How do I configure an F5 LTM VE Lab on my Laptop and drive traffic to it to generate logs?

What error message do you get when you try to remove the self IP?

You only really need two interfaces as you can manage the LTM via the external IP as well (provided that it's not facing the internet).

To allow this you can login to the shell on the LTM and issue this command (do NOT do this to any device connected directly to the internet without issuing any type of packet filter):

modify net self 192.168.239.2 allow-service add { tcp:443 }

Then you can manage the ltm through https://192.168.239.2 (if the vmware+client network settings are correct).

Now, the next step is to do make sure that your mac and LTM share the same network (see my previous post).

Mac config

VMNET1 192.168.239.1 Gives the MAC an interface and ip on the external VLAN
VMNET8 192.168.41.1  Gives the MAC an interface and ip on the internal VLAN

LTM Config:

192.168.239.2 Configure the external VLAN interface in vmware to belong to VMNET1
192.168.41.2  Configure the internal VLAN interface in vmware to belong to VMNET8

When your Macintosh are on the same network as the ltm you should be able to ping the LTM IPs.

/Patrik