ONTAP MPIO missing paths caused outage during update
Applies to
- ONTAP 9
- VMware ESXi
- Microsoft Windows Server
- FC
Issue
- During an ONTAP update host lost access to all LUNs homed on HA node
- Ports and LIFs are up and no link issues detected
- Host setup as per best practices
- Switch does not contain zoning information for LIF/port connected to it
- Host shows only paths to same single HA node, missing paths to impacted node:
~commands/esxcfg-mpath_-b.txt
naa.600a0980xyz : NETAPP Fibre Channel Disk (naa.600a0980xyz)
vmhbaA LUN:8 state:active fc Adapter: WWNN: 20:00:00:abc WWPN: 20: Target: WWNN: 20:04:00:a0:98 WWPN: 20:03:00:xyz
vmhbaB LUN:8 state:active fc Adapter: WWNN: 20:00:00:def WWPN: 20: Target: WWNN: 20:04:00:a0:98 WWPN: 20:02:00:xyz