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John_Chen_43562
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Feb 13, 2016

Configuration migration from virtual F5 to phisycal F5

I have a virtual F5 in QA environment. Due to the load and need, I want to upgrade it to big-ip LTM 2000. What is the easy way for me to migrate the configuration? We also change the external IP for ...
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IanB
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Feb 16, 2016

I would just load the UCS and ensure the new physical F5 is disconnected from the network before you press enter. Note that you'll need to load it with the 'no-license' option so as not to overwrite the physical F5's license file.

tmsh load sys ucs xxxx no-license

If it fails to load, it will have at least installed the config files, so you can carefully edit bigip_base.conf or bigip.conf as appropriate, and fix any errors until it does load (tmsh load sys config)

Once loaded, use 'config' to set a new management IP address, then plug in the management interface, and use that to make any changes that are needed, using tmsh or the GUI.