Nova Flavors for BIG-IP Virtual Edition images

BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE) images come in different sizes. Use the table below to determine the correct “f5 flavor” for your image.

Important

Beginning with OpenStack Newton, there are no default Nova flavors. The Nova flavors shown in the table apply to OpenStack Mitaka and earlier.

F5 Nova flavors
BIG-IP version BIG-IP VE Image F5 flavor Nova Flavor Flavor Elements
11.5, 11.6 LTM_1SLOT f5-1slot m1.medium 4096M RAM, 20GB disk, 2vCPUs
LTM f5-ltm m1.medium 4096M RAM, 40GB disk, 2vCPUs
ALL f5-all m1.xlarge 8192M RAM, 145GB disk, 4vCPUs
12.0, 12.1, 13.0 LTM_1SLOT f5-1slot m1.medium 4096M RAM, 20GB disk, 2vCPUs
LTM f5-ltm m1.large 4096M RAM, 50GB disk, 2vCPUs
ALL f5-all m1.xlarge 8192M RAM, 160GB disk, 4vCPUs [1]

[1]160GB is the largest possible disk size for a BIG-IP VE image as of v13.0.0. See the BIG-IP VE Linux KVM Setup Guide for more information.