NimbostratusI inherited a Viprion chassis that was configured unnecessarily with vCMP. It is serving no value but does complicate the implementation. Can VCMP safely be removed from the chassis without having to basically recreate everything (VIPs, Pools, Nodes etc)?
CirrusSo the chassis currently has LTM and vCMP provisioned? That's bad, but yes you should be able to remove vCMP and retain your LTM config, but it may need to reboot when you change the module provisioning. As a precaution always take a UCS first.
CirrusYes, but remember that a vCMP guest works like a virtual machine guest--the config files are in the guest, and it won't be enough to simply de-provision the vCMP module.
Basic Steps: 1. Get your config files from the vCMP guest (UCS may work but also may overwrite management settings on host). 1. Go to Resource Provisioning on the VIPRION physical host and re-provision to your specs. Reload. 1. Import UCS file/config files.
Unless you have an HA pair, expect some downtime. With an HA pair (guest or host) you can do this without losing more than a ping's worth of traffic.
You can also manually export parts of your configuration and import them using the command-line, but I've done the steps above before with success.