Outage due to incorrect failover target set during configuration
Applies to
- ONTAP 9
Issue
- When a lif migrates to one of its failover targets, data access is lost even though the migration happened with no issues.
::> network interface show -lif <lif>
Logical Status Network Current Current Is
Vserver Interface Admin/Oper Address/Mask Node Port Home
----------- ---------- ---------- ------------------ ------------- ------- ----
svm1
lif1 up/up 10.XXX.XXX.XXX/24 Cluster-01
e0b false
::> network interface show -vserver <svm> -lif <lif> -failover
Logical Home Failover Failover
Vserver Interface Node:Port Policy Group
-------- --------------- --------------------- --------------- ---------------
svm1
lif1 Cluster-01:e0a system-defined Default
Failover Targets: Cluster-01:e0a,
Cluster-01:e0b,
Cluster-02:e0a,
Cluster-02:e0b,
- When reverting the lif back home, all data access is restored.
::> network interface revert -vserver <svm> -lif <lif>