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Aggregate in "unknown" state error when expanding FlexGroup

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9

Issue

When trying to expand volume, we get errors similar to the following:
 

::>volume expand -vserver vs0 -volume vol1 -aggr-list aggr1,aggr2,aggr3,aggr4 -aggr-list-multiplier 1 Error: Failed to provision the volume because aggregate aggr4 is in unknown state

  • MGWD Log example:

[kern_mgwd:info:30348] internal buffer error : Memory allocation failed : creating buffer
[kern_mgwd:info:30348] fromXML: Could not parse XML. [kern_mgwd:info:30348] ems_mgwd_event_receiver - fromXML failed to get the event properties. Buffer: H<LRS><LR d="02Oct2022 22:52:17" n="node4" t="1664776337" id="1654162531/93899639" p="5" s="Ok" o="mgwd" vf="" type="0" seq="916210740" ><kern_vm_mmap_return_1        process_name="mgwd"        process_id="30348"        size="4194304"        message="VMEM limit exceeded"     limit="4294967296"        errno="12"/></LR></LRS>
[kern_mgwd:info:30348] internal buffer error : Memory allocation failed : creating buffer
[kern_mgwd:info:32706] mhost_boot: redirect log output end[kern_mgwd:info:32706] Loading mgwd at: Sun Oct  2 22:53:07 2022
[kern_mgwd:info:32706] mhost_boot: MHOST_SF: Stability start
[kern_mgwd:info:32706] 0x8205efb00: 0: INFO: SFO_Ready|Cluster_Apps: Startup stability test: waiting for this node to be in a cluster.

 

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