Bug ID 870389: Increase size of /var logical volume to 1.5 GiB for LTM-only VE images

Last Modified: May 29, 2024

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

Fixed In:
16.0.0, 15.1.0.2, 14.1.2.5

Opened: Jan 18, 2020

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

The /var logical volume size of 950 MiB for LTM-only BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE) images may be too small for some deployments. This can result in result in loss of SSH access.

Impact

Complex declarative onboarding configurations may fill the /var logical volume. You are locked out because of the too-small volume.

Conditions

This applies to deployments that use declarative onboarding for configuration.

Workaround

The workaround is to manually extend the /var logical volume. For more information, see K14952: Extending disk space on BIG-IP VE :: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K14952.

Fix Information

The size of the /var logical volume was increased from 950 MiB to 1.5 GiB for LTM-only VE images.

Behavior Change

The size of the /var logical volume was increased from 950MiB to 1.5GiB for LTM-only Virtual Edition images.

Guides & references

K10134038: F5 Bug Tracker Filter Names and Tips