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Joe_Brandon
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Mar 25, 2022

Virtual Edition SmartNIC on vmware?

Hi everyone,

I was reading SmartNIC all the night and found document is talking about KVM and no other Hypervisors. isn't there any supported deployment for VE smartnic over vmware?

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  • Richard_Shuford's avatar
    Richard_Shuford
    Mar 29, 2022

    At the present time, the SmartNIC is supported only with the KVM hypervisor. F5 cannot comment on what the future support status may be for other hypervisor environments.

    Aside from the matter of the hypervisor, note that the SmartNIC hardware has power and cooling characteristics which may exceed the capacity of some server machines; prospective users should consult Intel's list of compatible platforms.

     

  • Joe_Brandon's avatar
    Joe_Brandon
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    Mar 28, 2022

    Guys

    I want to deploy F5 VE on vmware. can i use smartnic on vmware also ?

    please someone helps.

    • Richard_Shuford's avatar
      Richard_Shuford
      Ret. Employee
      Mar 29, 2022

      At the present time, the SmartNIC is supported only with the KVM hypervisor. F5 cannot comment on what the future support status may be for other hypervisor environments.

      Aside from the matter of the hypervisor, note that the SmartNIC hardware has power and cooling characteristics which may exceed the capacity of some server machines; prospective users should consult Intel's list of compatible platforms.

       

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