Redundant pair between Partition and volume

Hi Teepan!

 

Definately not recommended and while failover might work the sync will probably not work.

 

Check this article out (it's about upgrading redundant pairs from 9 to 10 during which you would have a scenario such as the one you described):

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/11000/200/sol11215.html

 

Copied from the SOL:

 

Important: F5 does not support high availability pair configurations in which each system is running a different software version, because this configuration may affect certain functionalities, such as network failover traffic. However, when you follow the standard upgrade procedure, and you upgrade one unit in the high availability pair while the peer system temporarily runs the older version, systems running different but very close maintenance releases are likely to use the same network failover protocol and payload. Systems running different major or minor releases may use a different network failover protocol or payload, causing network failover to cease functioning. F5 recommends that you upgrade BIG-IP high availability pairs that are configured with network failover by performing one of the following Upgrading an active/standby BIG-IP high availability pair configured with network failover procedures. For more information about the F5 software versioning schema, refer to SOL8986: F5 software life cycle policy.

 

Hope that answered your question.

 

/Patrik

 

Thank for reply Patrik

 

Problem is This isn't differrent Version. It's just different disk format.

 

while partition format contain 9.x/10.x it's run 10.x , and the pair volume format run 10.x too.

 

I happen to see problem about sync. everytime It's alway ask to sync recommend even though I just sync. (Don't know it's software or hardware problem though).

 

Hi,

 

Please see if below reference could help: link text

 

In the above mention ref, Please see below text for todo's after performing upgrades\hotfix:

 

After the installation is complete, if you want to activate the boot location that contains the hotfix, use the Configuration utility and browse to System > Software Management > Boot Locations, and then click the boot location that contains the hotfix installation. Clicking the Activate button automatically reboots the system to the specified boot location.

 

In your case, for unit 1 9.x is active and hence not able to sync with unit 2 (10.x). please activate unit 1 with 10.x as active boot location.. It's important to not here, that the "Clicking the Activate button automatically reboots the system to the specified boot location."

 

KRgds, Hari