Provision BIG-IQ (VMware)

Description:

This lab will deploy both BIG-IQ CM and DCD in VMware ESXi. Refer to below AskF5 link if you need further details.

AskF5 Reference

Step 1: VMware ESXi Requirements

The vSphere virtual machine guest environment for the BIG-IQ Virtual Edition (VE), at minimum, must include:

  • 4 virtual CPUs
  • 16 GB RAM
  • Important: When you provision the amount of RAM allocated to the virtual machine, it must match the amount of reserve RAM.
  • 1 VMXNET3 virtual network adapter
  • 1 virtual network adapter
  • At least 128GB disk