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rade5_74503
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Aug 10, 2015

Cisco ACE Contexts

Hi   We have a Cisco ACE blade environment that consists of various contexts i.e prod, dev, uat. We are thinking or moving to F5.   Is it possible to recreate these contexts in an F5 environmen...
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Hi,

 

As described by Stanislas you can have logical administrative Partitions and route domains. This allows to have different routing tables and access.

 

But there's another feature called VCMP.

 

In case you want to completely isolate your environments you should take a look at the higher models starting BIG-IP 5250v.

 

With VCMP if you have a ddos in Prod environment it wouldn't affect other environments because each VCMP instance (guest) has its own dedicated resources (from host system).

 

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Jun 30, 2016
Hi, I'm still trying to understand route domains. If the goal is to segregate networks/traffic, how is creating route domains different from creating vlans within different partitions? Wouldn't this achieve the same thing - vlan A can only be used by partition A users, vlan B can only be used by partition B users, etc.?