Bug ID 959985: Update VMware hardware version templates for BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE) from v10 to v13 in order to support VMs deployed in more versions of vSphere ESXi.

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
16.1.0, 16.1.1, 16.1.2, 16.1.2.1

Fixed In:
17.0.0, 16.1.2.2, 15.1.6.1

Opened: Oct 28, 2020

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

Virtual hardware version setting for BIG-IP VE VMware templates (virtualHW.version) are set to version 10 and must change to version 13, so more versions of vSphere ESXi (for example, ESXi v6.0 and later) can support deploying BIG-IP Virtual Edition.

Impact

BIG-IP Virtual Edition VMware hardware templates result in performance issues and deployment errors/failures.

Conditions

Using BIG-IP Virtual Edition VMware hardware templates set to v10 running in most, later versions of VMware ESXi.

Workaround

None

Fix Information

Changed the BIG-IP Virtual Edition VMware hardware template version setting (virtualHW.version) to 13 and deployed them successfully using later versions of VMware ESXi.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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