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BIG-IP Virtual Edition Supported Platforms¶

BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE) is supported on the following platforms. (This document was formerly
named Virtual Edition and Supported Hypervisors Matrix.)

BIG-IP VE supports all F5 modules. These modules are LTM, AFM, APM, ASM, AAM, BIG-IP DNS
(formerly GTM), Secure Web Gateway Services, IP Intelligence Services, PEM, and Carrier-Grade
NAT (CGNAT).

Hypervisors¶
VMware ESX, ESXi, and vCloud Director¶
F5 supports these versions of BIG-IP VE on VMware.

Maximum ESXi vCloud Director

BIG-IP VE version throughput version version
14.1.0 40 Gbps 6.0 and No longer supported
later
14.0.0, 13.1.1, 13.1.0, 13.0.0 HF3 40 Gbps: ESXi 6.0 5.5 and All 5.x versions later
and later later than 5.5

10 Gbps: ESXi 5.5

and later

13.0.0 * 10 Gbps 5.1 and All 5.x versions later

later than 5.5
12.1.4, 12.1.3, 12.1.2, 12.1.1, 12.1.0, 10 Gbps 5.1 and All 5.x versions later
12.0.0 later than 5.5
11.6.3, 11.6.2, 11.6.1 10 Gbps 5.0 and All 5.x versions later
later than 5.5
11.5.5, 11.5.4, 11.5.3, 11.5.2, 11.5.1 10 Gbps 5.0 and All 5.x versions later
later than 5.5

* For vCloud Director, 13.0.0 HF2 is the last supported version.

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Licenses are available for throughputs of 10 Gbps, 5 Gbps, 3 Gbps, 1 Gbps, 200 Mbps, or 25
Mbps. For throughput higher than 10 Gbps, high performance licenses are available.
10 Gbps throughput and higher require SR-IOV.
All versions of BIG-IP VE support SR-IOV and TSO, except BIG-IP VE version 11.6.1 and prior,
running on ESXi 5.0.
vCloud Director supports TSO only (no SR-IOV).

Linux KVM, Xen Project, and OpenStack¶

F5 supports these versions of BIG-IP VE on Linux.

Supported Linux distributions are: CentOS/RHEL 6.3 and later, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and later, Debian
7.2 and later.

F5 supports upgrades that are backward compatible with these versions.

BIG-IP VE version Maximum throughput

14.1.0, 14.0.0, 13.1.1, 13.1.0, 13.0.0 HF3 40 Gbps - KVM on CentOS/RHEL 6.3
and later

10 Gbps - all others

13.0.0 10 Gbps
12.1.4, 12.1.3, 12.1.2, 12.1.1, 12.1.0, 12.0.0 10 Gbps
11.6.3, 11.6.2, 11.6.1 10 Gbps
11.5.5, 11.5.4, 11.5.3, 11.5.2, 11.5.1 10 Gbps

Licenses are available for throughputs of 10 Gbps, 5 Gbps, 3 Gbps, 1 Gbps, 200 Mbps, or 25
Mbps. For throughput higher than 10 Gbps, high performance licenses are available.
For maximum performance, use SR-IOV.
F5 supports Red Hat OpenStack Platform version 9 and later, for versions of KVM running on any
of the supported Linux distributions.

Microsoft Hyper-V¶
F5 supports these versions of BIG-IP VE on Microsoft Hyper-V.

Maximum
BIG-IP VE version throughput Windows versions

14.1.0, 14.0.0, 13.1.1, 3 Gbps Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2 and
13.1.0, 13.0.0 Update 1, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server
2008 R2 SP1
12.1.4, 12.1.3, 12.1.2, 12.1.1, 3 Gbps Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2 and
12.1.0, 12.0.0 Update 1, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server
2008 R2 SP1
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Maximum
BIG-IP VE version throughput Windows versions
11.6.3, 11.6.2, 11.6.1 3 Gbps Windows Server 2012 R2 and Update 1, Windows
Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
11.5.5, 11.5.4, 11.5.3, 3 Gbps Windows Server 2012 R2 and Update 1, Windows
11.5.2, 11.5.1 HF1 Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

Licenses are available for throughputs of 3 Gbps, 1 Gbps, 200 Mbps, or 25 Mbps.

Citrix Hypervisor (formerly Citrix XenServer)¶

F5 supports these versions of BIG-IP VE on Citrix Hypervisor.

 Note

14.1.0 is the last BIG-IP VE release for Citrix Hypervisor.

BIG-IP VE version Maximum throughput Citrix XenServer versions

14.1.0, 14.0.0, 13.1.1, 10 Gbps 7.2, 7.1, 7.0, 6.5, 6.2 RTM and SP1
13.1.0, 13.0.0
12.1.4, 12.1.3, 12.1.2, 10 Gbps 7.1, 7.0, 6.5, 6.2 RTM and SP1
12.1.1, 12.1.0, 12.0.0
11.6.3, 11.6.2, 11.6.1 10 Gbps 7.1, 7.0, 6.5, 6.2 RTM and SP1
11.5.5, 11.5.4, 11.5.3, 10 Gbps 7.1, 7.0, 6.5, 6.2 RTM and SP1
11.5.2, 11.5.1
EM VE 3.1.1 Determined by host and Not supported
guest resource allocation, not
license

Licenses are available for throughputs of 10 Gbps, 5 Gbps, 3 Gbps, 1 Gbps, 200 Mbps, or 25
Mbps.
10 Gbps max throughput requires SR-IOV.
All versions of BIG-IP VE support SR-IOV and TSO.

Cloud Platforms¶
Amazon Web Services¶
F5 supports these versions of BIG-IP VE in AWS:

14.1.0, 14.0.0
13.1.1, 13.1.0.2 - 13.1.0.7, 13.0.0

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12.1.4, 12.1.2, 12.1.1, 12.1.0, 12.0.0

11.6.2, 11.5.4, 11.5.1

F5 recommends at least 2 vCPU and 4 GB memory. For each additional vCPU, add at least 2 GB of
memory.

F5 recommends these instance types for BIG-IP VE.

LTM/DNS
AWS instance type (Good) All (Better/Best)
t2.medium, t2.large X^ X^
m3.medium X^  
m3.large X X
m3.2xlarge X X*
m4.large, m4.xlarge X X
m4.2xlarge, m4.4xlarge, m4.10xlarge X X*
m5.large, m5.xlarge, m5.2xlarge (13.1.1 and later) X X
m5.4xlarge (13.1.1 and later) X X*
m5.12xlarge X X*
m5.24xlarge (for 20 Gbps throughput) X X
c3.xlarge, c3.2xlarge X X
c3.4xlarge, c3.8xlarge X X*
c4.xlarge, c4.2xlarge X X
c4.4xlarge, c4.8xlarge X X*
c5.large, c5.xlarge, c5.2xlarge (13.1.1 and later) X X
c5.4xlarge (13.1.1 and later) X X*
c5.9xlarge X X*
c5.18xlarge (for 20 Gbps throughput) X X

^ Recommended for 25 and 200 Mbps only.

* Recommended if you are running ASM or APM.

BYOL (Bring Your Own License) production licenses are available for maximum throughput
speeds of 20 Gbps, 10 Gbps, 5 Gbps, 3 Gbps, 1 Gbps, 200 Mbps, or 25 Mbps (11.5.1 and later).
Hourly/annual licenses are not available for 20, 10, and 3 Gbps.
Throughput depends on a variety of factors, including AWS instance type and region, the
con guration of BIG-IP (whether it’s processing internal or external tra c), whether you are using
AWS cluster and enhanced networking, etc.
Choose an image with 2 boot locations if you expect to upgrade BIG-IP VE in the future. If you
do not need room to upgrade (if you intend to create a new instance when a new version of BIG-
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IP VE is released), choose an image with 1 boot location.

BIG-IP VE supports AWS CloudHSM.
BIG-IP VE is supported on AWS GovCloud and on the AWS Marketplace for the U.S. Intelligence
Community (IC).

Microsoft Azure¶
F5 supports these versions of BIG-IP VE in Azure:

14.1.0, 14.0.0
13.1.1, 13.1.0.2 - 13.1.0.7, 13.0.0
12.1.4, 12.1.2, 12.1.1, 12.1.0, 12.0.0

Important: Only the latest version of BIG-IP VE is available in the Azure Marketplace. For older
versions, see http://downloads.f5.com (http://downloads.f5.com).

F5 recommends at least 2 vCPU and 4 GB memory. For each additional vCPU, add at least 2 GB of
memory.

F5 recommends these instance types for BIG-IP VE. F5 also supports instance types with similar
vCPU and memory.

Azure instance LTM/DNS (Good) All (Better/Best)

Standard_D11 X  
Standard_DS2_v2 X  
Standard_DS11_v2 X  
Standard_A4 X X
Standard_A6 X X
Standard_D4 X X
Standard_DS3 X X
Standard_DS3_v2 X X
Standard_DS12_v2 X X
Standard_A7 X X*
Standard_DS4_v2 X X*
Standard_DS5_v2 X X*
Standard_DS13_v2 X X*

* Recommended if you are running ASM or APM.

Production licenses support throughput speeds of up to 3 Gbps, 1 Gbps, 200 Mbps, or 25 Mbps.
Choose an image with 2 boot locations if you expect to upgrade BIG-IP VE in the future. If you
do not need room to upgrade (if you intend to create a new instance when a new version of BIG-
IP VE is released), choose an image with 1 boot location.
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BIG-IP VE 13.1.0.2 and later with a BYOL license is supported in Azure Stack.

Google Cloud Platform¶

F5 supports BIG-IP VE version 13.1.1, 13.1.0.2, and 13.0.0 HF3 on Google Cloud Platform.

Production licenses are available for maximum throughput speeds of 10 Gbps, 5 Gbps, 1 Gbps,
200 Mbps, or 25 Mbps.
When you deploy BIG-IP VE, choose at least 2 vCPU and 4 GB memory. For each additional
vCPU, add at least 2 GB of memory.

Note: Because of this requirement, the n1-highcpu instance types are not supported.

Alibaba Cloud¶
F5 supports BIG-IP VE version 14.1.0.1 on Alibaba Cloud.

Production licenses are available for maximum throughput speeds of 10 Gbps, 5 Gbps, 1 Gbps,
200 Mbps, or 25 Mbps.
When you deploy BIG-IP VE, choose at least 2 vCPU and 4 GB memory. For each additional
vCPU, add at least 2 GB of memory.

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