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Patrick_Brown_7
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Aug 05, 2013

9.4.8 to 10.2.4 upgrade (partitions vs volumes)

I need to upgrade a pair of 3400 boxes to 10.2.4 in the next week or two, It seems that 9.4.8 is end of life at the end of this month. I have partitions right now. Should I convert to volumes?   T...
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Aug 05, 2013
Should I convert to volumes?if i were you, i would.

 

 

Going to volumes means that I can't go back to 9.x if there is a problem. Right?yes.

 

 

by the way, i think it would be useful to also prepare bootable usb thumbdrive and/or cdrom in case you have to do clean installation.

 

 

these are some known issue i found from askf5.

 

 

sol13115: The BIG-IP 3400 platform may fail to complete the boot up process after upgrading to BIG-IP version 10.1.x or 10.2.x

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/100/sol13115

 

 

sol12873: Upgrading BIG-IP 1500 or 3400 platform with 1GB of RAM from BIG-IP version 9.4.x to BIG-IP version 10.2.0 may fail

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/12000/800/sol12873

 

 

sol4456: BIG-IP 3400 switch appliances that use the revision G BIOS may hang and reboot

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/4000/400/sol4456.html

 

 

hope this helps.