Lab 1.2: Define your Cloud Environment

The next step is to define your cloud environment so that BIG-IQ will be able to communicate with it and deploy F5 virtual edition. For this lab we will leverage a VMWare infrastructure

Cloud Provider Setup

In your BIG-IQ interface, go to Applications > Environments > Cloud Providers

Click on the Create button:

• Name: VMWareCloudProvider
• Provider Type: select VMWARE
• vCenter Hostname: 10.1.1.90

Click Save & Close. Now that your Cloud provider is setup, we can define your Cloud Environment. Go to Applications > Environments > Cloud Environments and click on the Create button

General Properties:

• Name: SSGClass2VMWareEnvironment
• Device Template: Select your previously created device template SSGSetupClass2
• Cloud Provider: Select your previously created Cloud provider VMWareCloudProvider

Warning

Careful everything is case sensitive here

VMWare Properties:

• DeployTo: Select ESXi Hostname and type: 10.1.1.9
• Datacenter: UDF
• Folder: Purple
• User: administrator@vsphere.local
• Password: Purpl3$lab
• VM Image: BIGIP-13.1.1-0.0.4.ALL_1SLOT_template
• Network Interface Mappings

Networks

VM Network

external

internal

Note

the Network Interfaces have been removed in 6.0.1, the mapping is done in the order the interfaces are configured on the VM template.

Warning

make sure the VMware tool are installed on the VM Image. Look at Create a BIG-IP VE clone template in BIG-IQ Knowledge Center for more details.

Click Save & Close

Note

with the Liberty release, we have a 1:1 mapping between the cloud provider and cloud environment. So a cloud provider can be used with only one cloud environment.

We have setup all the different element defining our Service Scaling Group and can trigger its deployment now