Upgrade of AWS CVO 9.6 or later from Cloud Manager fails with boot logs showing para virtualized network interfaces
Applies to
- Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO)
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- XEN based AWS instances (R4 instance types)
- Single root Input Output Virtualization (SR-IOV)
- Elastic Network Adapter (ENA)
Issue
Upgrade of AWS CVO 9.6 or later from Cloud Manager fails with boot logs showing presence of para virtualized network interfaces , the support of which stopped in ONTAP
Example:
xn - shows para virtualized network devices which is not supported from ONTAP 9.6 onwards and CVO fails to boot.
Booting [x86_64/freebsd/image2/kernel]... NetApp Data ONTAP 9.7P7 at device/vif/0xn device e0a is attached at device/vif/1xn device e0b is attached at device/vif/2xn device e0c is attached at device/vif/3xn device e0d is attached