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Brad_146558
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May 02, 2014

Adding a NIC to BIG-IP

I had a best practices question about adding NICs to a virtual BIG-IP. We are in a vCloud environment and we needed to take a short maintenance window at night to power off our BIG-IP and add a NIC. ...
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StephanManthey
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May 02, 2014

I just gave it a try on a v11.5.1HF2 running in VMware Workstation 9. The SSH was hanging for a while after adding the new network adapter in the hypervisor.

I had to run "bigstart restart" to get the new interface listed by: 

tmsh show net interface

I would plan a maintenance window for a change like this to be on the safe side.