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Vee_142890
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Feb 27, 2015

F5 3900 appliance in High Availability mode with F5 Virtual Edition - Possible ?

We purchased F5 Virtual Edition - F5-BIG-VE-BT-3G-V13 (BIG-IP Virtual Edition Best Bundle 3 Gbps (11.4.1 - 13.x)).   We also have F5 Big-IP 3900 Appliance running in Production. The appliance is ...
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JoshBecigneul
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Feb 27, 2015

Hello, Unfortunately, connecting these two units in a Device Service Cluster will likely fail to work correctly, due to the mismatch in software version. It is strongly recommended to have matching software versions between the members of a DSC group.

 

I would upgrade both to use the same base version and hotfix, and then proceed with configuring high-availability.