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Unequal Number of Disks initialized for A90 with ADP

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  • NetApp AFF-A90
  • ONTAP 9

Issue

During system initialization of an AFF-A90 with 20 internal disks installed, the following warning message appears:
 
mgr.boot.unequalDist: Warning: Unequal number of disks will be used for auto-partitioning of the root aggregate on the local system and HA partner. The local system will use 6 disks but the HA partner will use 14 disks. To correct this situation, boot both controllers into maintenance mode and remove the ownership of all disks.

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