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"Takeover is not possible: Local node missing partner disks" drive in maintenance

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • High availability (HA)
  • Drive Maintenance / Testing 

Issue

  • ONTAP reports takeover not possible: 

::>Storage failover show
                              Takeover
Node           Partner        Possible State Description
-------------- -------------- -------- -------------------------------------
Node B         Node A         true     Connected to Node A
Node A         Node B         false    Connected to Node B, Takeover is not
                                      possible: Local node missing partner
                                       disks

  • Disk is failed with Failed-Unsupported status from node A.

::>node run -node <node A> sysconfig -v

10.20: NETAPP   X376_HLBRE08TA07 NA01   0.0GB 0B/sect (Failed-Unsupported)

  • Node B shows the effected disk as Failed

::>node run -node <node B> sysconfig -v

10.20: NETAPP   X376_HLBRE08TA07 NA01 7486.1GB 520B/sect (<serial of disk>) (Failed)

  • The effected disk is moved to maintenance/testing by the owner node and the HA partner is reporting missing partner disks.
  • Only the partner node might report the disk as "Not available" in sysconfig -a

21.22: 0.0GB 0B/sect (Not available.)

 

 

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