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Sep 10, 2016

Viprion (Running vCMP) vs BIG-IP 5000 Series (Running vCMP)

Just wondering, is there much difference in configuration between these two hardware platforms? I understand, they all run BIG-IP. My main areas is what differences are there and any gotchas? i.e. Vi...
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Sep 11, 2016

So I believe I understand a little more and that for each chassis (Please anyone correct me if this is incorrect), so in our example of a single F5 with 4 blades populated and 2 vCMP guests, we will have

 

* (1) - Cluster IP Address (For Management of Chassis) = 1

 

* (1 x of blades) - Cluster Member IP Address (For Management of the blade) = 4

 

* (1 x of vCMP guests) - Guest Management IP Address = 2

 

So in this single chassis configuration, we would have a total of

 

* (7) IP Addresses for management of the chassis, blades and vCMP guests

 

* (4) Ethernet Connections

 

If anyone can correct me if I am wrong, I would appreciate the help. Just how the documentation talks, it says a cluster IP address for each vCMP guest. In my example, I am taking that this is the guests management IP address (not in addition to this).

 

Also, not 100% sure of the connection for the chassis management network. Does the chassis just determine the first blades management port wiring is utilized for the chassis mgmt IP connectivity?

 

Thanks in advance for any help.