Detailed Course Outline
Chapter 1: Introducing the VIPRION System Architecture
- Introducing the VIPRION System
- VIPRION 2000 Series Chassis
- VIPRION 4000 Series Chassis
- Primary and Secondary Blades
- VIPRION Cables and Transceivers
- Other Components
Chapter 2: Setting Up a BIG-IP VIPRION System
- Initial BIG-IP Setup Utility Steps
- Creating an Archive of the BIG-IP System
- BIG-IP 5200V System Setup Labs
Chapter 3: Load Balancing Traffic with CMP
- What is CMP?
- Understanding the Disaggregator (DAG)
- Differentiating between CMP-enabled and CMP-disabled
- Understanding the Relationship Between CMP and Persistence Records and iRules Variables
- VIPRION Features and Technologies
Chapter 4: Running VIPRION with vCMP
- What is vCMP?
- vCMP Licensing and Provisioning
- F5 Virtualization
- vCMP Host and vCMP Guests
- Physical and Logical Cores
- Virtual Disks
- Flexible Resource Allocation
Chapter 5: Configuring a High Availability Deployment in a VIPRION System
- Introducing Device Service Clustering (DSC)
- Introducing Network Failover Communication
- Preparing to Deploy a DSC Configuration
- Configuring DSC Communication
- Establishing Device Trust
- Establishing a Sync-Failover Device Group
- Synchronizing Configuration Data
- Exploring Traffic Groups
- Understanding Failover Managers and Triggers
- Understanding HA Group Monitors
- Cluster High Availability without vCMP
- Mirroring for VIPRION Systems
Chapter 6: Managing Blades and Performing Hardware Maintenance
- Recommended VIPRION Practices
- Full Cluster Start-Up
- Adding a New Blade
- VIPRION Troubleshooting Commands
- Troubleshooting Tools
- Contact F5 Technical Support
- End User Diagnostics (EUD)