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David_M__140305
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Aug 01, 2014

Patching GTM VE 11.5 with HF4

Disclaimer: New to F5.   I spun up the 11.5 base VM and I'm trying to run the hotfix. I used the 31GB template but I can't update the active boot partition. I shutdown the VM, added an extra drive...
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Kevin_Davies_40
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Aug 01, 2014

You don't patch the active partition, ever. You install the entire image onto an inactive partition, patch that, then reboot into it. That is how BIGIP does patching. It also means you can fallback to the original partition if the new update does not give you what you want.