F5 Viprion Manual - Chapter
Chapter
1
The VIPRION platform
The VIPRION
®
platform provides you with the flexibility and feature-rich
capabilities of F5 products on a powerful and highly-extensible hardware
Topics:
•
About the chassis
platform. With this platform, you install and configure multiple F5 products
•
About the blades
using blades that are hot-swappable, which provides you with the ability to add,
remove, or change the platform’s configuration to best fit your network.
•
LCD panel
Everything is available for you to add, remove, or change including the blades,
power supplies, fan tray, LCD panel, and more.
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Indicator LEDs
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Platform Interfaces
The VIPRION platform includes two primary components: the chassis, which
houses the components, and blades, which reside within the chassis and provide
the hardware and software needed to manage network traffic.
Important: The chassis and blades are shipped in separate boxes. The
blades are not designed to be shipped inside a chassis. For information
on repackaging the VIPRION platform, see
Repackaging Guidelines
.
The VIPRION chassis and the PB100 and PB200 blades are available in Network
Equipment-Building System (NEBS) compliant versions. For a system to be
completely NEBS-compliant, you must use a NEBS-compliant chassis and
blades.
Although the VIPRION platform is highly extensible and designed to be easy
to implement, familiarity with the components of the VIPRION platform can
ensure that you install and integrate the platform successfully and effectively.
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