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danieloliveira
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Jan 30, 2023
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vCMP logical interfaces throughput

Hello, we currently have 2 BIG-IP 15800 each one connected with 2 100Gb interfaces.  So i have  a guest vcmp with 8vCPU and 8 logical interfaces 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 and so on to 0.8. In the cli-console or...
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  • Brian_Van_Lieu's avatar
    Brian_Van_Lieu
    Feb 10, 2023

    The hypervisor is virtualizing networking so you will see an 'interface' for each vCPU.

    For standard VS's , typically a TMM can't process more then 10G of traffic, for fastl4 use cases the FPGA offload occurs before TMM.  

    Said another way, there isn't a hard cap on bandwidth to the guest but there are practical limits in place for most traffic use cases. 

    https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K03740927

     

     

Leslie_Hubertus's avatar
Leslie_Hubertus
Ret. Employee
Feb 07, 2023

Hey danieloliveira  - I saw that nobody had answered your question yet, so I featured your post in this week's Highlights article, and will ask a colleague for some help.