***** 𝐅𝟓 "𝐕𝐋𝐀𝐍 𝐆𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐏" 𝐯𝐬. "𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐖𝐢𝐫𝐞" *****

 Below is a brief overview of key notes about two of the most important F5 objects including 𝐕𝐋𝐀𝐍 𝐆𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐏 and 𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐖𝐢𝐫𝐞:

⊛ 𝐕𝐋𝐀𝐍 𝐆𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐏:
- It's used to Mirroring traffic between two 𝐃𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐕𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐬, like VLAN "A" and VLAN "B"
- It provides three special settings including "𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭" (Pure-L2 Deployment), "𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭" (Universal-Bit Handling), and "𝐎𝐩𝐚𝐪𝐮𝐞" (Proxy-ARP)
- It could work as either 𝐋𝟐 / 𝐋𝟑 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐫
- It's Supported on “𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 (𝐯𝐂𝐌𝐏)”
- It's used for “𝐈𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭” as an 𝐋𝟐 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞 between “Two L2 Network Segments”; Preferably 1:1 VLAN Mapping

⊛ 𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐖𝐢𝐫𝐞 (𝐯𝐖𝐢𝐫𝐞):
- It's used to Mirroring traffic between two 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐕𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐬
- The system Bridges both “𝐓𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐝” and “𝐔𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐝” Packets
- Allow Traffic through the BIG-IP behaving like a "𝐖𝐢𝐫𝐞"
- It's 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝 on “Virtual Clustered Multiprocessing (vCMP)”
- The “Q-in-Q” feature is 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝 in a vWire Configuration
- The “Active/Active” Deployment is 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝
- It's 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝 on “Virtual Edition (VE)”