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smp_86112
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May 16, 2011

Maintaining OS Customizations After Software Upgrade

My LTM/GTM systems are running 10.2.0 on volume partitions, and there are a number of standard customizations we make to our F5 units during our build process. One simple example is that we create a d...
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smp_86112
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May 17, 2011
Hi hoolio, let me lay out a bit more of a concrete example. My question is sort of a combination of what happens to customizations I've made, but also what happens to the active configuration. Let's say I have this configuration:

 

 

MD1.1 (10.1.0) (customized)

 

MD1.2 (10.2.0) Active (customized)

 

MD1.3 -

 

 

Now let's say I need to run 10.2.0-HF2. I have a choice, don't I, of either installing 10.2.0 on MD1.3, or upgrading MD1.1 from 10.1.0 to 10.2.0? Obviously MD1.3 will need the customizations, but would MD1.1 after I upgraded it to 10.2.0?

 

 

Beyond that, based on what you said, if I upgraded MD1.1 from 10.1.0 to 10.2.0, I would also need to install HF2 on MD1.1 before I actually booted into it?

 

 

Finally, would the upgrade process of MD1.1 from 10.1.0 to 10.2.0 install the configuration from MD1.1, or from the Active volume?