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N__197982
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Apr 04, 2018

Move configuration from Physical LTM(10.x) to Virtual LTM(12.x)

Folks, We are going to switch one of our environment from a physical device to a virtual device. The physical device is on 10.x version and the new virtual devices would be on 12.x version.   We n...
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RaghavendraSY_7
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Apr 04, 2018

Please perform following steps:

 

  1. Take UCS backup of your physical device
  2. Configure only management IP on your virtual machine.
  3. Copy UCS file from your physical device to virtual machine( use SCP or WISCP or other tools)
  4. Once UCS file is copied to virtual machine install UCS using below command tmsh load sys ucs /var/local/ucs/ verify
  5. See for any errors and if no errors are observed then install UCS as mentioned below. tmsh load sys ucs /var/local/ucs/ no-license
  6. Note down all your encrypted password rg: Tacacs, LDAP etc.. because some time ucs will not load with encrypted passwords.
  7. If you receive errors for encrypted password
  8. Go to Config folder and take bigip.conf file and then nullify all the passwords with empty
  9. Then load ucs file again Please let me know any more information is required
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N__197982
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Apr 04, 2018

How would we be able to take care about the SSL certificates with this? That is a challenge, right?