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Brad_146558
Nimbostratus
May 02, 2014Adding a NIC to BIG-IP
I had a best practices question about adding NICs to a virtual BIG-IP. We are in a vCloud environment and we needed to take a short maintenance window at night to power off our BIG-IP and add a NIC. ...
What_Lies_Bene1
Cirrostratus
May 03, 2014Shouldn't be an issue configuring it later. I'd suggest however you at least check the new NIC hasn't caused any issues.
I've had issues a few times with vCloud where the MACs assigned to each NIC get messed up when you add or delete one. If this does happen you may need to do one of these (sometimes both) once you're sure things are setup right in vCloud;
[tmsh] stop sys services all
rm /var/db/mcpd*
reboot
If that doesn't work, this might;
touch /service/mcpd/forceload
shutdown –h now
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