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High availability rSeries/iSeries
The rSeries platform uses F5OS, which in practice is a Kubernetes-based virtualization, allowing the creation and hosting of tenants in the same way we used to with vCMP guests. The BIG-IP tenant is managed in the same way a vCMP guest is managed today on VIPRION or iSeries.
In the rSeries platform, there is no appliance redundancy; instead, redundancy is based on tenancy (similar to HA of a vCMP guest) - High Availability in rSeries
You can find more details about the rSeries appliance platform F5OS-A - rSeries Platform Introduction
You can find more details about the VELOS chassis platform F5OS-C - VELOS Platform Introduction
That said, when considering an HA cluster between an iSeries and a tenant hosted within the rSeries, it is possible but not recommended, as there are some limitations to this configuration when features depend on similar platform resources (HW or Virtual Edition). Connection mirroring and persistence may not be supported for device groups consisting of heterogeneous hardware, virtual platforms, or BIG-IP software versions, as described in the article mentioned by Aswin_mk
In the compatibility matrix for creating/hosting BIG-IP tenants on F5OS, version 16.x is not supported - Compatibility Matrix
For platform migration, I recommend using f5-journeys, which will help with UCS adjustments - f5-journeys GitHub
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