hamzazubairi
May 09, 2022Nimbostratus
upgrade the F5 LTM
Hi team, I need to upgrade my f5 LTM physical box. what are the essentials measures/pre-checks i should take up in order to upgrade this appliance.
Hi,
All the replies below are awesome as always, from me i'd just like to point out that the f5 upgrades by using boot partions to give clean segregation and a roll back.
So to complete a upgrade you MUST reboot the appliance, i still think the rseries will still need some sort of service restart for the new modules. So the key here is, have you got a secondary/standby you can move the traffic over to? or do you need to arrange a 15-20 min outage window as it reboots?
The f5 is great at doing this sort of stuff, the issue for really comes abount change control and its business impact.
Hope that helps. P