Bug ID 743810: AWS: Disk resizing in m5/c5 instances fails silently.

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP MA-VE(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
13.1.0.8, 13.1.1, 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

Fixed In:
14.1.0, 13.1.1.2

Opened: Sep 12, 2018

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

Resizing the disk in an m5/c5 instance in AWS has no impact on the disk size, and this operation fails silently.

Impact

Disk resizing fails; administrators cannot grow the instance disk in response to their requirements and instance utilization post-deployment.

Conditions

BIG-IP system deployed in AWS with m5/c5 instance type that uses NVME disks instead of the usual native paravirt disks.

Workaround

There is no workaround.

Fix Information

AWS: Disk resizing now works as expected.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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