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Thomson_Thomas
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Nov 10, 2020

Migrate configuration from physical LTM to virtual

What would be the best way to migrate the config of a hardware based LTM running 11.6.1 to a new virtual pair running 13.1, appears the F5 big ip migration assistant isnt working as its trying to lic...
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Nov 10, 2020
Thanks these are helpful, my understanding was I couldn’t use the platform migrate option since I’m currently running v11 per F5 support. However after reading this my source version should be fine at v11 as long as my target system is running at least v12.1. Can I get a confirmation on this? Thanks, Thomson Thomas MBA, F5-CA Network Architect New York Power Authority
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    Lidev
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    Nov 10, 2020

    Yes, UCS archive 'platform-migrate' option is available started from version 12.1.3.

    If you want to use f5-big-ip-migration-assistant, it's not mentioned that it is not compatible with Virtual Edition in the Github project FAQ.

    in v11, Migration Assistant cannot generate UCS files on these BIG-IP versions, but you can generate a UCS file manually and import it to Migration Assistant (as long as the target version system is running at least v12.1).

     

    Regards

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    Thomson_Thomas
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    Nov 10, 2020

    yes my problem with the migration assistant is its trying to license an already licensed LTM and failing, there is an option to unselect this but its grayed out.

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    Nov 10, 2020

    Ok, dropped the idea of using the migration assistant.

    Try instead to load your UCS on the Virtual Edition with the parameter no-platform-check

    https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K14906

    tmsh load sys ucs [ucs file name] no-platform-check
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    Thomson_Thomas
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    Nov 10, 2020

    Thanks Lidev since platform-migrate is supported that might be the easiest option to migrate the config.

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    Nov 10, 2020

    You're welcome Thomas, If my answers was helpful, please don't forget to mark the answer as "Select as Best" in order to pass your post as resolved and help other people to find it