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ShawnFre_259195
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Apr 04, 2017

Is it possible to rename interfaces on BIGIP Virtual Edition? Other network interface questions.

Hello, I have created a KVM based VM of BIGIP 12.0.0 using the Virtual Edition qcow2 file downloaded here which I am using to do development work on. The problem is the interfaces that are created a...
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Apr 06, 2017

BIG-IP Virtual Edition 12.1.0 and Linux KVM: Setup manual says this:

 

Virtual machine network interfaces

When you deploy BIG-IP® VE, a specific number of virtual network interfaces (vNICs) are available.

 

For KVM, three virtual NICs are required, at a minimum. More NICs are required if the high availability option is configured.

 

Each virtual machine can have a maximum of 10 NICs. You can deploy these as either:

 

A management interface and 9 dataplane interfaces, orA management interface, 8 dataplane interfaces, and an HA interface.

 

I know of no way to change VE interface numbering. The behavior I have experienced with VMware and Hyper-V is that bigip VE automatically numbers its interfaces based on the order the virtual NICs are assigned to the VM in the hypervisor so that the first virtual nic becomes the mgmt interface, the second nic is 1.1, etc..