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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
BIG-IQ Virtual Edition Supported Platforms
BIG-IQ Virtual Edition is supported on the following platforms.
VMware ESXi Supported Hypervisors
F5 supports these versions of BIG-IQ Virtual Edition (VE) on VMware.
BIG-IQ VE Version | Maximum Throughput | ESXi Version |
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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. |
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) |
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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 |
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 |
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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. |
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Citrix XenServer
F5 supports these versions of BIG-IQ Virtual Edition (VE) on Citrix XenServer.
BIG-IQ VE Version | Maximum Throughput | Citrox XenServer Version |
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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 |
Amazon Web Services
F5 supports these versions of BIG-IQ Virtual Edition (VE) on Amazon Web Services.
BIG-IQ VE Version | Throughput | AWS EC2 Instance Type |
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8.3.0, 8.2.0, 8.1.0, 8.0.0 | Determined by host and guest resource allocation, not by license. | m4.4xlarge, m4.2xlarge, m4.xlarge, m5.4xlarge, m5.2xlarge, and m5.xlarge |
7.1.0, 7.0.0, 6.1.0 | Determined by host and guest resource allocation, not by license. | m4.4xlarge, m4.2xlarge, and m4.xlarge |
Microsoft Azure
F5 supports these versions of BIG-IQ Virtual Edition (VE) in Azure.
BIG-IQ VE Version | Maximum Throughput | Azure Instance |
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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. | Standard_D4_v3 A4 mv2 A8_mv2 Standard_B4ms Standard_B8ms Standard_D4s_v3 Standard_D8s_v3 |
Google Cloud Platform
F5 supports these versions of BIG-IQ Virtual Edition (VE) on the Google Cloud Platform.
BIG-IQ VE Version | Maximum Throughput | Azure Instance |
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8.3.0, 8.2.0, 8.1.0 | Determined by host and guest resource allocation, not by license. | n1-standard-8 n2-standard-8 e2-standard-8 |