My first BIG-IP upgrade

Hi R23,

 

 

If you're upgrading from 10.2.0 to 10.2.3, you can just upload the base ISO and hotfix to /shared/images and then install it on a non-active slot. If you want to preserve the existing slots, you can create a new slot to install to under System | Software Management | Volume Management. Once you have a volume to install to, you can go to Image List (or hotfix list if you're going to install a hotfix), select the image and click Install. The installation will be done in the background. If you have uploaded the base ISO and hotfix, you can install just the hotfix. The base ISO will be installed during the process.

 

 

For an HA pair, you can perform the same process on the peer unit. Once the installation completes you can boot to the newly installed slot on the standby unit, fail over and then boot the peer unit to the 10.2.3 slot. The only downtime you should see is during the failover.

 

 

You can do all of this from the command line using tmsh. For details, you can check the tmsh guide.

 

 

Aaron