How to: vcmp - upgrade a guest hotfix?

Hi, you will upgrade the vCMP guest.

The guest needs to have the base installation image and the hotfix in /shared/images/ locally.

Installing both base and hotfix from host is available only for new vCMP guest deployment, afaik.

Btw, have a look at the following:

tmsh list vcmp guest   

Very likely you need to provide the initial hotfix as well in the vCMP host´s /shared/images/ directory to recover the system after an RMA.

Thanks, Stephan

Unless recommended practices have changed since I last used vCMP - use the host to install the base image/hotfix upon initial deployment. all other upgrades (full release or hotfix) are then handled within the guest as if the guest was a non-virtual F5.

You can delete the base and HF images once you've installed them on a guest - they don't have to continue taking up disk space. You can use SCP to move image files between host/guest instead of uploading each image/hotfix file from a remote machine. in v11.6.0, vCMP guests can install images from the vCMP host (https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/vcmp-administration-viprion-11-6-0/8.html)

Unless recommended practices have changed since I last used vCMP - use the host to install the base image/hotfix upon initial deployment. all other upgrades (full release or hotfix) are then handled within the guest as if the guest was a non-virtual F5.

You can delete the base and HF images once you've installed them on a guest - they don't have to continue taking up disk space. You can use SCP to move image files between host/guest instead of uploading each image/hotfix file from a remote machine. in v11.6.0, vCMP guests can install images from the vCMP host (https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/vcmp-administration-viprion-11-6-0/8.html)

For more information about vCMP administrative tasks, refer to K05321814: Overview of administrative tasks performed on vCMP systems.