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System Manager and CLI report "Storage failover is disabled"

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • System Manager

Issue

  • System Manager reports Storage failover is disabled
  • Takeover or giveback fails:

::> storage failover giveback -ofnode node-01 -override-vetoes true
Error: command failed: Storage failover must be enabled before the giveback is attempted.


 

::> storage failover show
                              Takeover
Node           Partner        Possible State Description
-------------- -------------- -------- -------------------------------------
node-01        node-02        false    Connected to node-02, Takeover
                                       is not possible: Storage failover is
                                       disabled
node-02        node-01        false    Connected to node-01, Giveback
                                       of one or more SFO aggregates failed,
                                       Takeover is not possible: Storage
                                       failover is disabled

 

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