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BIG-IP VE: 40G Throughput from 4x10G physical NICs
Hello F5 Community, I'm designing a BIG-IP VE deployment and need to achieve 40G throughput from 4x10G physical NICs. After extensive research (including reading K97995640), I've created this flowchart to summarize the options. Can you verify if this understanding is correct? **My Environment:** - Physical server: 4x10G NICs - ESXi 7.0 - BIG-IP VE (Performance LTM license) - Goal: Maximize throughput for data plane **Research Findings:** From F5 K97995640: "Trunking is supported on BIG-IP VE... intended to be used with SR-IOV interfaces but not with the default vmxnet3 driver. [Need 40G to F5 VE] ┌──────┴──---------------------- ────┐ │ │ [F5 controls] [ESXi controls] (F5 does LACP) (ESXi does LACP) │ │ Only SR-IOV Link Aggregation │ │ ┌───┴───┐ ┌───┴───┐ │40G per│ │40G agg │ │ flow │ │10G/flow │ └───────┘ └───────┘Solved159Views0likes5Comments