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Reginald_Sible1's avatar
Reginald_Sible1
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Oct 09, 2013

Migrate 70 Virtual Servers from legacy LTM 1600 to new LTM 2000

Anyone have any ideas on a quick way to migrate 70 Virtual Servers, their associated Pools and the associated nodes from one LTM to another LTM already running Virtual server services? I assuming I cant import the UCS file because the devices is running services..

 

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  • jgranieri's avatar
    jgranieri
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    Oct 09, 2013

    keep in mind the LTM 2000 only runs on 11.x code so the configuration will be slightly different... For the most part the Virtual server configuration should be too different. I would suggest you copy one VS config and add via cli to see how the configuration is deployed on the LTM 2000

     

  • bboyjnr_8532's avatar
    bboyjnr_8532
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    Oct 09, 2013

    i have not tested installing an archive from a 1600 to a 2000 series appliance but from tmsh you can import the UCS using the no-platform-check and also no licence...

     

    you can upload the UCS via the gui or winscp to /var/local/ucs

     

    root@(bigip)(cfg-sync Standalone)(Active)(/Common)(tmos) load /sys ucs working.ucs no-platform-check no-license

     

    make sure your target system in running the same version of code, have seen this fail between minor versions.

     

    • boneyard's avatar
      boneyard
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      Oct 09, 2013
      like Reggie already mentions archive restore isnt a good idea because the 2200 already has active config which an archive restore will overwrite.
  • boneyard's avatar
    boneyard
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    Oct 09, 2013

    some good questions already asked, are both big-ips on the same TMOS version?

     

    if there isn't much more required then virtual servers, pools and nodes i would take a SCP, strip out what you don't need and merge it in the config.

     

    SCP: http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/tmos-concepts-11-1-0/tmos_single_config_file.html

     

    merge: https://devcentral.f5.com/questions?pid=4892