Bug ID 498551: SPVA is not virtualized, VCMP guests must use software DoS protection

Last Modified: Jul 12, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
15.1.0, 15.0.0, 14.1.2, 14.1.0, 14.0.0, 13.1.3, 13.1.1, 13.1.0, 13.0.1, 13.0.0, 12.1.5, 12.1.4, 12.1.3, 12.1.2, 12.1.1, 12.1.0, 12.0.0

Opened: Dec 26, 2014

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

Since the sPVA is not virtualized in hardware (i.e. there is not one logical instance of the sPVA per PDE), hardware vCMP support will not occur.

Impact

Software DoS protection, which is not as fast.

Conditions

VCMP guests on a hardware platform with sPVA.

Workaround

None

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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