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espy_136854
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May 04, 2016

Migration to new hardware

Hi, Can someone point me to the best way to do this: We currently have a pair of old F5s running 10.2.4. We have now purchased a pair of 2000's running 11.5.3   I have configured the networking, a...
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May 04, 2016

Hello,

 

If your old hardware support v11, try to upgrade to the highest supported v11.x version. Then, you can do a backup of your configuration and you can use a procedure to re-import the configuration in another hardware : https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/14000/900/sol14906.html

 

this Kb article describe important things when moving configuration to a different plateform. You can also see that F5 does not support officially a way to move configuration between dissimilar hardwares. They recommand using the SCF method to achieve such a goal.

 

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    espy_136854
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    May 06, 2016
    Unfortunately, we need to keep the old system as it is on version 10. Any ideas how to do it without upgrading to V11?
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    Yann_Desmarest
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    May 06, 2016
    The best would be then to install the new hardware in v10, migrate the configuration from the old device to the new one, then upgrade the new device in v11. The issue with your requirement is that v10 and v11 configuration files are really differents, there is many changes (for example http class)