Gemini6
Nov 21, 2020Nimbostratus
F5 Migration
Hi Dears, If I wanna migrate from two F5 devices in HA mode to a new one device, Should I extract the UCS file before splitting the HA or it is normal to generate the UCS file in HA mode?
We have received 2 i5800 boxes that will replace 5050 (HA pair).
Besides Common there are multiple partitions. We have LTM and ASM in place. New platform will have Adv WAF.
I'm thinking migrating the config offline if it loads without error then just replace the hardware in network.
What strategy should we take? Can I have some high level guideline?
High Level: Join the new hardware in the DSC group, sync config, test, remove old devices from group. :)
Here is a little more detailed procedure from how I did it, but I write this from memory, but it should be fairly accurate. Of course, there might be configuration in your current setup that makes this not perfectly suitable to your situation.
Of course it is always a good idea to have backups, preferably stored offline and also backup the master key. I always to a tmsh load sys config verify before creating UCS files, since I have seen errors in configs being written to UCS files and then when you restore them it does not work.
I think that's about it... not sure if ASM > AWAF could be an issue... Good luck!