Manual : BIG-IQ Centralized Management Virtual Edition and Supported Hypervisors Matrix

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BIG-IQ Centralized Management

  • 8.3.0, 8.2.0, 8.1.0, 8.0.0, 7.1.0, 7.0.0, 6.1.0
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Original Publication Date: 06/08/2016

BIG-IQ Virtual Edition Supported Platforms

 

 

BIG-IQ Virtual Edition Supported Platforms

BIG-IQ Virtual Edition is supported on the following platforms.

Note: This matrix defines support for BIG-IQ Centralized Management versions at the time of publication. For the definitive listing of currently supported versions, refer to the BIG-IQ software support policy.

VMware ESXi Supported Hypervisors

F5 supports these versions of BIG-IQ Virtual Edition (VE) on VMware.

 
BIG-IQ VE Version Maximum Throughput ESXi Version
8.3.0, 8.2.0, 8.1.0, 8.0.0, 7.1.0, 7.0.0, 6.1.0 Determined by host and guest resource allocation, not by license. 6.x version and later.
Note: Using VMWare ESxi version v7.x may trigger certificate warnings, but these can be ignored.

Linux KVM, Xen Project, and OpenStack

F5 supports these versions of BIG-IQ Virtual Edition (VE) on Linux.

 
BIG-IQ VE Version Maximum Throughput KVM

(requires the KVM package) 

Xen Project 3.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, or 4.7

(requires the Xen Project package) 

8.3.0, 8.2.0, 8.1.0, 8.0.0, 7.1.0, 7.0.0, 6.1.0 Determined by host and guest resource allocation, not by license.

CentOS/RHEL 6.3 and later

Fedora 18 or Ubuntu 12.04 and later

Note: BIG-IQ VE supports Red Hat OpenStack Platform versions Mitaka and later, for versions of KVM running on any of the supported Linux distributions (except that IPv6 is not recommended on the eth0 (management) interface).

 

Note: For a Nutanix virtual machine, use the qcow2 (KVM) image. BIG-IQ 8.1.0.2 and later is supported in the Nutanix environment.

 

Microsoft Hyper-V

F5 supports these versions of BIG-IQ Virtual Edition (VE) on Microsoft Hyper-V.

 
BIG-IQ VE Version Maximum Throughput Hypervisor and Windows Version
8.3.0, 8.2.0, 8.1.0, 8.0.0, 7.1.0, 7.0.0, 6.1.0 Determined by host and guest resource allocation, not by license.
  • Hyper-V Server 2012 and later
  • Windows Server 2012 and later
Note: The Hyper-V feature role must be installed on the Windows Server.

Citrix XenServer

F5 supports these versions of BIG-IQ Virtual Edition (VE) on Citrix XenServer.

 
BIG-IQ VE Version Maximum Throughput Citrox XenServer Version
8.3.0, 8.2.0, 8.1.0, 8.0.0, 7.1.0, 7.0.0, 6.1.0 Determined by host and guest resource allocation, not by license. 7.2, 7.1, 7.0, 6.5