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Mike_Rausch_628
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Apr 14, 2010

BIGIP LTM 3400 and 3900

I currently have 2 BIGIP LTM 3400's and want to purchase 2 3900's to replace them. I only have funding for one right now so I was wondering if the 3400 and 3900 will work together as an HA pair as long as they are running the same version of software?
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  • hoolio's avatar
    hoolio
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    Apr 14, 2010
    Hi Mike,

     

     

    As long as the units are on the same version it should work. But F5 won't support mixed platforms and/or versions in an HA pair. I'd definitely recommend you test the configuration before trying it in a production environment.

     

     

    Aaron
  • qe_102628's avatar
    qe_102628
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    Apr 14, 2010
    To support Aaron's statement:

     

    https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/8000/600/sol8665.html

     

  • Haarith_Devaraj's avatar
    Haarith_Devaraj
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    Apr 22, 2010
    During our rollout of new hardware we did do a mixed pairing. There are certain options that you need to make sure dont exist. for eg if a b db provision.extramb variable is changed based on the 3900 ( say you allocate 2 GB to host) and sync this config, you will end up choking the 3400. 3600 vs 3400 was a stretch, but we managed to make it work for the transition (couple of months). 3900 vs 3400 might be stretching that further.

     

     

  • JRahm's avatar
    JRahm
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    May 03, 2010
    moving to the advanced design and configuration forum