Symptoms

The newer generation of instance families were not being supported for BIG IP Images

Impact

Enabling the NVMe support flag enhances disk I/O performance and ensures compatibility with modern Alibaba Cloud instance types, which utilize NVMe devices for disk exposure. This adjustment modifies the way block devices are identified and accessed at the operating system level.

Conditions

All prior versions of BIG-IP that did not have the NVMe Support flag set

Workaround

Save the image as a custom image and set the NVMe support flag to yes

Fix Information

Newer images are being published with the relevant flag turned on

Guides & references

K10134038: F5 Bug Tracker Filter Names and Tips