F5 VIPRION 2400, Manual

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The VIPRION
®
2400 Platform
About the platform
The VIPRION
®
2400 system provides you with the flexibility and feature-rich capabilities of F5
®
products
on a powerful and highly-extensible hardware platform. With this platform, you install and configure multiple
F5 products using hot-swappable blades. This provides you with the ability to add, remove, or change the
platform's configuration to best fit your network. Many components are available for you to add, remove,
or change including the blades, power supplies, fan tray, and more. This configuration allows for an extremely
robust and flexible system that can manage large amounts of application traffic, and remain operational
even if one of its components goes offline.
VIPRION platforms include two types of components: blades, which provide the hardware and software
needed to manage network traffic, and a chassis, which houses the blades.
The VIPRION 2400 platform supports either AC or DC power. If you ordered DC power as a factory option,
the platform comes pre-installed with DC power supplies. If you ordered DC power supplies from F5
Networks as an upgrade to an AC-powered platform, you have to switch out the AC power supplies for DC
power supplies.
Important: The chassis and blades are shipped in separate boxes. The blades are not designed to be shipped
inside a chassis.
Although the VIPRION 2400 platform is highly extensible and designed to be easy to implement, familiarity
with the platform components can help ensure that you install and integrate the platform successfully and
effectively.
About the chassis
The chassis is the housing unit that contains all of the components necessary for the VIPRION
®
2400
platform to operate effectively.
Figure 1: Front view of a VIPRION C2400 chassis with four blades installed and pre-installed two-point
rack mounting brackets