Bug ID 690781: VIPRION systems with B2100 or B2150 blades cannot run certain combinations of vCMP guest sizes

Last Modified: Mar 15, 2024

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP vCMP(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
11.5.1, 11.5.2, 11.5.3, 11.5.4, 11.5.5, 11.5.6, 11.5.7, 11.5.8, 11.5.9, 11.5.10, 11.6.0, 11.6.1, 11.6.2, 11.6.3, 11.6.3.1, 11.6.3.2, 11.6.3.3, 11.6.3.4, 11.6.4, 11.6.5, 11.6.5.1, 11.6.5.2, 11.6.5.3, 12.0.0, 12.0.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.0.0 HF2, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.0.0 HF3, 12.0.0 HF4, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2, 12.1.0, 12.1.1, 12.1.2, 12.1.3, 12.1.3.1, 12.1.3.2, 12.1.3.3, 12.1.3.4, 12.1.3.5, 12.1.3.6, 12.1.3.7, 12.1.4, 12.1.4.1, 12.1.5, 12.1.5.1, 12.1.5.2, 12.1.5.3, 12.1.6, 13.0.0, 13.0.0 HF1, 13.0.0 HF2, 13.0.0 HF3, 13.0.1, 13.1.0, 13.1.0.1, 13.1.0.2, 13.1.0.3, 13.1.0.4, 13.1.0.5, 13.1.0.6, 13.1.0.7, 13.1.0.8, 13.1.1, 13.1.1.2, 13.1.1.3, 13.1.1.4, 13.1.1.5, 13.1.3, 13.1.3.1, 13.1.3.2, 13.1.3.3, 13.1.3.4, 13.1.3.5, 13.1.3.6, 13.1.4, 13.1.4.1, 13.1.5, 13.1.5.1, 14.0.0, 14.0.0.1, 14.0.0.2, 14.0.0.3, 14.0.0.4, 14.0.0.5, 14.0.1, 14.0.1.1, 14.1.0, 14.1.0.1, 14.1.0.2, 14.1.0.3, 14.1.0.5, 14.1.0.6, 14.1.2, 14.1.2.1, 14.1.2.2, 14.1.2.3, 14.1.2.4, 14.1.2.5, 14.1.2.6, 14.1.2.7, 14.1.2.8, 14.1.3, 14.1.3.1, 14.1.4, 14.1.4.1, 14.1.4.2, 14.1.4.3, 14.1.4.4, 14.1.4.5, 14.1.4.6, 14.1.5, 14.1.5.1, 14.1.5.2, 14.1.5.3, 14.1.5.4, 14.1.5.6, 15.0.0, 15.0.1, 15.0.1.1, 15.0.1.2, 15.0.1.3, 15.0.1.4, 15.1.0, 15.1.0.1, 15.1.0.2, 15.1.0.3, 15.1.0.4, 15.1.0.5, 15.1.1, 15.1.2, 15.1.2.1, 15.1.3, 15.1.3.1, 15.1.4, 15.1.4.1, 15.1.5, 15.1.5.1, 15.1.6, 15.1.6.1, 15.1.7, 15.1.8, 15.1.8.1, 15.1.8.2, 15.1.9, 15.1.9.1, 15.1.10, 15.1.10.2, 15.1.10.3, 16.0.0, 16.0.0.1, 16.0.1, 16.0.1.1, 16.0.1.2, 16.1.0, 16.1.1, 16.1.2, 16.1.2.1, 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, 17.0.0, 17.0.0.1, 17.0.0.2, 17.1.0, 17.1.0.1, 17.1.0.2, 17.1.0.3, 17.1.1, 17.1.1.1, 17.1.1.2

Opened: Oct 25, 2017

Severity: 4-Minor

Symptoms

VIPRION systems equipped with B2100 or B2150 blades cannot run any more vCMP guests in addition to three 1-slot 8-core guests. So if a system has four blades, any additional guests created on the remaining blade will not be operational. Although the system allows all guests to be created and started, the ones deployed last will not work correctly. Specifically, the guests deployed last will fail to access TMM networks. Additionally, the vCMP host logs messages similar to the following example to the /var/log/ltm file: -- info bcm56xxd[13741]: 012c0016:6: FP(unit 0) Error: Group (6) no room. -- err bcm56xxd[13741]: 012c0011:3: entry create failed: SDK error No resources for operation bs_field.cpp(447) -- err bcm56xxd[13741]: 012c0011:3: geteid_qualify_egress failed: SDK error No resources for operation bs_field.cpp(2009) -- err bcm56xxd[13741]: 012c0011:3: program dest mod/port rule failed: SDK error No resources for operation bs_vtrunk.cpp(5353) -- err bcm56xxd[13741]: 012c0011:3: vdag class L4 redirect failed: SDK error No resources for operation bs_vtrunk.cpp(3261)

Impact

One or more guests do not function properly as they cannot access TMM networks. All traffic fails to pass.

Conditions

This issue occurs when the following conditions are met: -- A C2400 VIPRION chassis is equipped with four B2100 or B2150 blades. -- A vCMP configuration consisting of at least three 1-slot 8-core guests was put in place (in other words, three full-blade guests). -- One or more vCMP guests are created on the remaining VIPRION blade in the chassis.

Workaround

This issue is caused by a hardware limitation on B2100 and B2150 blades preventing this specific vCMP configuration from instantiating correctly. As a workaround, you must specify different vCMP guest sizes. For instance, you could use the following configuration: -- Four 2-slot 4-core vCMP guests instead of four 1-slot 8-core vCMP guests Although not the same, both configurations yield the same total number of TMM instances per guest.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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