Bug ID 472767: Adding slots to running guests with host-iso can become stuck

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP vCMP(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
11.5.1 HF1, 11.5.1 HF2, 11.5.1 HF3, 11.5.1 HF4, 11.5.1 HF5, 11.5.1 HF6, 11.5.1 HF7, 11.5.1 HF8, 11.5.1 HF9, 11.5.1 HF10, 11.5.1 HF11, 11.5.2 HF1, 11.5.3 HF1, 11.5.3 HF2, 11.5.4 HF1, 11.5.4 HF2, 11.5.4 HF3, 11.5.4 HF4, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2

Fixed In:
12.0.0, 11.6.0 HF2

Opened: Jul 23, 2014

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

An added guest slot continually waits for a product image

Impact

additional guest slots will remain down until the installation image source is corrected

Conditions

the guest is running a version provided by a block-device-image or block-device-hotfix the guest is not running the deployed version of software there are no local copies of the iso in /shared/images on the guests

Workaround

copy each guest's running version's iso into /shared/images of each guest cluster and wait for the iso to sync to all members before inserting a new blade when running 11.6.0

Fix Information

Adding slots to running guests with host-iso no longer becomes stuck.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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