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ONTAP Select storage failover shows: Mailbox disks are not healthy

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Applies to

  • ONTAP Select
  • Ontap Select Deploy
  • Takeover/Giveback
  • Mailbox disks

Issue

  • Takeover is not possible, an error is shown for the mailbox disks:
::*> storage failover show
Takeover
Node           Partner        Possible State Description
-------------- -------------- -------- -------------------------------------
node-01        node-02        false    Connected to node-02, Takeover
                                       is not possible: Mailbox disks are not healthy
node-02        node-01        false    Connected to node-01, Takeover
                                       is not possible: Mailbox disks are not healthy
2 entries were displayed.
 
  • Mediator Mailbox disks are in container broken instead of as expected in container mailbox:

::*> disk show
                     Usable           Disk    Container   Container
Disk                   Size Shelf Bay Type    Type        Name          Owner
---------------- ---------- ----- --- ------- ----------- ---------     --------
NET-1.1             66.93GB     -   - VMDISK  aggregate   node_01_root  node-01
NET-1.2              1.48TB     -   - VMDISK  aggregate   node_01_SAS01 node-01
NET-1.3              1.48TB     -   - VMDISK  aggregate   node_01_SAS01 node-01
NET-1.4             66.93GB     -   - VMDISK  aggregate   node_02_ROOT  node-02
NET-1.6              1007GB     -   - VMDISK  aggregate   node_01_SAS01 node-01
NET-1.7              1.67TB     -   - VMDISK  aggregate   node_01_SAS01 node-01
NET-2.1                   -     -   - VMDISK  broken      -             node-01
NET-2.2                   -     -   - VMDISK  broken      -             node-02
NET-3.1             66.93GB     -   - VMDISK  aggregate   node_02_ROOT  node-02
NET-3.2              1.48TB     -   - VMDISK  aggregate   node_01_SAS01 node-01
NET-3.3              1.48TB     -   - VMDISK  aggregate   node_01_SAS01 node-01
NET-3.4             66.93GB     -   - VMDISK  aggregate   node_01_root  node-01
NET-3.6              1007GB     -   - VMDISK  aggregate   node_01_SAS01 node-01
NET-3.7              1.67TB     -   - VMDISK  aggregate   node_01_SAS01 node-01
14 entries were displayed.

  • Mailbox iSCSI connections to ONTAP Select Deploy IP (in the example 10.0.0.1) show as up/up:
::*> storage iscsi-initiator show
Status
Node    Type     Label    Target Portal        Target Name                      Admin/Op
----    ----     -------- ------------------   -------------------------------- --------
node-01 mailbox  f7fa0d14-f4c5-11e9-8715-005056bc73cb-mailbox
                          10.0.0.1             iqn.2012-05.local:mailbox.target.select000002
                                                                                up/up
        partner  f7faeaa4-f4c5-11e9-8715-005056bc73cb-partner
                          169.254.23.163:65200 iqn.2012-06.com.bsdctl:target0   up/up
        partner2 f7faeaa4-f4c5-11e9-8715-005056bc73cb-partner2
                          169.254.23.163:65200 iqn.2012-06.com.bsdctl:target0   up/up
node-02 mailbox  f7faeaa4-f4c5-11e9-8715-005056bc73cb-mailbox
                          10.0.0.1             iqn.2012-05.local:mailbox.target.select000002
                                                                                up/up
        partner  f7fa0d14-f4c5-11e9-8715-005056bc73cb-partner
                          169.254.23.12:65200  iqn.2012-06.com.bsdctl:target0   up/up
        partner  2f7fa0d14-f4c5-11e9-8715-005056bc73cb-partner2
                          169.254.23.12:65200  iqn.2012-06.com.bsdctl:target0   up/up
6 entries were displayed.

 

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