Bug ID 1105361: Unable to deploy BIG-IP on Azure with D series(v5) or E series(v5) instance types

Last Modified: Apr 07, 2025

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP Install/Upgrade, LTM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
16.1.2.2, 16.1.3, 16.1.3.1, 16.1.3.2, 16.1.3.3, 16.1.3.4, 16.1.3.5, 16.1.4, 16.1.4.1, 16.1.4.2, 16.1.4.3, 16.1.5, 16.1.5.1, 16.1.5.2

Opened: May 10, 2022

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

When the BIG-IP is deployed with either D series(v5) or E(v5) series, the Azure is unable to add a route to Azure which is used by Azure to communicate with the instance. It is throwing DHCP timeout error as below. Due to this, Azure is unable to communicate and fetch the status and other details of the instances deployed.

Impact

Deployment of BIG-IP on Dv5/Ev5 series timeout due to OS Provisioning timeout.

Conditions

When the BIG-IP is deployed with either D series(v5) or E(v5) series

Workaround

Pre-requisite for this is accelerated networking which is supported on CentOS 7.4 or later. Currently BIG-IP uses CentOS 7.3

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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