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ora_68925
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Jun 21, 2011

Upgrading services with no downtime

Can I upgrade the services being provided on a BIG-IP LTM without creating downtime for the client ?     I know you have to reboot after you register with a new key but what about just adding ne...
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hooleylist
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Jun 21, 2011
Hi Ora,

 

 

Are you asking about upgrading the LTM OS version? If so, do you have a redundant pair of units? If both are true, you can upgrade with a single forced reconnect of connections when you fail over to upgrade the peer unit.

 

 

If you're talking about upgrading the application being load balanced, you should be able to do this without any downtime if the application can handle sessions from the old version.

 

 

Aaron