Cold Disaster recovery to F5 different geographical location
Hi - I would appreciate some advice on best way to transfer config and certificates to our Disaster Recovery F5.
Both Production and DR sites both use i2600 appliances. Our production BIGIP are configured with high availability with the DR site having standalone appliances.
In the event of a real DR we were hoping to take the latest UCS backup and apply this to the standalone appliance in the DR location. Problem we have is our legacy process no longer works since release of version 11, as the interface and license is carried over in the UCS now.
The main issue I believe is with the bigip_base.conf and the bigip.license. Would it be acceptable to take the latest UCS file and simply replace (within the zip archive) the bigip_base.conf and the bigip.license with the existing one applied to the DR appliance (with correct addressing) and then load the UCS?
Alternatively what would be the recommended method for quickly deploying the same device to another appliance on same hardware and software versions?