Virtual Clustered Multiprocessing™ (vCMP®) is a feature of the BIG-IP® system that allows you to run multiple instances of BIG-IP software on a single hardware platform. vCMP allocates a specific share of the hardware resources to each BIG-IP® instance, or vCMP guest.
A vCMP guest consists of a TMOS instance and one or more BIG-IP modules. The vCMP host allocates a share of the hardware resources to each guest; each guest also has its own management IP address, self IP addresses, virtual servers, and so on. In this way, each guest can effectively receive and process application traffic with no knowledge of other guests on the system.
F5 LBaaSv2 allows you to manage vCMP guests in the same way that you would a physical BIG-IP device or BIG-IP Virtual Edition. See the Configuration section for details.
When used with vCMP in a flat network or VLAN, the F5 agent can manage one or more vCMP hosts, each of which can have one or more guests. Guests on the same, or different, vCMP hosts can be configured to operate as a device service cluster. If a vCMP host fails (taking its guests with it), another vCMP host with guests configured as part of the cluster can take over managing its traffic. This provides a high degree of redundancy, while requiring fewer physical resources. vCMP also allows you to delegate management of the BIG-IP software in each instance to individual administrators. This means users who need to manage LBaaS objects don’t need to be given full administrative access to the BIG-IP, only to the host & guests allotted for their project(s).
VLAN and FLAT are the only ML2 network types supported for use with vCMP.Edit the Agent Configuration File.
Add the icontrol_vcmp_hostname. Multiple values can be comma-separated.
# If you are using vCMP® with VLANs, you will need to configure # your vCMP® host addresses, in addition to the guests addresses. # vCMP® Host access is necessary for provisioning VLANs to a guest. # Use icontrol_hostname for vCMP® guests and icontrol_vcmp_hostname # for vCMP® hosts. The plug-in will automatically determine # which host corresponds to each guest. # icontrol_vcmp_hostname = 192.168.1.245 #
Configure the icontrol_hostname parameter with the IP address(es) of the vCMP guest(s):
############################################################################### # Device Driver - iControl® Driver Setting ############################################################################### # # icontrol_hostname is valid for external device type only. # this setting can be either a single IP address or a # comma separated list contain all devices in a device # service group. For guest devices, the first fixed_address # on the first device interfaces will be used. # # If a single IP address is used and the HA model # is not standalone, all devices in the sync failover # device group for the hostname specified must have # their management IP address reachable to the agent. # If order to access devices' iControl® interfaces via # self IPs, you should specify them as a comma # separated list below. # icontrol_hostname = 10.190.7.232, 10.190.4.51 #
Set the advertised_tunnel_types parameter to vlan or flat, as appropriate for your environment.
Important
If the
advertised_tunnel_typessetting in the Agent Configuration File is left empty, as in the example below, theprovider:network_typein the ML2 plugin should be set to FLAT or VLAN.Example:
# Tunnel types # # This is a comma separated list of tunnel types to report # as available from this agent as well as to send via tunnel_sync # rpc messages to compute nodes. This should match your ml2 # network types on your compute nodes. # # If you are using only vlans only it should be: # advertised_tunnel_types = #
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