Welcome to the BIG-IP and BIG-IQ trials page! This will be your jumping off point for setting up a trial version of BIG-IP VE or BIG-IQ VE in your environment.
As you can see below, everything you’ll need is included and organized by operating environment — namely by public/private cloud or virtualization platform.
To get started with your trial, use the following software and documentation which can be found in the links below.
Upon requesting a trial, you should have received an email containing your license keys. Please bear in mind that it can take up to 30 minutes to receive your licenses.
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BIG-IP VE and BIG-IQ VE
When you sign up for the BIG-IP and BIG-IQ VE trial, you receive a set of license keys. Each key will correspond to a component listed below:
BIG-IQ Centralized Management (CM) — Manages the lifecycle of BIG-IP instances including analytics, licenses, configurations, and auto-scaling policies
BIG-IQ Data Collection Device (DCD) — Aggregates logs and analytics of traffic and BIG-IP instances to be used by BIG-IQ
BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Access (APM), Advanced WAF (ASM), Network Firewall (AFM), DNS — Keep your apps up and running with BIG-IP application delivery controllers. BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and BIG-IP DNS handle your application traffic and secure your infrastructure. You’ll get built-in security, traffic management, and performance application services, whether your applications live in a private data center or in the cloud.
Select the hypervisor or environment where you want to run VE:
VE keys will work on various versions. F5 supports at least v13 in all cloud providers but preferably I would go with the latest 14.1.2.x version for stability or 15.1.x for latest and greatest. If you need features found in the 15.1 release, then go with the latest 15.1.x.x release.
Hello,
What was not working was the download of ova file, from downloads files.
Meanwhile it's working right now, but it was a f5 webpage issue.
Rui Branco
A quarta, 4/11/2020, 23:21, DevCentral Community escreveu:
In many cases the f5 github templates for AWS cloudformation etc. are the best option than directly doing it with images https://github.com/F5Networks .
Hi, Just a quick question. I successfully installed both BigIQ and BigIP on my esxi. I applied and activated the license of BiqIQ and then put the license of BigIP on license management of BigIQ to be assigned to my BigIP vms. When i try to assign and activate the license to BigIP via BigIQ i got an error.
Error on server request
The system returned an unexpected error (400 Bad Request). Unable to contact 192.168.100.101. Please check the provided credentials.
No problem on the network connection and credentials as i can login to BigIP via gui and ssh. Is this feature supported on VE Trial License? If not can i request to revoke the assigned trial license to me so that i can redo my lab. Thanks.
If you have a separate issue, different from this compliance check issue, please comment on the details you are seeing (broken links?) so we can help you resolve that issue.
Hi @ragunath154 you'll want to re-request the licenses and pick a regular VE, not the Per App VE. It's a bit confusing but all of the guidance above is meant for the full Virtual Edition (VE).
