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SnapMirror update fails randomly with CSM error: Operation referred to a non-existent session

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • SnapMirror

Issue

  • SnapMirror update randomly fails with the error message:

SnapMirror update from source volume 'SVM01:vol1' to destination volume 'svm_dst:vol2' failed with error 'Transfer failed.(Replication operation request failed from Cluster Id: xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxx, Node Id: xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxx to Cluster Id: xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxx, Node Id: xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxx due to a network error(CSM: Operation referredto a non-existent session.))'. Relationship UUID 'xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxx'.

  • IFSTAT-A indicates high Total discards counts for the destination port whichh intercluster LIF is configured

RECEIVE
 Total frames:    76084m | Frames/second:   10751  | Total bytes:       101t
 Bytes/second:    14306k | Total errors:        0  | Errors/minute:       0 
 Total discards:    890k | Discards/minute:     8  | Multi/broadcast: 97874k
 Non-primary u/c:     0  | Errored frames:      0  | Unsupported Op:      0 
 CRC errors:          0  | Runt frames:         0  | Fragment:            0 
 Long frames:         0  | Jabber:              0  | Length errors:       0 
 Alignment errors:    0  | No buffer:           0  | Xon:                 0 
 Xoff:                0  | Pause:               0  | Jumbo:               0 
 Noproto:             0  | Error symbol:        0  | Illegal symbol:      0 
 Bus overruns:        0  | Queue drops:         0  | LRO segments:        0 
 LRO bytes:           0  | LRO6 segments:       0  | LRO6 bytes:          0 
 Bad UDP cksum:       0  | Bad UDP6 cksum:      0  | Bad TCP cksum:       0 
 Bad TCP6 cksum:      0  | Mcast v6 solicit:    0  | Lagg errors:        70 
 Lacp errors:         0  | Lacp PDU errors:     0 

 

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