Backup and Restore to new hardware

• Remove those licenses that new hardware doesn't

• Ensure configuration are synced: On Active device

  • list cm device-group

  • tmsh run cm config-sync force-full-load-push to-group $device_group

• Archive config: System > Archives > New Archive to extract configuration in UCS files

  • Download ucs file which will be uploaded to new guest in new hardware

• Go to old hardware: and provision corresponding guest (shut it down)

  • VCMP: Guest list, then select and provision to shut it down

• Go to new hardware: Tenant Management > Tenant Deployments

  • put it the same IP address, gateway, VLANS and so on

  • Number of CPU

  • Then deploy

• Setting resource provisioning for new guest to match old one

• Upload archive (downloaded before) to new guest on new hardware: System > Archive > Upload file

• Get the master key from old working (active) guest and put to new guest in new hardware

  • f5kmu -k: get the key from old guest

  • f5kmu -r $keyfromaoldguest: to new guest

• Load configuration to new guest on new hardware: tmsh load /sys ucs $filefromuploadstepabove.ucs not platform-check

  • Wiat for it to apply configuration

• Sync configuration from old active guest to new standby one