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Subrun_354333
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Feb 28, 2018

How to identify a F5 is installed as part of VCMP or standalone VM

Hi All

 

I have 2 pair of F5 that is working as HA. My target is to code upgrade these F5. I wanted to identify before checking on up-gradation how the F5's are configured ?

 

Specific to my question is how or what command will allow me to verify whether F5's are configured as Standalone VM or they are part of VCMP ?

 

BR

 

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  • Joko_Yuliantor3's avatar
    Joko_Yuliantor3
    Historic F5 Account
    Feb 28, 2018

    Dear Subrun,

     

    What is the output of 'tmsh show sys hardware' on each F5? I never had the chance to work with vCMP so can't say for sure about it but vCMP hardware should see F5 hardware while F5 VE should see generic hardware.

     

    Cheers,

     

    -joko

     

  • JG's avatar
    JG
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    Mar 01, 2018

    To find if this is a VE or VCMP-hosted:

     tmsh show /sys hardware
...
Platform
  Name  BIG-IP Virtual Edition
...

 tmsh show /sys hardware
...
Platform
  Name  BIG-IP vCMP Guest
...

    To find if this is a standalone device:

     tmsh show cm failover
-------------------------------------------
CM::Failover Status
-------------------------------------------
Color    green
Status   ACTIVE
Summary  1/1 active
Details
         active for /Common/traffic-group-1

 tmsh show cm failover

--------------------
CM::Failover Status
--------------------
Color    gray
Status   STANDBY
Summary  1/1 standby
Details

    You need to run this extra command to determine if the device is part of a datasync group:

     tmsh show cm device-group

    .