Manual Chapter :
Deployment Best Practices
Applies To:
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BIG-IP AAM
- 11.5.9, 11.5.8, 11.5.7, 11.5.6, 11.5.5, 11.5.4, 11.5.3, 11.5.2, 11.5.1
BIG-IP APM
- 11.5.9, 11.5.8, 11.5.7, 11.5.6, 11.5.5, 11.5.4, 11.5.3, 11.5.2, 11.5.1
BIG-IP GTM
- 11.5.9, 11.5.8, 11.5.7, 11.5.6, 11.5.5, 11.5.4, 11.5.3, 11.5.2, 11.5.1
BIG-IP Analytics
- 11.5.9, 11.5.8, 11.5.7, 11.5.6, 11.5.5, 11.5.4, 11.5.3, 11.5.2, 11.5.1
BIG-IP LTM
- 11.5.9, 11.5.8, 11.5.7, 11.5.6, 11.5.5, 11.5.4, 11.5.3, 11.5.2, 11.5.1
BIG-IP AFM
- 11.5.9, 11.5.8, 11.5.7, 11.5.6, 11.5.5, 11.5.4, 11.5.3, 11.5.2, 11.5.1
BIG-IP PEM
- 11.5.9, 11.5.8, 11.5.7, 11.5.6, 11.5.5, 11.5.4, 11.5.3, 11.5.2, 11.5.1
BIG-IP ASM
- 11.5.9, 11.5.8, 11.5.7, 11.5.6, 11.5.5, 11.5.4, 11.5.3, 11.5.2, 11.5.1
Best practices for deploying BIG-IP VE on Hyper-V
When deploying BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE) on a Hyper-V host, use these best practices.
| Issue | Recommendation |
|---|---|
| Redundant system configuration | Run the two units of an active/standby pair on separate physical hosts by manually creating a virtual machine peer on each host. |
| Resource reservations | BIG-IP VE is deployed with the hypervisor's default resource settings. The CPU reservation can be up to 100 percent of the defined virtual machine reserve. |
| Tagged packet transmission | Tagged packets cannot be transmitted from the guest itself. For VLAN tagged packets, configure the VLAN tag on the hypervisor for the specific interface associated with the VE. |
| Disable hyper-threading on older processors | F5 Networks recommends turning off Hyper-Threading Technology when
using host machines with Intel
Pentium 4 era processors. Doing so will prevent
possible timing issues with BIG-IP VE.
Important: Production licenses are not supported on Pentium 4 processors.
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