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insomniak_11745
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Oct 22, 2014

BIG-IP 11.3.0 --> 11.6.0 Upgrade Failover Woes

Hello all, During an upgrade of 11.3.0 to 11.6.0 I experienced issues when failing over to the standby device to upgrade the active. The devices are in an active-standby configuration, but not con...
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Oct 22, 2014
It was all a bit chaotic, to be perfectly honest. I eventually was able to successfully fail over to the upgraded 11.6 standby unit. I then upgraded the 11.3 unit to 11.6 successfully. After which I failed back to the primary unit, and this happened again but I was unable to recover from it. I eventually booted the standby device back to 11.3 while it was in an active state and it returned to normal. I understand that my panic could very well have been some of the cause for this, but that log snippet is from immediately after I forced a failover. I did not have mac masquerade configured.