Migration from F5-VE to F5 Hardware i2000 series

The best solution is to :

• Create an archive on VE
• Configure i2000 with different IP address than VE
• switch i2000 to OFFLINE mode
• Configure VE and hardware with sync and failover network on one self IP
• move Self IP (used for sync) to Allow default on both systems
• add i2000 in VE trust peers --> Master key is synchronized to new peer
• create a device group sync-failover with both systems
• Sync VE to i2000 --> all cluster configuration is synced, including routes, dns, vs, pools
• failover to i2000
• disconnect VE vNICs (to fallback, you can restore archive... it will remove cluster configuration)
• remove VE and i2000 from Device group
• Remove the VE from i2000 device trust
• The i2000 is now in Standalone mode
• move Self IP (used for sync) to Allow None

This solution requires both system to be in same TMOS version, same release Point.