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Mario_Velazque1
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Nov 21, 2014

Vcmp clustering and features

Hi group

 

i have two blades 4300 inside a vipron 4480 chassis. the thing is that my costumer wants to enable LTM, AVR, ASM and AAM in the same instance, i have tried several combinations and i cannot put all of this modules in the same instace.

 

1) is there any way to provission all of this modules in one instance? 2) i have successfully provissioned two instances one with LTM, AVR and ASM and the other with LTM and AAM, the problem is how can i use this two instances as one? or there is other way to accomplish this?

 

thanks a lot

 

Mario

 

application acceleration manager
application delivery
ASM Advanced WAF
LTM
security
TMOS

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  • nitass's avatar
    nitass
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    Nov 22, 2014
    what version are you running? how much memory does vcmp guest have? sol14210: vCMP guests with less than 6.5 GB of memory support a maximum of two provisioned modules when running BIG-IP 11.3.0 or later https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/14000/200/sol14210.html sol13988: BIG-IP module provisioning exceptions https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/900/sol13988.html
  • Mario_Velazque1's avatar
    Mario_Velazque1
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    Nov 26, 2014
    i am running 11.5.1 my guests have 6.9G of memory(per Slot) and 5.9G of disk (per slot)
  • Hamish's avatar
    Hamish
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    Nov 27, 2014

    You need more memory per guest to privisino so many modules. The release notes for each version detail exactlt how much. e.g. from 11.5.1..

     

    " target="_blank">11.5.1 LTM Release Notes

     

    (Hint. You'll need 12GB per guest for 4 modules including AAM. 6.9GB is only going to let you have 2, and 8GB will let you have 3, and AAM by itself only)

     

    Supported platforms This version of the software is supported in the following configurations. For a list of VE hypervisor support, see the Virtual Edition and Supported Hypervisors Matrix

     

    Memory: 12 GB or more All licensable module-combinations may be run on BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE) guests provisioned with 12 GB or more of memory.

     

    Memory: 8 GB The following guidelines apply to VE guests configured with 8 GB of memory.

     

    No more than three modules should be provisioned together. Note that Global Traffic Manager (GTM) and Link Controller (LC) do not count toward the module-combination limit. Memory: Less than 8 GB and more than 4 GB The following guidelines apply to VE guests provisioned with less than 8 GB and more than 4 GB of memory.

     

    No more than three modules (not including AAM) should be provisioned together. Application Acceleration Manager (AAM) cannot be provisioned with any other module; AAM can only be provisioned standalone. Note that GTM and LC do not count toward the module-combination limit.

     

    Memory: 4 GB or less The following guidelines apply to VE guests provisioned with 4 GB or less of memory.

     

    No more than two modules may be configured together. AAM should not be provisioned, except as Dedicated.

     

  • Jim_43841's avatar
    Jim_43841
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    Dec 05, 2014

    You'll probably need to bump up the guest cpu count - currently this is the only knob available for increasing the memory allocation. For those blades, 6 core guests might be large enough, if not the other option is 12. Of course increasing that allocation means that the max guest count goes down proportionally.