copy config from BIGIP 2000 to VE incl filestore fails...
Hello, I do have a tricky situation - and running out of ideas.
There is a BigIP 2000 running 11.6.5.2, LTM and APM, multiple Partitions, lots of iRules and 100+ Datagroups. As an upgrade is needed, we want to test that on a VE. I only have GUI and ssh access to that virtual machine via the management IP.
How can i copy the full config from the BIGIP 2000 onto the VE?
I have tried a ucs (no-license and no-plattform), but that failed.
So used a scf and modified the network settings before, but failed due to the references to the datagroups.
Then copied the full filestore manually over, also the partition folder incl all bigip.confs.
But failed again, as probably this known issue kicks in: "K50710744: Using tmsh to load the configuration from the terminal or from a file fails when an external file is referenced"
For some partitions and their datagroups i followed the recommendation and created manually, and saw them in GUI.
So the VE had all partitions, SSL, and datagroups, as well as the objects in Common created.
used 'tmsh load sys config file' per partition but no success again.
Gave it another try today - lost again: the original admin/root accounts got overwritten. but can use my "personal-admin" via ssh, but tmsh is not possible, GUI does not come up, and I have no root account - so, need someone on the VCenter to access, log in via root and restore my init_ucs from the VE.
Probably there is something simple i miss here! Can someone please share some light?
Thanks in advance!