F5 BigIP Virtual Edition

F5 released a trial version of their famous LTM (Local Traffic Manager) product. The product is valid for 90 days trial use. It can be a great candidate for testing the product for your virtual environment or building a home lab for your F5 Certification studies.(F50-521 and F50-522 exams)

First download the file for your VMware virtual platform (ESX(i) vSphere or Workstation 7)

https://downloads.f5.com/esd/product.jsp?sw=BIG-IP&pro=big-ip_ve&prodesc=BIG-IP+Virtual+Edition

Then generate a registration key for your product that will be used to create the dossier file for activation during initial setup. You can have up to 4 registration keys e-mailed to you :

https://www.f5.com/trial/secure/generate-eval-key.php

The virtual machine has :

1 GB RAM
3 NIC (should be possible to additional NIC for redundant pair heartbeat traffic)
10 GB vdisk

NOTE : Don't try to decrease memory, otherwise you will have problems allocating additional modules to LTM.

You can find the detailed installation document on :
https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ve/releasenotes/product/relnotes_ve_10_1_0.html