Migrating from BigIP 2000 series to BigIP 2600 series
We currently have a BigIP 2000 LTM HA pair running v12.1.3.3 (we will be upgrading to 13.x soon). We purchased a comparable BigIP 2600 LTM HA pair. We are planning a migration to the 2600.
We have the luxury of being able to keep both F5 HA pairs in production for about a year which will allow us to migrate our VS' over slowly. The plan is to use different vlans for our dmz/public network (where our VS' live) on the 2600 series. The private vlans (where our nodes live) will not change when we migrate our nodes to the 2600 series.
My question is can I just import the complete backup of my 2000 series into the new 2600 series LTM (They will both be runing the same version 13.x)? Being that the VS's vlans are different, the VS's ips wont be able to ARP out (and the 2000 series will still be running the show). At this point, to enable the VS's on the 2600 series, I can change the VS's ip address to match the new vlans. Simultaneously, I can change the corresponding VS' ip address on the 2000 series to disable it. The Pools, Profiles, Certificates, Nodes, irules should all remain the same. Would that work? Am I missing something? What is the best way to do this?
My question is how can I import stuff like the nodes, Profiles, Certificates, pools, etc that are not going to change? Our VIP ip address' are the only things that will change