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aplovich_252762
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May 16, 2016

P2V Big-IP Migration

I'm currently working on migrating two physical Big-IP LTMs to two VEs. I was wondering if anybody had any experience with doing this.   Some things I was wondering about specifically are:   ...
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Marek_228998
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May 27, 2016

Depending on details of your case, there's a lot of great documentation on our sites:

 

You could start with:

 

BIG-IP LTM 11.6.1 Documentation https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/versions.11-6-1.html

 

Release Note: BIG-IP Virtual Edition 11.6.1 https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/releasenotes/product/relnote-ve-11-6-1.html

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/versions.11-6-1.html

 

BIG-IP Virtual Edition Setup Guide for VMware ESXi https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/bigip-ve-setup-vmware-esxi-11-6-0.html

 

Virtual Edition and Supported Hypervisors Matrix https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/ve-supported-hypervisor-matrix.html

 

Updating a BIG-IP VE Virtual Machine https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/bigip-ve-setup-vmware-esxi-11-6-0/3.htmlunique_90319829

 

Before your migration, you are advised to test your setup - as for the configuration of vNICs - if you're happy with your current connection's design, you could design them in the same way in the VE. As for the limiting yourself to only one vNIC will enforce you to utilize SNAT/AutoMap features. Some of licenses provides policers of traffic which will effectively limit your throughput.

 

--M .

 

  • aplovich_252762's avatar
    aplovich_252762
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    May 27, 2016
    Thanks for the links, currently looking through them. How would using 1vNIC force us to use SNAT/AutoMap? We're actually planning on using 3 vNICs: 1 for management, 1 for HA, and 1 for load-balancing traffic. The LB traffic vNIC is going to be hooked into a trunked port-group.
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    Marek_228998
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    May 27, 2016
    This is the case for most cloud providers that they do not allow for 802.1Q - instance's interface can only operate as untagged. If you do support Vlans on vNICs, it shouldn't create any problems.
  • JoshBecigneul's avatar
    JoshBecigneul
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    May 27, 2016
    We run 802.1Q tags down to the VE's vNIC. Our ESXi clusters use Cisco 1KV switching, which makes this easy. Trunks (port-channels) are not supported.