ONTAP is unable to connect to GCP Object-Store causing access issues
Applies to
- ONTAP 9
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Issue
- The end users will not be able to access shares/exports and will be in an outage
- If you look in EMS/event viewer you will see the below error:
object.store.unavailable: Unable to connect to the object store "Object_Name" from node xxx. Reason: Operation Timedout
- When trying to connect or start a profiler against object store we get error:
Storage aggregate object-store profiler start -node <node from error> -object-store-name <Object_Name>
Reason: Cannot verify the certificate given by the object store server. It is possible that the certificate has not been installed on the cluster.