Bug ID 1555457: System controller failover may take up to 60 seconds

Last Modified: Apr 28, 2025

Affected Product(s):
F5OS Velos(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
F5OS-C 1.6.0, F5OS-C 1.6.1, F5OS-C 1.6.2

Fixed In:
F5OS-C 1.8.0

Opened: Mar 05, 2024

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

During an HA failover of system controllers, it was observed that an system controller failover may take up to one minute.

Impact

A delay in system controller switchover negatively impacts system controller LACP (LACPD will only send PDUs from the active SC). This can cause problems with tenant HA, which sends HA to keep alive messages over the system controller control plane network.

Conditions

System controllers failovers that are initiated by termination/restart of the vcc-confd container on the currently active system controller.

Workaround

Execute the system redundancy go-standby command to perform an HA switchover prior to rebooting the active system controller.

Fix Information

During an system controller failover initiated by rebooting the active system controller, it takes 3 to 5 seconds for the ConfD Active role to change to the other system controller.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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