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ILIAS_g_183177
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Dec 29, 2015

VE to HW migration

Hello,   I would like to ask if an existing highly available (2 nodes, active-standby) F5 LTM VE 200M can be added with hardware F5 2000s. If not, can the migration of the VE to HW be with no dow...
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theCook
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Jan 17, 2016

The more seamless option is to add the new devices to the group and sync the configuration. Since you're working with VE, you'll want to be at least on version 11.5.0.

 

SOL15496 discusses upgrading hardware platforms, the same idea should apply here. Link for reference:

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/15000/400/sol15496