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Wasfi_182818
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Dec 05, 2016
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take a UCS on system1 and restore it on system2

Hi;

 

When you take a UCS on system1 with LTM and DNS modules and their specific configuration and then restore it on system 2 which has a license only for LTM, how would that work? would the configuration restore correctly

 

Kindly Wasfi

 

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  • Hannes_Rapp_162's avatar
    Hannes_Rapp_162
    Dec 05, 2016

    Config load would fail. You can address this issue by loading System2 configuration from an UCS which does not have DNS module provisioned. Go to System -> Resource Provisioning, and untick DNS. After a reboot, you can create an UCS on System1 which is exempt of any DNS/GTM config. This should load successfully on System2 which is the LTM-only box.

     

    If you're familiar with the UCS archive, you can also get your UCS prepared without any downtime. Since UCS is equal to a regular unix tarball, it's possible to extract the files from it, have them modified, and re-bundled into a new UCS tarball.

     

    Regards,

     

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  • Hannes_Rapp's avatar
    Hannes_Rapp
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    Dec 05, 2016

    Config load would fail. You can address this issue by loading System2 configuration from an UCS which does not have DNS module provisioned. Go to System -> Resource Provisioning, and untick DNS. After a reboot, you can create an UCS on System1 which is exempt of any DNS/GTM config. This should load successfully on System2 which is the LTM-only box.

     

    If you're familiar with the UCS archive, you can also get your UCS prepared without any downtime. Since UCS is equal to a regular unix tarball, it's possible to extract the files from it, have them modified, and re-bundled into a new UCS tarball.

     

    Regards,

     

  • Hannes_Rapp_162's avatar
    Hannes_Rapp_162
    Icon for Nacreous rankNacreous
    Dec 05, 2016

    Config load would fail. You can address this issue by loading System2 configuration from an UCS which does not have DNS module provisioned. Go to System -> Resource Provisioning, and untick DNS. After a reboot, you can create an UCS on System1 which is exempt of any DNS/GTM config. This should load successfully on System2 which is the LTM-only box.

     

    If you're familiar with the UCS archive, you can also get your UCS prepared without any downtime. Since UCS is equal to a regular unix tarball, it's possible to extract the files from it, have them modified, and re-bundled into a new UCS tarball.

     

    Regards,