 

I am a happy F5 customer but would like more options. A virtual appliance would provide a way for customers and potential customers to demo the products with no hardware required and would be perfect for development & test environments. Zeus allows limited usage of their virtual appliance for dev/test environments for free - hint hint F5.

 

 

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  • hoolio's avatar
    hoolio
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    Dec 17, 2009
    So 10.1 is up on downloads.f5.com. Does anyone know if there is an announcement about running it in vmware pending?

     

     

    Thanks,

     

    Aaron
  • Charlie_Cano_10's avatar
    Charlie_Cano_10
    Historic F5 Account
    Dec 18, 2009
    The official word is that F5 will be coming out with a virtual appliance version of LTM in the near future, but no release date or other details have been announced at this time.
  • The_Bhattman's avatar
    The_Bhattman
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    Jan 14, 2010
    Personally press releases stating performance does not cut it anymore . It's better to bring in the device and software and test it in your lab with your equipment.

     

     

    Bhattman
  • woodpecker_1136's avatar
    woodpecker_1136
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    Feb 02, 2010
    Product name is BIG-IP VE

     

     

    Documentation: https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ve.html

     

    Download: https://downloads.f5.com/
  • MW1's avatar
    MW1
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    Feb 04, 2010
    Do you still need to obtain a trial license from F5 for this? I noticed in the release note it states:

     

     

    In the Base Registration Key box, type the registration key you obtained earlier, using upper-case only.

     

     

    However I ddin't see it state how to obtain the base reg key or it even mentioned earlier in the release note. As its only a 90 day trial I don't want to start it before I've definately got time to devote to testing it if I'm only allowed one trial key etc etc