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NimbostratusWhen using vCMP is there a supported way to allocate a VLAN to a partition
We are using vCMP and have a requirement to separate live and test traffic. Using a separate vCMP instance is over kill, but what would work quite well, is to add a test partition to an existing vCMP ltm instance. However when you do that all the vlans you create on the host are in the common partition in the guest. Now I think that I can 'delete ' the vlan on the guest and recreate with the correct name and vlan id in the partition. But is this supported, as I would hate it to stop working during an upgrade. Is there an official F5 method of doing this, or is vCMP and partitions a step too far ? The next question, is there any plans to add the ability to move a vlan in a vCMP guest from common to a partition. We are currently on 11.2.1 HF6 , but moving to 11.4.1 soon.
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I'm not 100% certain if it is "official", but it is definitely supported. You will end up with a message in the logs saying that there is a mismatch in the logs, but I think it is more a diagnostic message than anything.
We run over 50 VLANs in this manner without problems, and have been doing so through various software revisions, starting at 11.2, moving up through 11.3.x, and finally settling on 11.4.0.
HamishCirrocumulus
I'd kill for the ability to move ANYTHING between partitions... But I suspect I'd not be first in line for that one...
Frank_30530Altocumulus
Seems to work fine in a TMOS 11.5.2 (HF1) guest also (Host running 11.5.1HF7).
