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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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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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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).

 

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