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BockyBoy_1026's avatar
BockyBoy_1026
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Sep 12, 2013

Multiple VIPs on one VS

Hi DevCentral community,   Is it possible to have multiple VIPs for the one virtual server? It may seem like a strange request, but its to do with a ip address migration.   Obviously I can crea...
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brad_11480
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Aug 26, 2014

i'm going to be going through the same thing. We are moving our public IP's to another block so all of our IP's have to change on the virtual servers and for a period of time both need to be active to handle requests coming in from the old IP while the new IP is being advertised.

 

It would be so very helpful for F5 to support more than one destination for a virtual server.

 

Right, it sounds like I need to duplicate the virtual server and change the destination IP and give it a new name... so now I'm dealing with new names for these... or maybe rename the old one.. oh, thats right, they don't let you rename a virtual sever (or much of anything for that matter).

 

The little irritating things that would make life so much simpler.. awesome product, just a lot of strange, basic things, you just can't do..

 

  • BockyBoy_1026's avatar
    BockyBoy_1026
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    Aug 26, 2014
    Hi Brad, Obviously I did complete this sometime ago now - but in the end, what I did was get a copy of the bigip.conf file and "massaged" it to both rename the existing VS, and create new VS. I then uploaded the file back to the F5, did a syntax check and then loaded it up into config. As I had a HA pair, I performed the changes on the second F5, and checked it all through the gui. then did a config sync. In my environment there was no downtime when I did this, and it took a total of about 10 minutes. Im not surprised that people mentioned this method to me - it was pretty quick and painless. Just as an FYI - almost anything can be renamed in this manner. I agree it would be nice to do through the GUI sometimes, but its not that bad to edit the file directly.
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    StephanManthey
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    Sep 01, 2014
    Renaming objects is on many customers wishlist since a long time. The challenge is probably the internal name based referencing. Other vendors approaches using an index as identifier per configuration object are making a developers life probably easier. With TMOS v11.6 (available for download now) objects can be renamed according to the release notes. But I didn´t check the new feature by now.