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Lab 7.1: VMWare BIG-IP VE Creation¶
Note
Estimated time to complete: 5 minutes
Lab environment access¶
If you have not yet visited the page Getting Started, please do so.
Tasks¶
- Prerequisites to this module:
- None
- Verify your BIG-IQ “Cloud Provider” for VMWare
Navigate to Applications > Environments > Cloud Providers
View the Cloud Provider object with your vCenter Hostname.
- Verify your BIG-IQ “Cloud Environment” for VMWare
Navigate to Applications > Environments > Cloud Environments
Settings for our already created Cloud Environment should be left unchanged.
Warning
- Several parts of the Cloud Environment you may not want to be configured because you are planning on using F5 Declarative Onboarding.
- Device Templates are used for Service Scaling Groups, not a single or cluster of BIG-IP.
- Ensure the IP Pool Alias Mapping: IP Pool is set to “None”.
- VM image: Follow K44134742 to install VMware tools on the VM template (required).
- Creating your BIG-IP in VMWare
Navigate to Devices > BIG-IP VE Creation > and choose Create
Fill in the Create BIG-IP VE Options.
| BIG-IP VE Creation | |
|---|---|
| Task Name | Deploy BIG-IP VE in VMWare |
| BIG-IP VE Name | bigipvm01 |
| Description | Created with BIG-IQ |
| Cloud Environment | VMWare-environment |
| Address | DHCP |
| Number of BIG-IP VE to Create | 1 |
Once all the attributes are configured Create the VE.
BIG-IQ gathers all the needed pieces from our Provider, Environment, and Creation options. This configuration is sent to the VMWare API for building the instance.
To verify the creation of the BIG-IP VE, you can login to the vCenter server
Note
vCenter credentials are administrator@vsphere.local / Purpl3$lab, and you MUST login to the Jump host to access vCenter
BIG-IP VE Creation is complete from here we can see BIG-IQ harvested the DHCP IP address.
Lab 2 of this module will cover Onboarding the newly created VMWare VE.
Note
If you try to open BIG-IP web interface, to bypass the Google Chrome “Your connection is not private” Warning, just type in blindly thisisunsafe.
See Class 2 Module 1 Lab 4 for help with Troubleshooting.