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Luca_Comes
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Jun 07, 2019

Migration from virtual to hw appliance

Dear all, I'm managing an old BIG-IP VE cluster running release 12.1.1 and provisioned with LTM, ASM and APM. Now we have a new couple of BIG-IP i7600 running version 14.1.0.2 provisioned with LTM a...
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Stanislas_Piro2's avatar
Stanislas_Piro2
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Jun 08, 2019

Here is the process which will make it simpler

 

  1. Configure new HW with different self IPs and Management IPs
  2. Allow in Firewalls new Self IPs to access pool members if there is firewall between F5 and nodes.
  3. create a cluster between hardware and VE.
  4. synchronize from VE member to HW.
  5. failover to HW
  6. Check if everything works as expected.
  7. failover to VE
  8. Upgrade HW to version 14.1.0.5
  9. failover to HW
  10. Check if everything works as expected.
  11. switch off VE
  12. remove VE from Cluster device groups in HW configuration
  13. remove VE from Peer list in HW configuration

 

I did this 2 weeks ago without issue

 

 

  • Luca_Comes's avatar
    Luca_Comes
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    Jun 10, 2019

    Hi Stanislas,

    I was thinking aout that but I have some problems. First my VE is made by 2 VM clustered and I now that APM module support up to 2 device in a cluster. So to perform the action I should open the VE cluster, insert an hardware platform, sync configuration, and rebuild the old cluster and the new hardware cluster. Moreover my HA VLAN is local to devices and is not transported over the network so I should reconfigure also this part. I'd prefer not modify the production environment but I understand it perhaps is the unique solution.