MLAG on Mellanox switch reports Failed to grow the pool size err -12
Applies to
- Mellanox SN2010
- ONYX 3.8.2008 and lower
- MLAG enabled
Issue
- When changing IP addresses, the new address becomes intermittently unavailable
- Some virtual machines(VMs) are not able to be pinged or reached from devices within same LAN or connect to external network.
- When these occurs, there may be associated errors in the switch logs (as generated by
sysdump
) along these lines:
HCI-MLX2 mlagd[4799]: TID 140503404242688: [mlagd.NOTICE]: [MLAG_MAC_SYNC_PEER_MANAGER.NOTICE] Need to mark the MACs as DENY, cnt:0 < record_num:67
HCI-MLX2 mlagd[4799]: TID 140503404242688: [mlagd.NOTICE]: [MLAG_MAC_SYNC_PEER_MANAGER.NOTICE] Failed to grow the pool size, err -12