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Jason_19901
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Aug 15, 2013

Best Practice for moving from 6400 to 3900

Have two aging 6400 LTM and want to move to 3900's. What is the best way of doing this? The IP's will stay the same. If I back up the 6400 and recover on the 3900 would that work? Or will I have ...
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Cody_Green
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Aug 15, 2013

Jason,

 

Have you looked into Single Configuration Files? http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/400/sol13408.html

 

I've had several customers use this technique when moving from TMOS 10.2.x to 11.x. There are a few device specific entries that will need to be removed (hardware type, serial number, license key, etc.). http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/tmos-implementations-11-1-0/19.html

 

Hope this helps,

 

Cody