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colinw_190728
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Mar 12, 2015

Upgrading LTM from 10.x to 11.x

We have a pair of LTM's in an Active/Standby deployment. We want to upgrade from version 10.x to 11.x. Can we upgrade the standby unit & then make it active, to do some testing before upgrading the o...
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Kharsma_176894
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Mar 12, 2015

Well said Pedro!

 

I didn't think about it earlier, but it is always a good idea to create a backup and store it off the device just in case. Another note to add just because this one threw me off the first time; once you restart the first (Standby) device they will both read as standalone, but your active will still say active, and your standby will still say standby, if you see active/active or standby/standby that is a pretty good indicator that something may have gone wrong.

 

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Pedro_Haoa
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Mar 12, 2015
Yeah. I'm pretty sure that we can keep to adding notes to the process. I mean Who has not happened something strange upgrading an F5? Most of the time the all process it's pretty straighforward but sometimes you can get a new BIG-IP challenge ;-)