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Hi!
We have recently migrated from BIGP 3600 to 5250 VCMP. I have created a deployment guide that shows how we did the migration successfully. Se below:
How to migrate a UCS archive to a different BIG-IP platform type
Before you begin:
- Provision the Plattform as a vCMP host, create a new guest that matches the version for wich you have the 11.x UCS to be migrated.
- Sync the config between current Active and Standby devices.
- Create an UCS archive from both devices using the GUI and copy the file to a safe place.
- Set the Standby device to “Force Offline” and then shutdown the device.
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Obtain the master key from the platform you want to migrate the configuration. SOL9420
- f5mku -K
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Create a UCS archive from the platform you want to migrate the configuration and SCP the file to your computer.
- tmsh save /sys ucs /var/local/ucs/MyUCS.ucs
- scp MyUCS.ucs username@yourcomputer:/tmp
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Excract the bigip_base.conf file from the UCS archive and:
- remove stp configuration
- remove trunk configuration
- remove interface references from vlan configuration
- remove lacp configuration
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Repack the UCS arhive with the modified bigip_base.conf file.
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SCP the UCS file to the platform you want to install on. (/var/local/ucs)
- scp MyUCS.ucs root@ip-new-platform:/var/local/ucs
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Log in to the NEW platform system command line.
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Install the master key that you copied in step 1 using the following syntax:
- f5mku -r
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Verify that the master key is the same on the active device and the NEW platform using the following command on both systems:
- f5mku -K
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Restore the UCS file to the NEW platform using the following syntax:
- tmsh load sys ucs .ucs no-license no-platform-check
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To save and load the configuration, and to ensure no errors, type the following commands from the NEW platform system command line:
- tmsh save sys config
- tmsh load sys config verify
- tmsh load sys config partitions all
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Reboot the device
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Rollback plan
- Shut down the new Devices and enable the switchports for old Devices. We are then back to normal with the solution as before we started.