vCMP guest VLAN assignment question

You can't create VLAN's on a guest.

IIUC you're doing it this way because you don't want to change the IP's of the VS's that are cutting over. You're shifting them from the Cisco ACE to the BigIP.

You could however try creating the VS's etc on the guest ahead of time. Then at cutover time you just need to attach the already created VLAN to the vCMP Guest and on the guest create any required selfIP's (Note that for INBOUND traffic to VS's with defined IP's you don't need selfIP's. They're only mandatory for targeting the BigIP itself (i.e. as a router) or when big needs to route traffic OUT of the interface to somewhere else (So you can add a next-hop route or communicate with directly attached hosts on that connected VLAN).

The approach above should work. You don't need the VLAN to be present when creating VS's (In fact VS IP's don't even need to exist on attached VLANS as long as you have the appropriate routing setup in your network).

H