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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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alex100_194614
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Sep 14, 2016

Actually, you would need 5 IP addresses. You would also need cluster mgmt IP, the one you would normally use to connect to VCMP host. If you are stretching one vcmp guest across 4 blades, the way it works is each blade is running a virtual big-IP instance and all 4 "Virtual Machines" are working as a team processing the traffic. Instance runnig on primary blade would also act as orchestrator...