New VM F5 Networks BigIP qcow2 or ISO

[donmunyak]

Hello,
I am preparing to deploy and F5 Networks BigIP onto Proxmox v8.1.4
In my preparation I have been scowring the internet for what looks to be pieces and parts, which is OK... I'm documenting every step.
I have seen several posts about downloading the qcow2 image... check
As I started building the VM, I noticed the disk format = raw, and was greyed out.
My storage for local-lvm = LVM-thin
As well as, don't worry about the disk.. they are gonna be deleted anyway.
my lab is minimalist currently
- 500GB SSD LVM-Thin
- 250GB SSD M2 LVM
Question:

1. Is there any benefit to trying to make qcow2 work?
2. Or would it be simpler just to download an ISO and call it a day?

 

[Dunuin]

If you want to store images as qcow2 format you need a filesystem. LVM-Thin/LVM/ZFS got no filesystem so its only possible to storage LVs/Zvols as "raw" format.
Search for the "qm importdisk" command if you want to import and convert a qcow2 formated virtual disks to raw to store it on a LVM-Thin pool. Or "qemu-img" if you just want to convert between formats.

 

[donmunyak]

I guess I got lucky, beacuse the install worked. ( I got a little impatient - "its a VM environment")
After downloading the qcow2 image from F5.com
uploaded to proxmox /root
unzip BIGIP-16.1.4.2-0.0.3.ALL.qcow2.zip
qm disk import 106 BIGIP-16.1.4.2-0.0.3.qcow2 local-lvm
Then attached to the VM, and the installed worked.

Thanks

 

[branto]

You will need to set your hardware version to 7.2 in order for the eval licensing to work, as of 2024-04-10.

 

[CuriousMe]

I guess I got lucky, beacuse the install worked. ( I got a little impatient - "its a VM environment")
After downloading the qcow2 image from F5.com
uploaded to proxmox /root
unzip BIGIP-16.1.4.2-0.0.3.ALL.qcow2.zip
qm disk import 106 BIGIP-16.1.4.2-0.0.3.qcow2 local-lvm
Then attached to the VM, and the installed worked.

Thanks

Hi, any chance you documented the steps and can share? I'm having all kinds of issues. The BigIP is not in a good state after its built, its very unstable after the root pwd is changed and the mgtIP set.

 

[donmunyak]

Hi, any chance you documented the steps and can share? I'm having all kinds of issues. The BigIP is not in a good state after its built, its very unstable after the root pwd is changed and the mgtIP set.

Yes, I will try to update later.