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NimbostratusSimulation of Webservers for an F5 Lab
Hi all;
Recently I attended a 2 day training course for F5 Administration (v11)
During the labs which were on a virtualised F5 image running through VMWare, the instructor had some sort of image running in the background, which was a image that simulated webservers, when creating our F5 config, and testing, we tested by hitting the IP addresses in our web browser, and it would load up like a RED page and a BLUE page, which would give us indicication of what was being returned, and simulated the webservers.
Basically my question is, is this something thats publically available? or something similar? so what when I am configuring my F5 test labs, I can simulate webservers, rather than having to create a new VM for each webserver?
Sorry if this is a little confusing, please let me know if you need more info
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natheCirrocumulus
NetworkTeam,
there are virtual training VMs on downloads.f5.com - i think they're the same as the instructor led training.
Select vLab and then vlab_files - you should see the LAMP zip file.
This should help.
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NetworkTeam_178Ah brilliant, thanks very much for the prompt response, I will check this out :)
- natheno probs. happy to help
- NetworkTeam_178
I cant seem to find this, do you have a more direct link? sorry to be a pain.
- nathehttps://login.f5.com/resource/login.jsp?ctx=719748 - Find a Download - vLab (at the bottom) - vLab files. Does that help?
- NetworkTeam_178
Appears to be missing from the list. I will contact F5 directly and see if they can point me on an alternative way, or to find out why its missing.
Many thanks for your help
- NetworkTeam_178
- natheOh i wonder if i see them as I work for an f5 partner. Unless you do then you might not get access to vLabs. If not, in essence the VM is just a *nix box with multiple IP addresses to simulate different web servers.
- NetworkTeam_178
Pretty sure we are a partnet, I have sent them an email so will see what they come back with.
:)
Lemna_148763Check https://servcentral.wordpress.com/2015/02/17/configuring-webservers-on-vmware-workstation-to-test-loadbalancing/. Hope this well help you. You can also download pre-configured .ova file here.
Janez5_206043Lemna thank you! I spent days making all from scratch. This make it so much easier. Happy studies :D- Mike_Vasquez_23
what is the root password for the Ubuntu-Trusty-Mini-v1.3.ova download above
Firefly_118299NO LONGER WORKS.
Is it possible to know what the new link is please ?
- NetworkTeam_178
Thanks for this :) I will take a look, looks promising :)
YURI-Tester_231Hi, thanks for the ova for the ubuntu lxde but am having a trouble as i have installed it using vmware fusion. it seems that am having a eth0 and eth1, eth1:1-5 is this usual as i cannot ping it on my mac terminal or do i need some tweaks. thanks again
DojsCirrostratus
Thanks for the information!
