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Nimbostratus

Apr 24, 2014

Config copy from physical to virtual F5

Hi DevCentral Team, We have two physical F5 load balancers in an Active, Standby setup running 10.2.3 Build 123 HF1. We also have a virtual F5 that we upgraded to the latest 10.2.3 Build 123 HF1...

nitass

Employee

Apr 24, 2014

What we want to eventually do is nightly replicate the config from the physical F5 to the virtual F5 in our Disaster Recovery center. Is there a best way to do this for our version of the F5 software?

when restoring ucs, if bigip host name is different (from the one in ucs), only share configuration will be restored. if you want to restore full configuration, you have to change host name first.

sol11318: Backing up and restoring BIG-IP configuration files (10.x)

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/11000/300/sol11318.html

also, there is rma option to not restore bigip.license.

root@ve10(Active)(tmos) load sys ucs ?
Options:
  rma  Load full configuration from a UCS file except license file. This command mostly is for RMA use.

sol12880: Configuring a replacement BIG-IP device after a Return Materials Authorization

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/12000/800/sol12880.html

if restoring fails, reload configuration (e.g. tmsh load sys config) will show what wrong is. so, you can fix it and try to reload again.