Trying to upgrade vCMP sessiong but getting Disk limit exceeded errors like below

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login: Aug 14 10:38:50 slot1/mifnt1slbtst01 emerg load_config_files: "/usr/bin/tmsh -n -g load sys config partitions all " - failed. -- 01071008:3: Provisioning failed with error 1 - 'Disk limit exceeded. 16188 MB are required to provision these modules, but only 14368 MB are available.' . Unexpected Error: Loading configuration process failed

In reviewing I thought I needed to add more cores so I logged into the Viprion and changed the state of the vCMP session to Disable and then altered the vCMP Cores from 2 to 4 and tried again..  same issue, same errors.

Next, noticed we have three images on HD1 (System - Disk Management - HD1) so removed the one not in the mix so just kept

• HD1.1 - OLD (Current Image)
• HD1.2 - empty (just deleting the 12.0.0 unused image we went from 10GB free to 32GB free)
• HD1.3 - NEW (Future Image)

Also tried to remove the unused files

• avrdata
• afmdata

But first had to unprovision APM, delete the files and reprovision APM

Just a note about removing the avrdata and afmdata

I did unprovision APM to unlock those files, then deleted them and then reprovisioned APM.  Then I noticed files came back.

So here are the steps I did which worked

1. Unprovision APM
2. delete avrdata, afmdata
3. reboot chassis (System - Configuration - Device)
4. Review no avrdata, no afmdata, APM is still not provisioned
5. Provision APM
6. reboot chassis (System - Configuration - Device)
7. You are Good to Go

This worked for me, probably overkill

Upgraded and everything looked good but when I tried to click on System - Configuraiton I received the following error

"General database error retrieving information" means corrupt LTM database

So since the vCMP Guest is on Slot1, rebooted slot 1 and that made the vCMP Guest active on Slot2

Tested System - Configuration again and no error, so then reboo

vconsole <guest> <slot number>

Here is what I did now that you know the command

vconsole mifnt1slbtst01 1
touch /service/mcpd/forceload
reboot

Then did the same thing but replaced 1 with 2

REF: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K44259537