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Spidey_29396
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Feb 09, 2014

replacing Viprion blade with different Firmware version

I have a concern regarding our F5 Viprion, we have 2 Viprion each have 2 blades. We are using vcmp and 1 guest is using multiple slots. One blade went down and RMA arrives, is it ok to have the blade...
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nitass
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Feb 09, 2014

One blade went down and RMA arrives, is it ok to have the blade swap even if they have different firmware version, one is 11.2.1 HF 3 and the RMA unit has 11.3.0. We don;t have a chassis to downgrade the RMA unit.

 

i understand primary blade will take care of it.

 

sol13965: Overview of the automated process of joining a newly-installed VIPRION blade to the cluster

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/900/sol13965.html