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LIF migration fails during ANDU using the batch method

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9.14.1P4
  • ONTAP 9.13.1P8
  • ONTAP 9.12.1P2 to 9.12.1P11
  • ONTAP 9.11.1P9
  • ONTAP 9.10.1P12
  • ONTAP 9.9.1P3 to 9.9.1P15
  • ONTAP 9.8 to 9.8P20
  • ONTAP 9.7P22
  • Automated Nondisruptive Upgrade (ANDU) 
  • Batch Method

Issue

  • During an ANDU ONTAP upgrade a data LIF (Logical interface) migration fails causing the upgrade process to pause.
  • When a node takes over its partner, the partner's LIFs migrate according to network interface failover target rules.
  • In this scenario, since the partner was not part of the data LIF failover target, it tried to fail over to another node in the cluster.
    • The LIF migration fails since the target node was not available as it was going through the upgrade process.

Example:

cluster1::> net int show -vserver test -lif lif4 -failover
  (network interface show)
         Logical         Home                  Failover        Failover
Vserver  Interface       Node:Port             Policy          Group
-------- --------------- --------------------- --------------- ---------------
svm1
         lif4       cluster1-01:e0c        system-defined  test
                         Failover Targets: node-04:a0a-105, node-01:a0a-105

::> cluster image show-update-progress
                                           Estimated         Elapsed    
-------------------- ----------------- --------------- ---------------  
Pre-update checks    completed                00:10:00        00:02:09
Data ONTAP updates   paused-on-error          02:34:00        02:59:26  

Details:    

Node name            Status            Status Description    
-------------------- ----------------- --------------------------------------     
node-01            waiting
node-02            completed
node-03            waiting                                                           
node-04            failed            Error: Failed to migrate data LIFs              
                                       from node "node-04".                             
                                       Action: Migrate all of the data LIFs           
                                       migrate -vserver <vserver-name> -lif
                                       <data-lif-name> -dest-node node-03" command.
node-05           waiting
node-06           completed
node-07           waiting     
           
Status: Paused-An error occurred in "Data ONTAP updates" phase.The update cannot continue until the error has been resolved.

Event logs\EMS:

Thu Apr 01 16:01:03 -0700 [node-02: upgrademgr: upgrademgr.update.pausedErr:error]: The automated update of the 
cluster has been paused due to the following reason:
Node "node-03": Error: {Failed to migrate data LIFs from node "node-04".}, 
Action: {Migrate each of the data LIFs using the "network interface migrate
 -vserver  -lif  -dest-node node-03" command.}.

 

 

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