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Mike_Barrs_1062
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusF5 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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hoolioCirrostratus
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- 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_BhattmanPersonally 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 
Hamster_2020Easy guys- hooliomy e-performance is bigger than yours
lol - The_BhattmanYah easy... ;-)
woodpecker_1136It seems to be downloadable from askf5.com
r.woody
mr_skater99_640Where abouts on the site?- woodpecker_1136Product name is BIG-IP VE
Documentation: https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ve.html
Download: https://downloads.f5.com/ 
MW1Cirrus
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
