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SergioPontes_36's avatar
SergioPontes_36
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Aug 10, 2018

Throughput vs Resources in Virtual Edition

I wonder if there is a table or calculator to estimate the resource used in a virtualization environment, correlating with the licensed throughput. For example:   If I have a 3GB throughput licens...
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I_R_101_110
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Aug 10, 2018

Throughput is not a consideration to be made when provisioning an F5 VE. The only consideration to make is the number of modules you require which will tell you how much RAM you'll need. From there you need 1 CPU per 2GB RAM. Each F5 white paper discussing each flavor of hypervisor will have a chart and documentation that says such. This document concerning hyper-v for example:

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/bigip-ve-setup-microsoft-hyper-v-12-1-0/2.html