Viprion Blade Management IP Addresses

Sulaiman,

F5 best practice is to allocate IP Addresses to all blades, irrespective of whether the slots are populated. Also, any new guests should get IP addresses across all blades too. This is so you don't lose address space further down the line when you add new blades/guests.

Cabling is preferred but not essential, if i'm right on this or course. There is a management back plane so communication to other mgmt IPs can go via this route, if a dedicated cable doesn't exist.

Bear in mind that if new blades aren't given a management address and the chassis reboots, if one of these blades becomes primary then you'll lose access to the primary management IP address. You can't dictate which blade is primary so this is a risk.

Same for guests too, they have a concept of primary blade. If no IP exists on a blade the the address can't "float" to this blade.

Hope this helps,

N