Last Modified: Apr 28, 2025
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP APM
Known Affected Versions:
12.1.1, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2, 12.1.3, 12.1.3.1, 13.0.0, 13.0.0 HF1, 13.0.0 HF2, 13.0.0 HF3
Fixed In:
13.1.0, 13.0.1, 12.1.3.2
Opened: Sep 13, 2016 Severity: 3-Major
When a VMware View resource is configured to use a pool as a destination, for all the connections to this pool, except the very first one, a matching virtual lookup is performed. This doesn't align with the typical BIG-IP behavior on pool connections that should go directly to the chosen pool member and not hit matching virtual servers.
If a matching virtual is not intended to pass the traffic through (e.g., a 'reject-all' virtual), those connections routed to this virtual server will fail.
If a VMware View resource is configured to connect to a pool and there is a virtual server matching some or all the IP/port values of pool members, connections to those members will go through the matching virtual server, except for the very first one.
None.
All the connections to VMWare View pool members now go directly without hitting matching BIG-IP virtual servers.