BIG-IP Next 20.1.0 Features¶
BIG-IP Next uses a combination of BIG-IP Next Central Manager, together with BIG-IP Next instances, to implement application delivery and security. The BIG-IP Next Central Manager manages the BIG-IP Next instances, assuming responsibility for all administrative and management tasks. The BIG-IP Next instances, responsible for data processing, provide robust automation capabilities, scalability, and ease-of-use for organizations running applications on-premise, in the cloud, or out at the edge.
Release Versions¶
BIG-IP Next LTM and BIG-IP Next Virtual Edition (VE) :: 20.1.0
BIG-IP Next Central Manager VE :: 20.1.0
F5OS-A :: 1.7.0
F5OS-C :: 1.6.2
BIG-IP Next Supported Hypervisors and Configuration¶
The following are the supported hypervisors and configuration for BIG-IP Next.
Note the following for F5OS-C 1.6.2:
Do not deploy BIG-IP and BIG-IP Next tenants in the same partition/blade.
For VELOS deployments, only 4 and 8 vCPUs tenants are supported on a single blade.
For VELOS deployments, there is a maximum of 8 vCPUs on a blade, either:
Two 4 vCPU BIG-IP Next tenants per blade
One 8 vCPU BIG-IP Next tenant per blade.
F5 rSeries:¶
rSeries 5000 appliances:
5600: 4, 8, and 12 vCPU BIG-IP Next tenants
5800: 4, 8, and 18
5900: 4, 8, and 26
rSeries 10000 appliances:
10600: 4, 8, and 24 vCPU BIG-IP Next tenants
10800: 4, 8, and 28
10900: 4, 8, and 36
VMware¶
VMware ESXi 7.0
2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, and 24 vCPUs are supported
KVM¶
KVM on Ubuntu 22.04
2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, and 24 vCPUs are supported
BIG-IP Next Central Manager Supported Hypervisors¶
VMware ESXi 7.0
Software Base Operating System¶
Ubuntu 22.04
BIG-IP Next Central Manager Management¶
Manage an rSeries BIG-IP Next instance from BIG-IP Next Central Manager¶
You can use a template to add a BIG-IP Next instance on an rSeries system to BIG-IP Next Central Manager to easily control all of the instance’s services and analytics with a single, unified management user interface.
Support for auto-failover upgrade for rSeries HA clusters¶
BIG-IP Next Central Manager supports upgrading to the latest release of rSeries HA clusters with the auto-failover upgrade feature. Both the primary and secondary instances of the HA cluster instance are upgraded when an upgrade is triggered on a rSeries HA cluster instance.
Support for auto-failover upgrade for VELOS HA clusters¶
BIG-IP Next Central Manager supports upgrading to the latest release of VELOS HA clusters with the auto-failover upgrade feature. Both the primary and secondary instances of the HA cluster instance are upgraded when an upgrade is triggered on a VELOS HA cluster instance.
Role-based User Access¶
BIG-IP Next Central Manager allows you to limit user access to specific BIG-IP Next instance features. You do this by assigning access based on job responsibilities, or roles. When you associate a user (or group of users) with one or more role, they have privileges only to the areas that are explicitly associated with that role (or roles).
The built-in roles are:
Administrator
Instance Manager
Application Manager
Certificate Manager
Security Manager
Auditor