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EuropeanITCrow1
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Apr 08, 2014

Having to upgrade from v10 to v11 manually?

Hello everybody,

 

I need to replace an old BIG-IP 1500 platform with a stronger and newer one, and now I’m facing a weird situation: The old one cannot be run with v11, the new one not with v10.

 

Sticking to the askf5 best practice articles, I couldn’t find anything for such a situation. In DevCentral I found the /usr/libexec/bigpipe daol command and gave it a try: Well, I had to delete nearly all of the HA-configuration and a lot of other stuff because of error messages. After that, it proceeded some steps further but then ran into a segmentation fault. :-(

 

So, is there any other way I could do a migration automatically? Converting it manually would be a life’s work…

 

Thank you very much for your contributions!

 

application delivery
deployment
LTM
migration
v10
v11
  • nathe's avatar
    nathe
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    Apr 08, 2014

    You can restore a v10 UCS file on v11. So, build your new bigip, base config, license and provision your modules. Then restore the ucs on the new one in tmsh using the no-license and no-platform-check switches.

     

    See if that helps.