F5 VE on Proxmox
Has anybody been successful running F5 BIG-IP VE on Proxmox? Proxmox: Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Kernel: Linux 5.0.18-1-pve Architecture: x86-64 F5 VE: virtual edition 14.1.2.2 from downloads.f5.com I tried both qcow2 and .ova(scsi) licensing with trial license obtained from F5 single NIC mode According to https://clouddocs.f5.com/cloud/public/v1/matrix.html, Debian should be supported distribution. Following instructions on https://techdocs.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/bigip-ve-setup-linux-kvm-13-0-0/1.html. Creating new VM in Proxmox: OS: guest OS Linux, 2.6 Kernel, no media for OS Hard Disk: bus SCSI, VirtIO SCSI, NFS storage, QEMU format (qcow2), 100GB CPU: 4 sockets Memory: 8GB Network: bridge vmbr0 openvswitch with appropriate vlan tag, VirtIO, no firewall VM is created replacing just created qcow2 on remote storage with downloaded F5 qcow2 image. VM is started I am able to get prompt in Proxmox console, log in with default root account. But then mcpd keeps on restarting - constantly every few seconds. Logs show errors caused by permission errors. For some reason F5 is complaining that it cannot create "/shared/.snapshots_d/" because of permission problem. However permissions of "/shared" are OK. When I create .snapshots_d folder manually as root, mcpd no longer restarts, no more console errors... I run config utility to setup management IP/mask/gateway. As expected in single NIC mode, https port is automatically configured to 8443. I am able to reach GUI configuration utility and login as admin. Up until now everything looks fine. When trying to license the VM, I am able to generate dossier, also receive the generated license file from F5. But when I apply the license to the VM and click next, it acts as if nothing has happened. GUI keeps showing VE is not yet licensed. LTM logs says: err mcpd: License file open fails, Permission denied. "/config/bigip.license" has read permission for all and write for tomcat. Those are expected permissions for the license file. Funny though, content of /config/bigip.license is now actually populated with the correct new license. But "Registration Key" in "tmsh show sys hardware" is empty. There are several other file system related warnings or errors in logs.. so I suspect that the whole issue is with how F5 VE is accessing file system on Proxmox. But I don't know what to check or fix further. Is it even possible to run F5 VE on Proxmox? (although F5 clearly states it should be.) thx.
BIG-IP license throughput limit tracking
Hi all, I'm looking for a way to track the throughput limit on my BIG-IP appliances using iControl REST API. The problem that I'm having is that I have found a way to do this but I'm sure it will work for the license type that I have, where I am not sure about other license types. I would like for this tool to work if I change my license so this is where I could use your help. I have found perf_VE_throughput_Mbps property on . What I'm wondering if other license types will also contain limit in Mbps within the brackets after the property perf_VE_throughput_Mbps[5000]: { description: "Virtual Edition maximum throughput" }, Furthermore I only have virtual appliances and it would be great if somebody could tell me if this property is present on physical appliances as well and how does it look like. Any help with this would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
11.6 HTTP compression limit
Hi Guys, I have the default http compression license which provides me compression up to 50mbits, the thing is, I am using maximum 3Mbit/sec of http compression throughput (checking with statistics, it clear show plataform limit 1Gbps, License limit 48Mbps, Current Value 3Mbps, and checking the graph it never go beyond 20Mbps) but I am still getting the following message: Compression license limit of 50 Mbit/s exceeded today. How does this limit works? I thought that as far as I don't cross the 50Mbit/sec limit it should be fine, so I don't know why I am getting this error with only 3Mbit/sec throughput. Can someone help me to understand this? Thanks a lot!
vCMP guest status is "ModuleNotLicensed::LICENSE INOPERATIVE"
Hello All, One of the vcmp guest's status is "ModuleNotLicensed::LICENSE INOPERATIVE" Other guests are working fine. How to resolve the guest license issue? If the guest's license is propagated by host, why only 1 guest has license issue?License Revocation Limits?
I am planning to use some permanent lab licensed in a dynamic deployment environment. This means when the current session is finished I will tear down the infra and userevoke /sys license for the license key. So it can be used on next deployment. This plan heavily depends on the fact there is no limits to license revocation. Is anyone aware of restrictions on revocation and reuse of lab licenses?
