LTM VE on Fusion 4

It's likely that Fusion 4 doesn't work with versions earlier than 10.2.3 of BIG-IP VE for new deployments.

 

 

The earliest version that will work is likely to be 10.2.2-hf2 if you deployed your 10.2.x on Fusion 3 or very later revisions of Fusion 2.

 

 

 

Note: A 10.2.x -> 11 upgrade guide is in the BIG-IP VE manuals that detail the supported steps for upgrading on vSphere. It sounds like the upgrade guide's steps could be applied to Fusion as well.

 

 

 

 

There are three basic indicators I use to tell me that a machine has a good chance of functioning after upgrade:

 

1) chmand and tmm doesn't restart. This is the big indicator that something is amiss with the Hypervisor's virtual hardware presentation to the BIG-IP VE boot.

 

 

2) It goes active after UCS restore (and some time for everything to firm up)

 

- a UCS will attempt to restore a license if the restoration system's hostname matches the UCS archived hostname. This is quite a time saver.

 

 

3) I can see my pool members go green (or, I can ping something on a VLAN where I've attached a BIG-IP interface and self-IP) - basically, are the NICs functioning? I also verify that my BIG-IP Interface to Hypervisor VLAN mapping is correct - sometimes things get jumbled with PCI presentation of the NICs from the Hypervisor as the Hypervisor will present NICs differently between versions or when adding/removing NICs. tcpdump is great for figuring out when this happens.