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Antony2015
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Dec 11, 2014

Cicso ACE to F5 LTM

Hi All,

 

Can you please let me know which option are converted(rserver,probe,serverfarm,sticky,policy-map&class-map) by using conversion tool for ACE to F5 migration, and also let me know which options are not converted using conversion tool.

 

Version : Cicso’s ACE 4700 (5.3) to F5 LTM 11.4.1

 

I have used ace2f5-tmsh.zip file for conversion and its throwing error.

 

I would like you guys to provide me with any kind of valuable information/considerations in ACE as well as F5 that would take me to the next step of migration.

 

5 Replies

  • The scripts are quite old, the configuration they provide is not 100%. I've tried several configurations with them and ended up just rebuilding the config by myself. It converts rservers, probes and server farms. The converted config however needs to be changed in order to be used on 11.4. If you have the ip addresses you can build a basic configuration using scripts and just do the tricky things from GUI.
  • Thanks Cristian for your quick response on this. Please find the features and configuration type included in the current ACE configuration. (logging,crypto chaingroup,crypto csr-params,object-group,access-list,parameter-map,sticky,action-list,ssl-proxy,snmp-server,sticky,policy-map&class-map) You mean to say that clean up the above configuration objects before using the conversion script and only use the (server,probe,serverfarm) in the ace-config.txt for conversion. Does the scripts converts sticky,policy-map&class-map too ? server,probe,serverfarm - configuration example ================================================ serverfarm host description predictor leastconns probe rserver conn-limit max 10000 min 5000 inservice rserver conn-limit max 10000 min 5000 inservice probe http description port 40099 interval 30 passdetect count 1 request method head expect status 0 404 header Accept header-value "any" rserver host description ip address X.X.X.X conn-limit max 15000 min 5000 inservice rserver host description ip address X.X.X.X conn-limit max 15000 min 5000 inservice
  • Hi All, I would appreciate your help if any one can give more suggestions on my queries above...
  • Hello, F5 LTM is much easier than ACE, if you had basically configured your ltm box, so it is easily to configure you scenario. if your target to have a working vs so i prefer to do the below 1-create node(actual server) 2-create pool to collect all nodes against ports within, and to choose the lb method 3-create virtual server that contains a pool members. vs has alot of feature to be deployed