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eesun_276598
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Aug 17, 2016

Relation among cluster member, blade, nodule, slot and partition

Hi We are discussing about F5 host, guest and vCMP. I know these terms, but I am not very clear about the relation among cluster(member), blade, nodule, slot and partition. Any one can explain it? Thank you

 

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  • boneyard's avatar
    boneyard
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    Aug 21, 2016

    you seem to be asking a lot of basic f5 questions, which of course is good but makes me wonder if it wouldn't be smarter to have a chat with your f5 sales team or an f5 partner. you will get some answers here but for the big picture it might be useful to have a proper chat and not a few some questions that pop up.

     

    cluster(member) - a big-ip in a DSC (device service cluster)

     

    blade - within a viprion chasis you have one or more blade, see those a multiple big-ip working together

     

    module - probably one of the software modules you can use: LTM, ASM, ...

     

    slot - installation target for the tmos software, you can have several of these

     

    partition - you can have multiple management sections in a big-ip, see the drop down in the right top corner.

     

    if you search ask.f5.com you will find much more information about these.