CRC Errors seen on data ports after a head upgrade
Applies to
- AFF systems
- FAS systems
- Head Upgrade (aka headswap)
- CRC Errors on Data ports
- ONTAP 9
Issue
- After head upgrade incremental CRC Errors are shown on Network Interface Card (NIC) RECEIVE of ifstat:
::>node run -node node_name ifstat
-- interface e5a (1 day, 2 hours, 8 minutes, 13 seconds) -- RECEIVE Total frames: 1204m | Frames/second: 12804 | Total bytes: 2921g Bytes/second: 31043k | Total errors: 1012 | Errors/minute: 1 Total discards: 8927k | Discards/minute: 5693 | Multi/broadcast: 147k Non-primary u/c: 0 | CRC errors: 780 | Long frames: 1 -- interface e5b (1 day, 2 hours, 8 minutes, 10 seconds) -- RECEIVE Total frames: 1609m | Frames/second: 17101 | Total bytes: 3317g Bytes/second: 35263k | Total errors: 965 | Errors/minute: 1 Total discards: 0 | Discards/minute: 0 | Multi/broadcast: 187k Non-primary u/c: 0 | CRC errors: 832 | Long frames: 0
- Reviewed Switch logs and determined no CRC errors seen
- All Hardware (cabling, SFP ) were checked