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Data outage during switched to switchless conversion

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Applies to

  • FAS8040
  • Switched cluster to 2 node switchless cluster conversion
  • ONTAP 9.7P11

Issue

 
EMS log shows following
 
[Node-A: vifmgr: vifmgr.lifsuccessfullymoved:notice]: LIF Node-A_clus1 (on virtual server 4294967293), IP address 169.254.49.239, is now hosted on node Node-A, port e0a.
[Node-A: vifmgr: vifmgr.lifmoved.linkdown:notice]: LIF Node-A_clus1 (on virtual server 4294967293), IP address 169.254.49.239, is being moved to node Node-A, port e0a.
[Node-A: mgwd: clus.net.switchlessInv:notice]: One or more cluster ports are directly wired to a cluster port on another node, but the "switchless-cluster" option is not enabled.
 
[Node-A: vifmgr: vifmgr.dbase.checkerror:alert]: VIFMgr experienced an error verifying cluster database consistency. Some LIFs might not be hosted properly as a result.
[Node-A: vifmgr: vifmgr.startup.failover.err:alert]: VIFMgr encountered errors during startup.
 
  • Then the data LIFs get removed from the physical ports they are hosted on
 
[Node-A: vifmgr: vifmgr.lifBeingRemoved:notice]: LIF Data-Vserver1-Lif1 (on virtual server 16), IP address x.x.x.x, is being removed from node Node-A, port e0e
[Node-A: vifmgr: vifmgr.lifBeingRemoved:notice]: LIF Data-Vserver1-Lif2 (on virtual server 12), IP address x.x.x.x, is being removed from node Node-A, port e0e.

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