Questions about migration of 5050 to i5800

Planning migration of 5050 (HA) to pair of i5800.

Current F5 has LTM and ASM configured. Configs are in multiple partitions, not only Common. Running on 14.1.4.

I came across some past postings that suggest platform migration, which is essentially no license and platform check.

Pre-requisites:

1. License the new boxes
2. Ensure the software version is aligned

Question: Correct me if I'm wrong.

Platform Migration

https://devcentral.f5.com/s/articles/migrating-to-iseries-from-older-platforms-its-about-time-25612

I read platform-migrate do not include

a. Migration of module configurations other than those for LTM and GTM.

Question: We have ASM. Do we need to export import the policies? Will that include parameters/URLs that we have added based on suggestion? The i5800 will have Adv WAF.

b.

• VLANs (both host and guest)
• Management and Self-IP addresses
• Config sync trust group information
• Trunk group configuration

Question: To cover all these will it be wise tinkering with bigip_base.conf to ensure the network interface is referred correctly (assuming different) for i5800? Otherwise what else should be done to achieve the missing config.

Creating the UCS file with master key

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K82540512

Do we do this on both the boxes?