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Best Practice - Apply f5 updates and hotfixes
I figured this is as good a place to find out how the BIG-IP's are handled then any.
Please, if you dont mind, could you share your insight and experiences with the f5 LTM updates and hotfixes and how your company (no need to mention the company name) handles both?
What, if any, policy do you have regarding these?
Thank you very much,
Brett
- hooleylistCirrostratusHi Brett,
- Ed_Hammond_2611NimbostratusIt depends on the number of environments and LTMs you are supporting. With under 10, it is a lot easier to stay current. When you go past 50 or 75 scattered all over on varying hardware it gets harder to be consistent. It also depends a lot on how F5 gives you an upgrade path. The jump from v9 to v10 basically took a hardware swap to execute anywhere except a lab environment (because they changed the way disk partitioning was handled, there was no fallback option once you applied v10).
- epaalxCirrusHi Ed, Posted By Ed Hammond on 08/13/2011 06:26 AM
- JustCooLpOOLeCirrocumulus
I would like to add a question to this as well when dealing with Best Practices. I have two LTMs in an Active-Standby pair running 11.2. When I run iHealth on my QKview files, there are fixes that would be implemented with 11.4 and some with 11.5.1. Are there any differences when upgrading minor versions as opposed to doing major versions (i.e. 10.x to 11.x)? Is the preparation any different? Thanks in advance!
- nitassEmployee
Are there any differences when upgrading minor versions as opposed to doing major versions (i.e. 10.x to 11.x)? Is the preparation any different?
procedure should be same (i.e. re-activate license, upgrade standby, failover, test test and test, upgrade active, failover back, test test and test).
minor version upgrade should have less issue. :-)
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