Last Modified: Apr 01, 2025
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP LTM
Known Affected Versions:
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, 15.1.10.4, 15.1.10.5, 15.1.10.6, 16.0.0, 16.0.0.1, 16.0.1, 16.0.1.1, 16.0.1.2, 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, 17.1.1.3, 17.1.1.4, 17.1.2, 17.1.2.1
Fixed In:
17.5.0
Opened: May 21, 2020 Severity: 3-Major
Hyper-V Standalone and Azure utilizes the sock driver and has no support for underlying VMBUS devices nor SR-IOV, which degrades system performance.
- There is a lack of targeted driver support for VMBUS devices which leads to lack of high performance.
BIG-IP VE is deployed in Hyper-V standalone or Azure environment using Mellanox Connect-X 5 NICs with accelerated networking switched on for the NICs.
None
VE on Hyper-V Standalone and Azure makes use of xnet-DPDK driver for VMBUS devices with accelerated networking (SR-IOV) support.