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corrado
Altostratus
AltostratusvCMP Upgrade : do I need to change the Guests' "Initial Image" to match the new iso before Deploying the guest again ?
Hello there, we are planning to upgrade our vCMP Hosts and all of the hosted Guests to version 11.4. (Platform BIG-IP i5800) Yesterday I succesfully upgraded the Host and its Guests in our 't...
Hi Corrado,
My suggestion would be to retain the ISO of whichever version the Guests are currently running just in case you have to re-create the Guest or load a UCS backup. We have an article that mentions this briefly as well.
"Guest initial image .iso files should be retained on the host system. When loading a UCS file on the host, if the initial image .iso file has been removed, the UCS will fail to load and will indicate that it is waiting for the initial image."
K15930: Overview of vCMP configuration considerations
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K15930
-Nathan F
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Employee
EmployeeHi Corrado,
My suggestion would be to retain the ISO of whichever version the Guests are currently running just in case you have to re-create the Guest or load a UCS backup. We have an article that mentions this briefly as well.
"Guest initial image .iso files should be retained on the host system. When loading a UCS file on the host, if the initial image .iso file has been removed, the UCS will fail to load and will indicate that it is waiting for the initial image."
K15930: Overview of vCMP configuration considerations
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K15930
-Nathan F