Restoring a VE with a UCS
Hello All, I am fairly new (1 year or so) working with the Virtual edition and am now writing a disaster recovery document for our deployment. I am hoping someone out there has done it before I attempt it. I took the troubleshooting class so I know that if the vm crashes and you have to import a new ovf that when you recover from the UCS you have to issue a no license switch. What I would like to know before that would be how much of the networking do you need to rebuild before you use the UCS. We do not have a management network so I have to access the VEs from a self-ip that allows HTTPS and SSH. Could I create the external vlan, the self-ip that allows me to scp the ucs to the new re-licensed (I would have already released the license and using the offline license tool relicensed it) and restore from tmsh the rest of the configuration, or do I need to create all of the vlans, and the external, internal and HA sef-ips as well? Any input would be much appreciated!
Comparing two UCS backup files
Is there anyway to compare two ucs files? A customer did an upgrade without follow thesoftware compatibility matrix, apparently everything worked ok untiluntil I detected a high cpu consume. F5 support team recommended us to do a rollback and then upgrade again followingthesoftware compatibility matrix rebuilding the configuration changes by hand. The problem is my customer doesn´t know how many changes have been made since the bad upgrade so I want to compare the current UCS and the UCS that I will get after doing the correct update process to find the configuration changesSpace in /var on physical device
I have been trying to run a BIGIP upgrade and keep getting stuck at the final part of the install where it checks for space in /var. This seems to be when the config has been put into a ucs and it wants to extract it. We have symlinked /var/local/ucs to a different location but it still fails as it seems to check just /var. We have removed everything possible but cannot get it to a point where there is enough space to work. What solutions is there for this problem on a physical device? As I understand it you can only resize /var on a VE. Thanks in advance
UCS Platform Migration
Hi all, I'm looking for some assistance with moving the configuration from an old BIGIP to a new platform. Both boxes are running different code versions at the moment (old box is running 11.5.4, the new box is on 12.1.2), and are two different platforms. I haven't had much success with the platform-migrate option (the new BIGIP has a different hostname, and management address), and it throws up an error when loading it (and locks me out of the config utility at the same time!). I'm guessing that I can create an SCF on the old box, modify it, and load it onto the new box? However, i do have a concern that the SCF contains platform specific information and the software versions won't match. Would i need to merge the SCF from the old box, with an SCF on the new box? Any assistance would be much appreciated! Thanks.
Migrating from Physical to Virtual f5
We are running a physical f5 (BIG-IP 11.3) and wondering if there is a way to restore the ucs (from the physical setup) onto a virtual f5? (Note: Our physical f5 is in appliance mode) We originally ran into a platform issue which we resolved with SOL13136 http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/100/sol13136.html Now we don't see that error, but it still fails. If any additional information is needed. Please ask!01071aca:3: Client SSL profile (/Common/crypto-server-default-clientssl): Certificate matching the configured cipher suites doesn't exist.
I was making test with a Strongbox unit, and after relicensed with the same modules, I got this error and the config doesn't load correctly. I cant save config, load config. I didnt find any hint about whet to check, the config files are ok with the config, but the device is not loading them. I was running 14.0.0.2 - Point Release 2.
