RE: Upgrading LTM 10 to 11 which version is good in 11 please suggest

I am running 11.2.0 HF1 and that has been stable for me, but I am running it on a dedicated ASM box so I don't have LTM licensing. I upgraded from 10.2.0 and a couple of gotchas that I ran into that would pertain to the LTM side are listed below.

 

 

1. HTTP Compression is split into its own profile. If you have compression turned in any of your HTTP profiles you will need to turn it off, do the upgrade and then create seperate Compression profiles. My configuration completely bombed out when I tried to upgrade it straight up

 

 

2. On the SSL profiles Secure Re-negotiation is enabled by default which on the server side ended up breaking a lot of my server communication so I had to create another base serverssl profile and turn it off.

 

 

Those are the two major LTM related issues I remember all my other stumbling blocks were on the ASM side

I think the same applies to HTTP Caching, it's now in a WebAccelerator profile.

hey thanks for the reply

 

can you provide me the documents if you have any on the upgrade and also major differences inbetween the version 10 and 11

 

Another thing I've thought of is the changes in HA configuration, these can be quite significant.

 

 

This is the official guide but it doesn't mention anything we have so far: http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/bigip-upgrade-active-standby-11-2-0.html?sr=25593918

 

 

A trawl through the v11.0 release notes might be more useful: http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/releasenotes/product/relnote_11_0_0_ltm.html?sr=25593982

 

 

You probably want to do a few tests on a spare if you have one!