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SynACk_128568
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Sep 22, 2015

Info required for Viprion

Hi All,

 

Need to clarify some basic info regarding Viprion(new to viprion) :

 

  1. i believe vcmp host and guest are on the same hardware . how are clusters and slots different ?

  2. is there any documentation regarding terms blades/slots .

     

  3. how basically viprion functions with vcmp and without vcmp ?

     

Thanks

 

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  • nathe's avatar
    nathe
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    Sep 23, 2015

    SynAck,

     

    Short answers:

     

    1. Yes, they are on the same hardware. vCMP host is, in essence, the hypervisor on which the guests are deployed. A slot is where you can add a blade (say 4 slots in a 2400). A cluster is a group of slots/blades so a blade is a cluster member.

       

    2. See Viprion Documentation

       

    3. With vCMP you provision multiple vCMP guests i.e. think of them as individual BIG-IPs running their own modules. Without vCMP a VIPRION device is one beefy BIG-IP where you can hot swap blades to add CPU/RAM/Hard Disk capacity.

       

    Hope this helps,

     

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