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- crodriguezRet. Employee
If you have not already done so, you should check in with F5 Technical Support about upgrade support. There are many considerations when upgrading from v10 to v11, especially to v11.6 and especially in the area of configuration file incompatibilities. (See https://devcentral.f5.com/questions/upgrading-from-version-10-to-version-11-synchronization-configs-lost for other experiences.) For example, in v11.4, support for the HTTPClass profile was dropped in favor of using Local Traffic Policies. (See https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/14000/400/sol14409.html for a little guidance.) This manual chapter - https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/tmos-active-standby-upgrade-11-1-0/1.html - provides a high level overview of the upgrade process and, while it's a start, it's not indicative of all of the upgrade considerations.
- Hannes_RappNimbostratus
There are tons :)
I've given some samples to a similar question posted here: https://devcentral.f5.com/questions/i-am-planning-to-upgrade-my-f5-from-1024-to-116-what-upgrade-process-i-have-to-follow
If you're not experienced with such major upgrades, using a proxy installation may help you, i.e. you first upgrade from 10.2.4 to 11.2.1, and then from 11.2.1 to 11.6. Chewing it all at once might turn out to be too difficult, therefore, using v11.2.1 as a midway-checkpoint is worth a consider. The upgrade from 10.2.4 to 11.5.3 or 11.6 is a common project for which many companies hire external consultants for. Major upgrades are still a weak spot of F5, unfortunately not as straight-forward, especially in case of multiple provisioned modules and complex configurations.
- JGCumulonimbus
11.6.0 seems to be behind in bug fixing compared with v11.5.3; you might want to consider having the latter instead as that is a long-term release, 11.6.0 has only until 25-Aug-2016 when it reaches "End of Software Development" phase. The prospect of an 11.6.1 release does not seem great to me.
Thank you all