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emgi_116429
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Jan 30, 2013

Licensing requirements for multiple contexts

Hello all,

 

My sincere apologies for asking a fairly basic question. This is a last resort effort I did spend quite some time trying to find an answer online and also tried contacting the sales dept. via email. No luck so far with either.

 

My question is whether there are additional licences required for using multiple contexts on a LTM 4200. With contexts I mean "different routing domains".

 

We recently ordered a set of new boxes and we want to start the installation shortly. Thing is that I need to raise a flag if we need additional budget to buy licenses and currently I am unsure wheter this is the case or not.

 

My initial requirement is three contexts, eventually this could increase to six. Regarding the performance we are absolutely on the safe side but I need to be sure about the licensing as well. From what I have seen so far, this topic is not mentioned anywhere in relation to licenses but it is always dangerous to assume that something is included when the vendor could charge for it.

 

Thanks for your time!

 

 

regards,

 

emgi

 

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7 Replies

  • What_Lies_Bene1's avatar
    What_Lies_Bene1
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    Jan 30, 2013
    You're welcome. It got me thinking actually, are there any license requirements related to guests on VIPRION? Would you know?
  • pete_71470's avatar
    pete_71470
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    Jan 30, 2013
    If you're referring to vCMP, we had the same question and our salesperson discovered: yes -- license to wake up vCMP and then a license for each LTM/etc. running as a guest.
  • Idjiwa_37700's avatar
    Idjiwa_37700
    Historic F5 Account
    Jan 30, 2013

    yes, last I heard the license must include the modules you will provision on the guests. This said, you only need that *one* license including vcmp and say ltm, asm, etc.

     

    Note that the license is only activated on the host, where you provision vcmp only. The relevant modules are then provisioned on the guest individually (no need to re-do license activation if that makes sense)

     

  • hoolio's avatar
    hoolio
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    Jan 30, 2013
    The guests inherit the license tokens from the host, so you only need a license for the host.

     

     

    Aaron