How to: Configure multi-tenancy for BIG-IP Next on VELOS¶
Overview¶
Multi-tenancy
The ability to run more than one BIG-IP Next tenant on a blade.
Do NOT deploy Classic BIG-IP and BIG-IP Next tenants in the same partition/blade.Important: Irrespective of multi/single tenant, on HA set up, the tenant name must be the same for the active and standby tenants on both chassis.
Support numbers for multi-tenants
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
VLANs
It is possible to reuse internal and external VLANs across tenants.Data plane and control plane VLANs must be different for setting up HA.
Procedure¶
Configuring multi-tenancy is the same as How to: Install BIG-IP Next tenant on VELOS.
Example 2: HA set up with no sharing of VLANs¶
Networks | VLAN names | VLAN tags |
---|---|---|
Control Plane HA-1 | ha-cp-vlan-1 | 1000 |
Data Plane HA-1 | ha-dp-vlan-1 | 2000 |
Data Plane External-1 | internal-vlan-1 | 3000 |
Data Plane Internal-1 | external-vlan-1 | 4000 |
Control Plane HA-2 | ha-cp-vlan-2 | 5000 |
Data Plane HA-2 | ha-dp-vlan2 | 6000 |
Data Plane External-2 | internal-vlan-2 | 7000 |
Data Plane Internal-2 | external-vlan-2 | 8000 |