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How to get a F5 BIG-IP VE Developer Lab License

(applies to BIG-IP TMOS Edition) To assist operational teams teams improve their development for the BIG-IP platform, F5 offers a low cost developer lab license. This license can be purchas...
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Aug 29, 2017

I was looking to obtain a lab license to validate software updates and such, but from what I can tell, if I were to purchase this, it would be locked into a specific version. To me, this defeats the purpose of having a lab to begin with. If I'm mistaken, I apologize, but from comments such as "currently, I can not reuse the license on another ova version" and "Talking to F5 support while they could reactivate it for 12.0, they couldn't for 12.1." I'm hesitant to start the process of getting one just to find out that it's locked to a specific version once purchased.

 

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