E-Series unscheduled reboot with MPIO and DA error
Applies to
- NetApp E-Series
- SANtricity OS 11.50.2 or below
- Volumes created between 11.40.2 and 11.50.2 with Data Assurance (DA) feature
- Using Storage Accelerator Features: Microsoft ODX or VMware VAAI
Issue
- Storage-assisted copy operations (Windows ODX or VMware VAAI) may result in false DA errors and/or controller reboot
- Controller report multipath (MPIO) error
- Major Event Log (MEL) may report the following:
Data assurance mismatch detected - probable cause is cached data
Host multipath driver configuration error detected
Isolation of drive causing redundancy mismatch
- Recovery Guru may report
Failure Entry 1: NON_PREFERRED_PATH-Recovery Failure Type Code: 10