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jomedusa
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Nov 30, 2023

Upgrade F5 Deploy Hotfix deployment

We are upgrading our LTM's to 16.1.4.1 Build 5 and had a question about installing the hotfix.  Should I install the hotfix intially when I upgrade the system?  Thanks, Joe
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jomedusa
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Nov 30, 2023

Thanks so much for the responses...one final question is the host is not running the host fix it is running the base image of 16.1.4.1 will be an issue if the guest is running the hotfix?

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F5_Design_Engineer
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Nov 30, 2023

Host/parent os and guest/child os are independent of each other.

You can check the host guest compatibility matrix in F5 site

They csn also be compatible on one on 26.x and child on 14.x but it's always recommended to have the latest version of is and hotfix on all the parent as well as guest as possible. When doing host guest upgrade change the state of guest to deploy to provision N vise versa to preserve their config from being corrupt. Same like we force offline similar way just shut down the all standby child vcmp gracefully on one side standalone parent before starting upgrading parent/host 

 

K14088: vCMP host and compatible guest version matrix - MyF5 | Support https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K14088

https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K75476930