F5 Viprion - Peripheral Hardware that You Provide

The VIPRION Platform
Platform Guide: VIPRION
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Peripheral hardware that you provide
For each VIPRION blade in the system, you may need to provide additional
peripheral hardware.
◆ You need standard input/output hardware if you plan to use direct
administrative access to the VIPRION platform. This requires a serial
terminal and a null modem cable.
◆ You must have an administrative workstation on the same IP network as
the platform if you want to use the default VIPRION platform
configuration.
◆ You need network hubs, switches, or concentrators to connect to the
VIPRION platform network interfaces. The devices you select must be
compatible with the network interface cards installed in the VIPRION
platform.
• Ethernet requires either a 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps hub or switch.
• Gigabit Ethernet requires a compatible Gigabit Ethernet switch.
• 10 Gigabit Ethernet requires a compatible 10 Gigabit Ethernet switch.
◆ You can use an external USB CD/DVD-ROM drive or a USB compact
flash drive that is compatible with the system for installing upgrades and
for system recovery. Even though most USB CD/DVD-ROM and USB
compact flash drives should work, we cannot guarantee compatibility
with all makes and models.
If you plan on doing remote administration from your own PC workstation
as most users do, we recommend that you have your workstation already in
place on the same subnet to which the management interface is connected.