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Volume creation fails with "volume busy"

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • Volume creation

Issue

Creation of a volume fails with the following message:

Cluster01::> vol create -vserver svm1 -volume vol1 -aggregate aggr1 -size 100GB -state online -security-style ntfs

[Job 25539] Job failed:

Failed to create the volume on node "Cluster01-01". Reason: Volume busy. This may leave the volume record in the Volume Location Database.

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