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

Last Modified: Aug 19, 2026

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.6.0, 11.6.0 hf1, 11.6.0 hf2, 11.6.0 hf3, 11.6.0 hf4, 11.6.0 hf5, 11.6.0 hf6, 11.6.0 hf7, 11.6.0 hf8, 11.6.1, 11.6.1 hf1, 11.6.1 hf2, 11.6.2, 11.6.2 hf1, 11.6.3, 11.6.3.1, 11.6.3.2, 11.6.3.3, 11.6.3.4, 11.6.4, 11.6.5, 11.6.5.1, 11.6.5.2, 11.6.5.3

Fixed In:
12.0.0

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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