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Muffe_183891
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Jan 23, 2015

Upgrade F5 BIG-IP from 11.5 to 11.6

Hi,   We got a security notice from AWS that our current F5 version 11.5 has a known security risk and they recommend us to update the version.   So we did and created a new instance and uploa...
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Alex__Applebaum
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Great. Still working with Dev to figure out what exact issue is with supporting major version upgrades on hourly billing AMIs. Will keep this post updated.

 

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Alex__Applebaum
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Apr 30, 2015
Sorry, thought I posted this before: Here is low down re: Upgrades: Type: "Software": (ex. in place upgrades like major versions from 11.5.x to 11.6.x using standard isos from downloads.f5.com via live install process mentioned above ) -> We apologize. This is officially supported but there were a few bugs that have been affecting this: related to a permissions issue when user changed from root to admin in 11.6 and another related to licensing. However, upgrading software is officially supported for both BYOL and Utility and should start work starting 11.5.1 HF8 + 11.6.0 HF4. "Increasing Instance Size:" (ex. m3.large to m3.xlarge) -> supported starting in 11.6 for BYOL, in next release major release for utility licenses. "License": (ex. Good to Best ) -> Only BYOL. (Utility is tied to AWS's "software" billing as well which we don't control).