Upgrade from F5 appliance (hardware) to F5 appliance (Virtual)

Yes.. Great thanks for sharing this article. I understood it better:)

but

Challenge : Problem in our environment F5 appliances is that those existing LTM and GTM appliance are running with Version 10.X which older one.

Now decision made by internally management team to upgrade from hardware appliance to Virtual appliance along with 11.x or later (newer ) version of operating system.

Its mentioned in the article that:

• "The platform-migrate parameter does not work for migrating BIG-IP UCS files from BIG-IP 10.x. If you are migrating BIG-IP, you must start with a BIG-IP configuration from a BIG-IP 11.x installation." 

Solution: So now how can we proceed with this kind of migration activity without involving F5 support ?

Many thanks,