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Many drives marked for prefail with badlabelversion during ONTAP upgrade

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Applies to

  • ONTAP upgrade
  • FAS/AFF Systems

Issue

  • Power cycle, unexpected reboot or panic of nodes with different ONTAP versions running
    • Example: during an ANDU (Automatic Non-Disruptive Upgrade) 
    • Unplanned power cycle of a node
    • Unexpected reboot of a node
    • Panic of a node 
  • In ONTAP EMS logs, bad label messages are seen on disks:

raid.assim.disk.badlabelversion:alert]: Disk 0b.00.17P3 Shelf 0 Bay 17 [NETAPP   X371_S1643960ATE NA55] S/N [xxxxxx] UID [xxxxxx] has  RAID label with version (17), which is not within the currently supported range (5 - 16).

  • Drives marked as prefailed after ONTAP upgrade completes:

config_thread: raid.disk.predictiveFailure:error]: Disk 0b.00.17 Shelf 0 Bay 17 [NETAPP   X371_S1643960ATE NA55] S/N [S3SENF0KC10788] UID [xxxxxx] reported a predictive failure and it is prefailed; it will be copied to a spare and failed

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