Welcome to the F5 BIG-IP Migration Assistant - Now the F5 Journeys App
The older F5 BIG-IP Migration Assistant is deprecated and is replaced by F5 Journeys.
Welcome to the F5 Journeys App - BIG-IP Upgrade and Migration Utility
F5 Journeys App Readme @ Github
What is it?
The F5® Journeys BIG-IP upgrade and migration utility is a tool freely distributed by F5 to facilitate migrating BIG-IP configurations between different platforms. F5 Journeys is a downloadable assistant that coordinates the logistics required to migrate a BIG-IP configuration from one BIG-IP instance to another.
Why do I need it?
JOURNEYS is an application designed to assist F5 Customers with migrating a BIG-IP configuration to a new F5 device and enable new ways of migrating.
Supported journeys:
- Full Config migration - migrating a BIG-IP configuration from any version starting at 11.5.0 to a higher one, including VELOS and rSeries systems.
- Application Service migration - migrating mission critical Applications and their dependencies to a new AS3 configuration and deploying it to a BIG-IP instance of choice.
What does it do?
It does a bunch of stuff:
- Loading UCS or UCS+AS3 source configurations
- Flagging source configuration feature parity gaps and fixing them with provided built-in solutions
- Load validation
- Deployment of the updated configuration to a destination device, including VELOS and rSeries VM tenants
- Post-migration diagnostics
- Generating detailed PDF reports at every stage of the journey
Full config BIG-IP migrations are supported for software paths according to the following matrix:
| DEST | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| X | 11.x | 12.x | 13.x | 14.x | 15.x | 16.x | |
| <11.5 | X | X | X | X^ | X^ | ||
| 12.x | X | X | X | X^ | |||
| SRC | 13.x | X | X | X | |||
| 14.x | X | X | X | ||||
| 15.x | X | X | |||||
| 16.x |
How does it work?
F5 Journeys App manages the logistics of a configuration migration. The F5 Journeys App either generates or accepts a UCS file from you, prompts you for a destination BIG-IP instance, and manages the migration. The destination BIG-IP instance has a tmsh command that performs the migration from a UCS to a running system. F5 Journeys uses this tmsh command to accomplish the migration using the platform-migrate option (see more details K82540512) .
The F5 Journeys App prompts you to enter a source BIG-IP (or upload a UCS file), the master key password, and destination BIG-IP instance. Once the tool obtains this information, it allows you to migrate the source BIG-IP configuration to the destination BIG-IP instance either entirely or in a per-application depending what you choose.
Where do I obtain it?
F5 Journeys App Readme @ Github
What can go wrong?
Bug reporting
Let us know if something went wrong. By reporting issues, you support development of this project and get a chance of having it fixed soon. Please use bug template available here and attach the journeys.log file from the working directory (
/tmp/journeysFeature requests
Ideas for enhancements are welcome here
For questions or further discussion please leave your comments below. Enjoy!
38 Comments
Stanislas: I will see about getting the documentation updated to mention the older version of platform-migrate in TMOS for older versions.
Thanks for the comments.
PK: A couple questions:
- Are you uploading a UCS by hand, or are you having Migration Assistant contact your devices for you?
- What version of Migration Assistant are you working with?
- What OS is running the machine where you are using Migration Assistant?
Thanks!
- P_K
Altostratus
Awesome tool! Right on time for our DR project.. But I keep getting this error
when tried to add devices.TypeError: Cannot read property 'description' of undefined 
Stanislas_Piro2Cumulonimbus
Nice, the documentation doesn't say that the command existed before with such limitation. I hope it will be changed! it can help people who want to migrate to previous versions even if last versions are recommended.
I would have preferred that it be available before. I migrated a BigIP with LTM, AFM, ASM, APM last summer to version 13.0 to vCMP and I had to migrate without this option because of this limitation.
Yes, platform-migrate on versions 12.1.3 or 13.1.0 or greater now supports all modules
- Stanislas_Piro2
Does it mean platform-migrate now support any BIGIP module?
previously, this feature supported only LTM migration.
AWS support is coming in early 2018. Other cloud platforms are also planned including Azure and Google. No firm dates yet.
Awesome. Is support for other cloud providers planned?
How does the AWS integration work? I don't see an option to specify that as a destination.
