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SnapMirror fails with Volume access error (Too many open files in system)

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 8
  • ONTAP 9
  • SnapMirror

Issue

SnapMirror operations such as update or initialize might fail with the following error:

Last TransferError: Failed to setup transfer. (Volume access error (Too many open files in system))

Media Errors showing in EMS LOGS :

[?] Thu Oct 19 03:29:33 MDT [Node: disk_server_0: disk.ioMediumError:warning]: Medium error on disk 0a.00.23: op 0x88:00000001cbe19c00:00000200 sector 7715528079 SCSI:medium error - Unrecovered read error - If the disk is in a RAID group, the subsystem will attempt to reconstruct unreadable data (3 11 0 0) (232) Disk 0a.00.23 Shelf 0 Bay 23 [NETAPP   X477_WVRDX04TA07 NA01] S/N [    WMC1F0E0EHLU]

 

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