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Herman2024
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Jan 21, 2025

How are memory and disk allocated to different modules on bigip appliance?

hi, when doing "Resource Provisioning", the memory and disk space are auto allocated to LTM and ASM are shown as below. The amount of Memory and disk is minimum requirement, right? When a huge number...
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Jan 22, 2025

mgmt module is like control plane (not data plane like ltm, asm. gtm/dns modules).
it handles config storing, ha config sync and other typical control plane roles.
it doesnt do packet forwarding or storing ltm session tables.

you can monitor mgmt memory usage using free of OTHER entry in statistics minus non TMM from resource provisioning.
bigip doesnt automatically increase mgmt memory size so youll need to monitor it.

mgmt large is just extra 500MB according to https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K26427018
so it's considered small for today hardware ram size

 

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Herman2024
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Jan 22, 2025

hi zamroni777 thank you so much for your kind advice! As shown on the screenshot about module memory statistics ? Is TMM memory shared by LTM, GTM... besides the amount allocated to each module under "Resource Provisioning"? Please  advise, thanks in advance!

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    zamroni777
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    Jan 23, 2025

    gtm is not within tmm.
    you can view it in Resource provisioning page.