Bug ID 621242: Reserve enough space in the image for future upgrades.

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP MA-VE(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
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, 11.6.1, 11.6.2, 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:
12.1.2, 11.6.1 HF2, 11.5.4 HF3

Opened: Oct 07, 2016

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

Increased the reserved free space in VM image from 15% to 30% to accommodate upgrades to future versions. Each next version tends to be bigger and require more disk space to install. The increased reserved space will allow upgrading to at least next 2 versions.

Impact

Extends the disk image to reserve more disk space for upgrades.

Conditions

VE in local hypervisors and VE in the Cloud (AWS, Azure).

Workaround

N/A

Fix Information

Increased the reserved free space on VE images.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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