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ashish_solanki
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Jan 18, 2021

F5 Upgrade having modules LTM,GTM,APM & ASM

Hi All,   We have f5 VMs hosted in Azure and we want to upgrade these VMs. We are thinnking to spin a new VM with version 15.1.x and upload the backup of existing VMs which are running on 12.1.5....
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Pedro_Haoa
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Jan 27, 2021

Hi,

 

There are a lot of changes between v12.1 and v15.1, especially in the security modules.

Remember that when you plan for an upgrade to BIG-IP 15.x, F5 recommends that you must be running BIG-IP 13.x through 15.x to upgrade to BIG-IP 15.x.

K13845: Overview of supported BIG-IP upgrade paths and an upgrade planning reference

 

A better approach could be upgrade from v12.1 to v13.1 and then try the platform-migrate option to go to v15.1.

K82540512: Overview of the UCS archive 'platform-migrate' option

 

My 2 cents.