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ONTAP Tools for vSphere 10 (OTV) can't communicate with storage after Cluster Mgmt LIF IP change

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Applies to

OTV 10.x

Description

  • The ONTAP cluster's Mgmt LIF IP address has been changed and now the locally scoped storage system in OTV 10 cannot communicate with storage
  • There is no option in the OTV plugin/Storage Backends/Modify Storage Backend to change the Mgmt LIFs IP Address
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  • Attempting to remove storage from the OTV plugin/Storage Backends results in the following error
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Remove storage backend

Error while deleting storage backend: Traditonal Datastore(s) exists
for SVM associated with this storagebackend

Are you sure you want to remove storage backend 'xxxxx'?
Ensure that the storage backend does not have any datastores

 

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