Bug ID 626939: Heartbeat may be unavailable when viewing very large config via vconsole/serial console on bladed systems

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.5.0, 11.5.1, 11.5.2, 11.5.3, 11.5.4, 11.5.5, 11.5.6, 11.5.7, 11.5.8, 11.5.9, 11.5.10, 11.6.0, 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

Opened: Nov 04, 2016

Severity: 4-Minor

Symptoms

In a bladed vCMP system with guests spanning several blades, there is an issue when concatenating output from applications via blade console/virtual console. The timing issue is presumably that if the host is not processing fast enough to process the data sent by a guest application to the virtual console the host will suffer high load, causing the primary blade to clockadvance, miss its heartbeat, and be removed from the cluster.

Impact

Blade may stop working after executing the command.

Conditions

-- In a large configuration (for example, 55 virtual servers with corresponding pools, persistence profiles, and iRules). -- Run the following tmsh command: tmsh show ltm virtual detail

Workaround

Upgrading hypervisor to 12.1.1 or later resolves the issue.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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