How to fly BIG-IP LTM VE in VMware player

Host OS : Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit  (Build 7600) 6.1.7600
VMware Plyaer : 3.1.4 build-385536
BIT-IP LTM VE : BIGIP-10.1.0.3341.1084

1.

Download LTM VE from https://login.f5.com/resource/login.jsp?ctx=719748.
You can use LTM VE for 90 days evaluation.

2.

Install VMware player.

3.

Launch VMware player n’ choose vmx file of LTM VE.


There’s no need to modify LTM VE settings.




4.

start VM.

LTM VE is running in VMware Player.

CLI’s login account is:

user : root
credential : default

By default LTM VE IP address (interface name is eth0:mgmt ) for management will be obtained via DHCP.
You can check management IP by typing ifconfig eth0:mgmt.

access to LTM VE w/ Web Browser ( https://LTM VE’s IP )

GUI login account is :

user : admin
credential : admin


activate an evaluation license. ( Main -> License )



When activating , LTM VE will access to F5’s license activation site.

# dig @127.1 -x 65.61.115.202 ; <<>> DiG 9.7.1-P2 <<>> @127.1 -x 65.61.115.202 ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 59315 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;202.115.61.65.in-addr.arpa.    IN      PTR ;; ANSWER SECTION: 202.115.61.65.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN    CNAME   202.128/25.115.61.65.in-addr.arpa. 202.128/25.115.61.65.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN PTR activate-llix.f5.com.

LTM is based on CnetOS ( Seen from kernel version , I think LTM is based on CentOS 5.4 )

# uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.1.0.f5app #1 SMP Sat Feb 6 00:16:40 PST 2010 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux # dmesg | egrep eth0 eth0: registered as PCnet/PCI II 79C970A eth0: link up eth0: no IPv6 routers present # lsmod | egrep -i pcnet pcnet32                35716  0 mii                     9216  1 pcnet32 # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 01) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 01) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 08) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 08) 00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware SVGA II Adapter 00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] (rev 10) 00:11.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82545EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 01) 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82545EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 01) # dmesg Linux version 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.1.0.f5app (f5cm@build09) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-46)) #1 SMP Sat Feb 6 00:16:40 PST 2010 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000010000 - 000000000009f800 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000dc000 - 00000000000e4000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000e8000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fef0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000003fef0000 - 000000003feff000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 000000003feff000 - 000000003ff00000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 000000003ff00000 - 0000000040000000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fffe0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) get_memcfg_from_srat: assigning address to rsdp RSD PTR  v2 [PTLTD ] Begin SRAT table scan.... Memory range 0x0 to 0xA0 (type 0x0) in proximity domain 0x00 enabled Memory range 0x100 to 0x40000 (type 0x0) in proximity domain 0x00 enabled pxm bitmap: 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Number of logical nodes in system = 1 Number of memory chunks in system = 2 chunk 0 nid 0 start_pfn 00000000 end_pfn 000000a0 chunk 1 nid 0 start_pfn 00000100 end_pfn 00040000 Node: 0, start_pfn: 0, end_pfn: 262144  Setting physnode_map array to node 0 for pfns:  0 16384 32768 49152 65536 81920 98304 114688 131072 147456 163840 180224 196608 212992 229376 245760 calculate_numa_remap_pages: node: 0 pfn: 0x3fef0 is not RAM calculate_numa_remap_pages: 272 pages removed from node 0 Reserving 2560 pages of KVA for lmem_map of node 0 Shrinking node 0 from 261872 pages to 259312 pages Shrinking node 0 further by 240 pages for proper alignment Adjusting max_pfn from 262144 to 259072 Reserving total of 2560 pages for numa KVA remap reserve_pages = 2560 find_max_low_pfn() ~ 229376 max_pfn = 259072 126MB HIGHMEM available. 886MB LOWMEM available. min_low_pfn = 1908, max_low_pfn = 226816, highstart_pfn = 226816 Low memory ends at vaddr f7600000 node 0 will remap to vaddr f7600000 - f8000000 High memory starts at vaddr f7600000 found SMP MP-table at 000f69b0 Memory for crash kernel (0x0 to 0x0) notwithin permissible range disabling kdump NX (Execute Disable) protection: active get_zholes_init: node: 0 hole: 0xa0 - 0x100 On node 0 totalpages: 258976  DMA zone: 4000 pages, LIFO batch:0  Normal zone: 222720 pages, LIFO batch:31  HighMem zone: 32256 pages, LIFO batch:7 DMI present. Using APIC driver default ACPI: RSDP (v002 PTLTD                                 ) @ 0x000f6940 ACPI: XSDT (v001 INTEL  440BX    0x06040000 VMW  0x01324272) @ 0x3fef0804 ACPI: FADT (v004 INTEL  440BX    0x06040000 PTL  0x000f4240) @ 0x3fefee98 ACPI: BOOT (v001 PTLTD  $SBFTBL$ 0x06040000  LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x3fef0994 ACPI: MADT (v001 PTLTD           APIC   0x06040000  LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x3fef0944 ACPI: MCFG (v001 PTLTD  $PCITBL$ 0x06040000  LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x3fef0908 ACPI: SRAT (v002 VMWARE MEMPLUG  0x06040000 VMW  0x00000001) @ 0x3fef0888 ACPI: DSDT (v001 PTLTD  Custom   0x06040000 MSFT 0x03000001) @ 0x00000000 ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008 ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) Processor #0 0:4 APIC version 17 ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x01] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0]) IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 1, version 17, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23 ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 high edge) ACPI: IRQ0 used by override. ACPI: IRQ2 used by override. ACPI: IRQ9 used by override. Enabling APIC mode:  Flat.  Using 1 I/O APICs Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information Allocating PCI resources starting at 50000000 (gap: 40000000:a0000000) TSC: Frequency read from the hypervisor Detected 2800.040 MHz processor. Built 1 zonelists.  Total pages: 258976 Kernel command line: ro root=UUID=159073f5-9c97-46c4-a5e3-2a1a375083ac console=tty0 panic=1  platform=Z99 quiet Platform name Z99 mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000) mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000) Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Initializing CPU#0 CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c06eb000 soft=c06cb000 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes) Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Initializing HighMem for node 0 (00037600:0003f400) Memory: 1027816k/1036288k available (1835k kernel code, 8020k reserved, 764k data, 216k init, 129024k highmem) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 5600.08 BogoMIPS (lpj=28000400) Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized SELinux:  Initializing. SELinux:  Starting in permissive mode selinux_register_security:  Registering secondary module capability Capability LSM initialized as secondary Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 CPU: After generic identify, caps: 078bfbff ebd3fbff 00000000 00000000 80802001 00000000 000001e9 CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 078bfbff ebd3fbff 00000000 00000000 80802001 00000000 000001e9 CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line) CPU: After all inits, caps: 078bfbff ebd3fbff 00000000 01000500 80802001 00000000 000001e9 Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. SMP alternatives: switching to UP code Freeing SMP alternatives: 13k freed ACPI: Core revision 20060707 CPU0: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 925 Processor stepping 02 Mapping cpu 0 to node 0 Total of 1 processors activated (5600.08 BogoMIPS). ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1 Using local APIC timer interrupts. WARNING calibrate_APIC_clock: the APIC timer calibration may be wrong. Brought up 1 CPUs sizeof(vma)=92 bytes sizeof(page)=32 bytes sizeof(inode)=340 bytes sizeof(dentry)=136 bytes sizeof(ext3inode)=492 bytes sizeof(buffer_head)=52 bytes sizeof(skbuff)=168 bytes checking if image is initramfs... it is Freeing initrd memory: 3547k freed NET: Registered protocol family 16 ACPI: bus type pci registered PCI: Using MMCONFIG Setting up standard PCI resources ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00) PCI quirk: region 1000-103f claimed by PIIX4 ACPI PCI quirk: region 1040-104f claimed by PIIX4 SMB ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 9 10 11 14 15) SCSI subsystem initialized usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq".  If it helps, post a report PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0  IO window: disabled.  MEM window: disabled.  PREFETCH window: disabled. PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64 NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536) TCP reno registered Simple Boot Flag at 0x36 set to 0x80 apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac) apm: overridden by ACPI. audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) type=2000 audit(1303776870.570:1): initialized highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0 VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) SELinux:  Registering netfilter hooks Initializing Cryptographic API alg: No test for crc32c (crc32c-generic) ksign: Installing public key data Loading keyring io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered (default) Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers. Boot video device is 0000:00:0f.0 ACPI: Processor [CP00] (supports 8 throttling states) Real Time Clock Driver v2.0 Non-volatile memory driver v1.2 Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A brd: module loaded usbcore: registered new driver hiddev usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: bitmap version 4.39 TCP bic registered Initializing IPsec netlink socket NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 Using IPI No-Shortcut mode ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5) Freeing unused kernel memory: 216k freed Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 364k input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0 Time: tsc clocksource has been installed. input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input1 input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input2 device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.5-ioctl (2007-12-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1 PIIX4: chipset revision 1 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1480-0x1487, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio    ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1488-0x148f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio Probing IDE interface ide0... hda: VMware Virtual IDE Hard Drive, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hda: max request size: 128KiB hda: 20971520 sectors (10737 MB) w/32KiB Cache, CHS=22192/15/63, UDMA(33) hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 Probing IDE interface ide1... libata version 3.00 loaded. 3ware 9000 Storage Controller device driver for Linux v2.26.08.003-2.6.18RH. Fusion MPT base driver 3.04.07rh Copyright (c) 1999-2008 LSI Corporation Fusion MPT SPI Host driver 3.04.07rh md: raid0 personality registered for level 0 md: raid1 personality registered for level 1 kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended EXT3 FS on dm-2, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. type=1404 audit(1303776876.820:2): enforcing=1 old_enforcing=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 security:  3 users, 6 roles, 1769 types, 232 bools, 1 sens, 1024 cats security:  61 classes, 88780 rules SELinux:  Completing initialization. SELinux:  Setting up existing superblocks. SELinux: initialized (dev dm-2, type ext3), uses xattr SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs SELinux: initialized (dev debugfs, type debugfs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev selinuxfs, type selinuxfs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev mqueue, type mqueue), uses transition SIDs SELinux: initialized (dev hugetlbfs, type hugetlbfs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev devpts, type devpts), uses transition SIDs SELinux: initialized (dev eventpollfs, type eventpollfs), uses task SIDs SELinux: initialized (dev inotifyfs, type inotifyfs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs SELinux: initialized (dev futexfs, type futexfs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev anon_inodefs, type anon_inodefs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev pipefs, type pipefs), uses task SIDs SELinux: initialized (dev sockfs, type sockfs), uses task SIDs SELinux: initialized (dev cpuset, type cpuset), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev proc, type proc), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev bdev, type bdev), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev rootfs, type rootfs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev sysfs, type sysfs), uses genfs_contexts type=1403 audit(1303776877.090:3): policy loaded auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 SELinux: initialized (dev usbfs, type usbfs), uses genfs_contexts input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input3 pcnet32.c:v1.32 18.Mar.2006 tsbogend@alpha.franken.de ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:10.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 169 pcnet32: PCnet/PCI II 79C970A at 0x1080, 00 0c 29 59 39 31 assigned IRQ 169. eth0: registered as PCnet/PCI II 79C970A pcnet32: 1 cards_found. piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.3: Found 0000:00:07.3 device piix4_smbus 0000:00:07.3: Host SMBus controller not enabled! i2c /dev entries driver Jiffies kernel module NET: Registered protocol family 10 lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver Auto Last Hop kernel module Universal VNIC device driver v1.0.  Max packets per poll: 4096. md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. EXT3 FS on dm-2, internal journal kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on dm-3, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. SELinux: initialized (dev dm-3, type ext3), uses xattr kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. SELinux: initialized (dev dm-5, type ext3), uses xattr kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on dm-4, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. SELinux: initialized (dev dm-4, type ext3), uses xattr kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on dm-0, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. SELinux: initialized (dev dm-0, type ext3), uses xattr kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on dm-1, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. SELinux: initialized (dev dm-1, type ext3), uses xattr SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs type=1404 audit(1303776909.022:4): enforcing=0 old_enforcing=1 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 EXT3 FS on dm-5, internal journal inode_doinit_with_dentry:  context_to_sid(unlabeled) returned 22 for dev=dm-2 ino=8194 inode_doinit_with_dentry:  context_to_sid(unlabeled) returned 22 for dev=dm-3 ino=6102 inode_doinit_with_dentry:  context_to_sid(unlabeled) returned 22 for dev=dm-5 ino=50587 inode_doinit_with_dentry:  context_to_sid(unlabeled) returned 22 for dev=dm-5 ino=50586 type=1404 audit(1303776923.362:5): enforcing=1 old_enforcing=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 SELinux: initialized (dev binfmt_misc, type binfmt_misc), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev hda1, type vfat), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev hda1, type vfat), uses genfs_contexts Adding 1044216k swap on /dev/hda2.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1044216k SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs SELinux: initialized (dev hda1, type vfat), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev hda1, type vfat), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev hugetlbfs, type hugetlbfs), uses genfs_contexts process `sysctl' is using deprecated sysctl (syscall) net.ipv6.neigh.lo.base_reachable_time; Use net.ipv6.neigh.lo.base_reachable_time_ms instead. eth0: link up eth0: no IPv6 routers present SELinux: initialized (dev hda1, type vfat), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev hda1, type vfat), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev hda1, type vfat), uses genfs_contexts tmm0: no IPv6 routers present SELinux: initialized (dev hda1, type vfat), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev hda1, type vfat), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev hugetlbfs, type hugetlbfs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev hda1, type vfat), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev hda1, type vfat), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev hda1, type vfat), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev hda1, type vfat), uses genfs_contexts