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Sep 14, 2016

Migrating VIP's form LTM 2000 series to 5000 series

Hello, Can anyone let me know that If we can migrate the VIP's running on LTM 2000 series with code 11.5.3 with HF2 to LTM 5000 series running 11.5.4 with HF2 without any errors or problems?? If any errors or problems may occur what kind of errors they might be and what precautions to be taken care. And also Can we use self IP's as well ??

 

Thank You.

 

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  • You would have to be careful with the default SSL ciphers in the different code versions and make sure the clients are still compatible. Overall since you are moving within 11.5.x code version, you shouldn't see any serious issues. Make sure to check the license check date and back up configuration in the box and outside of it.

     

  • I did this few weeks ago...had to migrate but the hardware was diff. The firmware was exactly the same as yours 11.5.3, HF2 to 11.5.4, HF2. The only issue I has was the legacy applications started to fail when I used the default sslserver profile to re-encrypt the traffic back to server so I created a default profile that allows SSLv3 ect from F5 to backend servers.

     

    i am sure you know you just can't restore the backup file it would be better if you use a separate set of IP's (self and floating) so that both these devices can exist on your network in parallel you can always disable ARP on virtual address and roll back if needed.