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HarishSolanki
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Dec 06, 2019

Migration from F5-VE to F5 Hardware i2000 series

I am a novice with F5 BigIP. I am looking for a procedure as to how I can migrate my config from my existing configuration to the hardware appliance. F5-VE has interface names as 1.1,1.2,1.3... and...
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Enes_Afsin_Al
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Dec 07, 2019

Hi HarishSolanki,

For VM:

1. Backup UCS

save /sys ucs /var/local/UCS/MyUCS.ucs no-private-key

2. Download UCS

3. Look f5mku

f5mku -K

For i2000:

1. Upload UCS to /var/local/ucs folder

2. Create temp folder in /var/local/ucs

cd /var/local/ucs
mkdir abc
cd abc

3. Unzip UCS

tar -xzf /var/local/ucs/MyUCS.ucs

4. Open bigip_base.conf folder

nano config/bigip_base.conf
# or
vi config/bigip_base.conf

5. Change all interface names in bigip_base.conf

1.1 > 1.0
1.2 > 2.0
1.3 > 3.0
...

6. Save bigip_base.conf

7. Zip files

tar -czf /var/local/ucs/newMyUCS.ucs *

8. Enter vm's f5mku value

f5mku -r <vm f5mku value>

9. Restore UCS

tmsh
load sys ucs newMyUCS.ucs no-license no-platform-check

Article for f5mku: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K9420