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daveram_265365
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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 13, 2016

All good information. In their documentation, it states that you should have 1 mgmt IP per blade that a host covers. So if you have say a guest that is 4 vCPU across 4 blades (1 vCPU on each), then you need 4 IP addresses. I am not understanding why 4 IPs, are only one of the blades active at a time/