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FlexGroup volume status displays as Mixed after node takeover

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Applies to

  • FAS8200
  • ONTAP 9
  • DS460C disk shelf
  • FlexGroup

Issue

  • After a node takeover event, FlexGroup volume became inaccessible and status displayed as Mixed
  • sysconfig -a and sysconfig -r showed 12 disks in shelf 22, drawer 2 as missing
  • RAID group/aggr1/plex0/rg0 had four failed disks, exceeding RAID-TEC redundancy
Sep 12 2025 15:21:37 [node-01:cf.multidisk.fatalProblem:error]: Node encountered a multidisk error or other fatal error while waiting to be taken over. aggr1: raidvolfsm, fatal multi-disk error..

Aggregate aggr1 (failed, raid_tec, partial, fast zeroed) (block checksums)
  Plex /aggr1/plex0 (offline, failed, inactive)
    RAID group /aggr1/plex0/rg0 (partial, block checksums)

      RAID Disk     Device  HA  SHELF BAY CHAN Pool Type  RPM  Used (MB/blks)    Phys (MB/blks)
      ---------          ------      ------------- ---- ---- ---- ----- --------------    --------------
      tparity          FAILED                N/A                        9324290/ -
      dparity          0a.10.14             0a    10  14  SA:A   0  FSAS  7200 9324290/19096145920 9342976/19134414848 (fast zeroed)
      parity            0c.21.13             0c    21  13  SA:A   0  FSAS  7200 9324290/19096145920 9342976/19134414848 (fast zeroed)
      data              0a.11.27             0a    11  27  SA:A   0  FSAS  7200 9324290/19096145920 9342976/19134414848 (fast zeroed)
      data              0c.20.14             0c    20  14  SA:A   0  FSAS  7200 9324290/19096145920 9342976/19134414848 (fast zeroed)
      data              0d.13.13             0d    13  13  SA:B   0  FSAS  7200 9324290/19096145920 9342976/19134414848 (fast zeroed)
      data              0d.12.14             0d    12  14  SA:B   0  FSAS  7200 9324290/19096145920 9342976/19134414848 (fast zeroed)
      data FAILED                N/A                        9324290/ -
      data              0a.10.15             0a    10  15  SA:A   0  FSAS  7200 9324290/19096145920 9342976/19134414848 (fast zeroed)
      data              0b.21.14             0b    21  14  SA:B   0  FSAS  7200 9324290/19096145920 9342976/19134414848 (fast zeroed)
      data              0c.20.15             0c    20  15  SA:A   0  FSAS  7200 9324290/19096145920 9342976/19134414848 (fast zeroed)
      data              0d.13.14             0d    13  14  SA:B   0  FSAS  7200 9324290/19096145920 9342976/19134414848 (fast zeroed)
      data              0d.12.15             0d    12  15  SA:B   0  FSAS  7200 9324290/19096145920 9342976/19134414848 (fast zeroed)
      data FAILED                N/A                        9324290/ -
      data              0a.10.16             0a    10  16  SA:A   0  FSAS  7200 9324290/19096145920 9342976/19134414848 (fast zeroed)
      data              0c.21.15             0c    21  15  SA:A   0  FSAS  7200 9324290/19096145920 9342976/19134414848 (fast zeroed)
      data              0c.20.16             0c    20  16  SA:A   0  FSAS  7200 9324290/19096145920 9342976/19134414848 (fast zeroed)
      data              0d.13.15             0d    13  15  SA:B   0  FSAS  7200 9324290/19096145920 9342976/19134414848 (fast zeroed)
      data              0d.12.16             0d    12  16  SA:B   0  FSAS  7200 9324290/19096145920 9342976/19134414848 (fast zeroed)
      data FAILED                N/A                        9324290/ -
      data              0a.10.17             0a    10  17  SA:A   0  FSAS  7200 9324290/19096145920 9342976/19134414848 (fast zeroed)
      data              0b.21.16             0b    21  16  SA:B   0  FSAS  7200 9324290/19096145920 9342976/19134414848 (fast zeroed)
      data              0c.20.17             0c    20  17  SA:A   0  FSAS  7200 9324290/19096145920 9342976/19134414848 (fast zeroed)

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