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willian_wrcs
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Mar 26, 2021

Upgrade VM Hardware version 14 for the BIG-IP appliance 15.1

Hello everyone,   I need to check if it is possible and approved to upgrade VM Hardware to version 14 (ESXi 6.7) for the BIG-IP appliance 15.1.2.1 Build 0.0.10. By default, the BIG-IP appliance ...
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willian_wrcs
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Mar 26, 2021

Thanks for the feedback.

 

I forgot to mention that I have knowledge about this KB.

So there must be some reason why BIG-IP uses such old versions of VM Hardware. Can you tell me where I can get this information?

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Daniel_Wolf
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Mar 26, 2021

Haha, yes, you should mentioned that you know this KB. Never mind.

I have no documentation that would explain why the OVA images are build to use such "old" versions of VM hardware, but my first guess is for backwards compatibility.