Consolidation of hardware BIG-IP on vCMP guests
Hi there,
I'm just about to start a consolidation process of several BIG-IP 2000S into our new vCMP platform. I've looking for some documentation about consolidation good practices or technical recommendations but I haven't find much.
My first thought was getting a UCS in the 2000S and load it in the guest, but I guess that first I've to adapt somehow the config to the guest "platform" (more than just loading it with the no-platform o no-license check options). I'm thinking here in things like VLAN definitions or physical interface definitions that are all specified in the bigip_base.conf
Maybe it's enough with editing the file, remove completely VLAN and interface definitions and try to load it with the tmsh sys load config command.
From your experience, are the physical interfaces and VLAN configuration all that I should remove (or adapt in any way) or there's something more?
Second option I'm thinking of is just recreating all the LTM objects (nodes, pools, virtual servers) and re-importing certificates, external monitors... through config merge or maybe a tmsh script. Doing the consolidation process more "manually" but this is a lot more of work, and I'd prefer to adapt the config and just load the UCS in the guest.
Prefering the UCS approach I'm afraid of letting behind some snippet of configuration that could cause weird behaviors at guest level. From some tests that I've done loading the UCS, I got weird interfaces and an incorrect monitoring of the nodes and pools.
Any recommendation will be very welcomed! :) Thanks!