Bug ID 591857: 10-core vCMP guest with ASM may not pass traffic

Last Modified: Nov 07, 2022

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP ASM(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

Fixed In:
11.6.0 HF7

Opened: May 07, 2016

Severity: 1-Blocking

Symptoms

The TMM plugin manager does not expect/support an ASM guest configuration of 10 cores, thus its calculations as to the number of devices required and numbering does not match the existing number of threads/devices.

Impact

System may not start or may exhibit intermittent failures.

Conditions

11.6.0 HF6 ASM provisioned on a vCMP guest 10 CPU cores allocated to an ASM guest

Workaround

Change the number of cores on the ASM guest to use either 8 CPU cores or 12 CPU cores.

Fix Information

This issue was partially fixed in 11.6.0 HF6, but the tmplugin RPM was incorrect. This fix includes the proper RPM.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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