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baileyt_229731
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Oct 19, 2015

disconnection from the network to F5 after ESXi patching

This morning we patched a few of our 5.5 hosts from build 2718055 to 3116895 and we were unable to ping the two F5's (big-ip load balancers) in the environment after the upgrade. I'm the VMware admi...
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Andy_McGrath
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Oct 19, 2015

Could be the upgrade to ESXi change the eth0 MAC address in the VM, the F5 VE license is linked to the eth0 MAC so if it changes the license will become invalid so will not load or run the F5's config.

 

Take a copy of the F5 VM's .vmx files before upgrading and check the settings, after upgrade compare the backup with new vmx and see if anything on eth0 has changed.