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tyates_230908
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Oct 26, 2015

Can vCMP be removed from a Viprion Chassis without having to recreate all the resources (VIPs Pools, nodes, etc)?

I inherited a Viprion chassis that was configured unnecessarily with vCMP. It is serving no value but does complicate the implementation. Can VCMP safely be removed from the chassis without having to...
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Theo_12742
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Oct 27, 2015

Yes, but remember that a vCMP guest works like a virtual machine guest--the config files are in the guest, and it won't be enough to simply de-provision the vCMP module.

 

Basic Steps: 1. Get your config files from the vCMP guest (UCS may work but also may overwrite management settings on host). 1. Go to Resource Provisioning on the VIPRION physical host and re-provision to your specs. Reload. 1. Import UCS file/config files.

 

Unless you have an HA pair, expect some downtime. With an HA pair (guest or host) you can do this without losing more than a ping's worth of traffic.

 

You can also manually export parts of your configuration and import them using the command-line, but I've done the steps above before with success.