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.

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.

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.

For a comprehensive list of fixes, behavior changes, and known issues for this release, refer to the BIG-IP 13.0.0 Release Information page.

Single NIC

Single NIC functionality is now available for all hypervisors. In a single NIC configuration, networking objects (vNIC 1.0, a VLAN, and a self IP) are created automatically and the port for the BIG-IP Configuration utility is set to 8443.

Cloud-Init

Cloud-Init is now enabled for BIG-IP VE for all hypervisors except Azure. For details, see the Cloud-Init documentation on Askf5.com.

IAM Roles instead of IAM Users

To enable communication between BIG-IP VE and AWS, you can now use IAM roles, rather than using an IAM user and entering credentials in the BIG-IP Configuration utility.

Management MTU

If your environment has DHCP, MTU will now automatically be set for the management interface.

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