Users Guide

Setting Up F5 BIGIP VNF Package | Configuring Virtualization
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Next you need to create a VM snapshot.
Creating a VM Snapshot
The VM snapshot is used to create and export a Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM) software
image descriptor from the OpenManage Network Manager application and then the VIM software
image descriptor is used to manage, deploy, or migrate images.
This section uses the F5 BIGIP VE LTM image as an example. The same process applies for
creating a snapshot for the F5 BIGIP VE ALL image (for the AFM model).
Gracefully shutdown the VM manually in the OpenStack environment and then take a snapshot
produced as a qcow2 image file.
Create a VM snapshot from the OpenStack dashboard as follows.
1 Shut off the instance.
a. Select Project > Compute > Instances.
A list of instances is displayed.
b. Select the Shut Off Instance action for the appropriate instance.
A confirmation message is displayed.
c. Click shut Off Instance.
If you prefer to shutdown F5 BIGIP VM processes from the Linux shell, log in as root and
enter
shutdown now . Refer to your F5 BIG-IP documentation for more details.
2 Create a snapshot image.
a. Select Admin > System > Instances.
A list of instances is displayed.
b. Select the Create Snapshot action for the instance.
The Create a Snapshot window is displayed.