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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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Tim_K_92675
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Mar 12, 2015

I would highly recommend purchasing a lab license in order to test/practice/validate your documented upgrade process.

 

Personally, I export an SCF file from all my devices and import them into an isolated lab VM instance. I have to massage a few properties, of course, like commenting out interface configs and what-not in the conf files in order to get them to load. And although I can't run actual traffic through it, I can at least determine what, if anything, will break the upgrade process and document/remediate those things before the real upgrade is performed. This scheme has proved invaluable and saved me a lot of headaches and sleepless nights.

 

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Sumanta_88744
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Sep 27, 2016

Hi Experts

 

Will UCS archive work from 10.2 to 11.6? If we take backup in older version 10.2 and then restore after upgrading to 11.6?

 

This is just in case the documented process of upgrade fails at some point.