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JamesC1
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Feb 18, 2019

Migrate APM cluster to new datacentre

Hi - we have 2 APM's in a cluster on one ISP link, and we want to migrate to a new network on another ISP link in a new datacentre.   We wish to do this with as little downtime / outage as poss...
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RaghavendraSY_7
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Feb 18, 2019

Can you please let me know whether you are going to use seperate APM module F5 devices on new datancenter or You are going to use same F5 evices on another datancenter.

 

Steps to migrate existing APM F5 devices to different set of APM modules on another datancetner.

 

  1. Configure Management IP for new APM F5 devices
  2. Export UCS file from the existing APM F5 devices
  3. Import to new F5 APM devices
  4. Install UCS file on new F5 devices by enabling only management interfce (disable all other interfaces)
  5. Now during the maintenance window enable interfaces on new F5 APM devices and disable interfaces on old F5 devices.
  6. Once done please test your applications.

Hope this helps.

 

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JamesC1
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Feb 18, 2019

Hi - I will be migrating the existing Big-IP hardware devices to the new datacenter. The business has enough appetite for risk to be able to run on a single node for a period of time, or we may be able to get a loan device to facilitate this if it is going to be easier.