F5 VELOS BX110 Blade

Overview
Specifications
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The F5 VELOS platform is the next generation of F5’s industry-leading chassis-based systems, which deliver unprecedented performance and scalability in a single application delivery controller (ADC). As with VIPRION, F5’s existing chassis-based system that has been in the market for more than 10 years, customers can seamlessly scale capacity by adding modular blades in a chassis, without disrupting users or applications, rather than having to install and configure new appliances. Now, VELOS can also bridge traditional and modern application architectures by supporting a mix of traditional F5 BIG-IP tenants as well as next-generation BIG-IP Next tenants in the future, which will unleash the true power of running on a microservices-based architecture.

Core Capabilities

Achieve accelerated app performance and lower latency with more FPGAs and ECC ciphers.
Reduce deployment time from weeks to minutes with a fully automatable API-first architecture.
Frictionless migration and flexible licensing for the Kubernetes-based hardware of the future.
Simplify and consolidate your existing infrastructure with significantly lower operating costs.
Reduce risk with NEBS compliancy and redundant configurations and components.

F5 VELOS Chassis and Blade Catalog

The F5 VIPRION platform empowers you to dynamically scale and adapt. Add blades without disrupting your apps or users, extending superior performance without adding devices to meet your requirements.

VELOS CX410 Chassis

VELOS CX410-N Chassis

VELOS BX110 Blade

● Two (default) SX410 System Controller included

● 1x 10GBase-T

● 1x USB 3.0

● 1x serial console

● 960GB NVMe SSD

● 8-Core Intel SoC

● 32 GB DDR4 memory

● Dual AC power supplies

● Two (default) SX410 System Controller included

● 1x 10GBase-T

● 1x USB 3.0

● 1x serial console

● 960GB NVMe SSD

● 8-Core Intel SoC

● 32 GB DDR4 memory

● Dual DC power supplies

● L4/L7 throughput 95/95 Gbps

● 3.0M L7 (inf-inf) requests per second

● 1.2M L4 connections per second

● Max hardware compression 65Gbps

● SSL bulk throughput 50Gbps

● Maximum SSL TPS 100,000 (RSA 2K Keys)

● Intel 14-core Xeon processor

● 128GB DDR4 memory

The VELOS platform offers the full BIG-IP portfolio of comprehensive and industry-leading application delivery and security services. These solutions can be consolidated onto a single chassis-based VELOS platform, reducing management complexity and overhead while offering superior performance and scalability.

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM): Provides advanced traffic management, load balancing, and application delivery.
F5 BIG-IP DNS: Hyperscales and secures the DNS infrastructure during DDoS attacks and keeps global applications online.
F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM): This advanced network security solution forms the core of the F5 application protection solution. It provides full SSL visibility at scale as well as network-layer and session-layer distributed denial of service (DDoS) mitigation.
F5 BIG-IP Advanced WAF:Delivers application security, web scraping and bot prevention, and HTTP DDoS mitigation.
F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM):This secure, flexible, high-performance access management proxy solution delivers unified global access control for your users, devices, applications, and APIs.
F5 BIG-IP Intrusion Prevention System (IPS):Intrusion prevention protects infrastructure and protocols and compliance verification.
IP Intelligence and Geolocation:These additional services provide IP reputation and geolocation information for added context-aware security.
F5 BIG-IP SSL Orchestrator:Enhances SSL/TLS infrastructure, makes encrypted traffic visible to security solutions, and optimizes existing security investments.

Table 1. F5 VELOS BX110 Blade Specifications

Platform	VELOS BX110 Blade
Intelligent Traffic Processing	L4/L7 throughput 95/95 Gbps 3.0M L7 (inf-inf) requests per second 1.2M L4 connections per second Max hardware compression 65Gbps SSL bulk throughput 50Gbps Maximum SSL TPS 100,000 (RSA 2K Keys) 70,000 (ECDHE P-256-ECDSA) 55,000 (ECDHE P-256-RSA-2K)
Virtualization (vCPUs)	14-core 28 vCPU Multitenancy support: upto 22vCPU available to user. Supported Tenant Deployment options (1,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22 vCPU’s)
Processors	Single Intel 14-core Xeon processor (total 28 hyperthreaded logical processor cores)
Memory	128GB (DDR4)
Hard Drive Capacity	1x 960GB M.2 NVMe SSD (over provisioned 30%, 700 GB user capacity)
Network Interfaces	2x QSFP28 (backward compatible to QSFP+) ports supporting: 100G QSFP28 LR4, SR4, and PSM4 (Breakout cable supports 4x SFP28 25G LR or 4x SFP28 25G SR) 40G QSFP+ LR4, SR4, and PSM4 (Breakout cable supports 4x SFP+ 10G LR or 4x SFP+ 10G SR)
Power Consumption and Heat Output	Please refer to Platform Guide: VELOS CX Series for the latest specific power ratings
Weight	7.3 pounds (3.3 kg)
Width	Quarter-width
Hardware Compression and SSL	Integrated Intel Quick Assist
Front Panel and Backplane Data Path	100% FPGA
Management Interface	1x USB3.0
AOM	F5 LOP (Lights-Out Processor)
Trusted Platform Module (TPM)	TPM 2.0
NEBS	Yes (with DC NEBS chassis)
Field Serviceable Components	None