Platform upgradation

Hi ,

the way the Niels suggested is also very promising, with the one exception when you are using APM.

See: K7040: BIG-IP APM and FirePass do not support mixing hardware platforms within an HA pair

In case you are not using APM, it is really a good way and I'd recommend it too.

The extra steps for the other process of migration depend a bit on the way you want to migrate.

Do you plan to have a zero downtime migration, or do you have a change window?

Independent from that, I will try to give some general advice.

In case you want to keep the management and self IP addresses, you could restore the UCS archive on the new platform using options no-license and no-platform-check (K14906).

If you want to change the management IP and also the self IPs you could use no-license and platform-migrate options (K82540512).

However, changing management or self IP addresses usually is also not a big issue, unless they are used for config sync, HA or mirroring. In that case... we are back to the point where I would recommend to get help from someone who has done this before.

Either way - you would have to make a plan how the old and new devices are not online at the same time, to avoid IP address conflicts. Easiest is, in my opinion, to disable the interfaces on the switch at a certain point in time.

KR

Daniel