7MTT aborts transfer while creating baseline with Error "Transfer failed"
Applies to
- 7-Mode Transition Tool (7MTT)
- Copy Based Transition (CBT)
- ONTAP 9
- Clustered Data ONTAP 8
- Data ONTAP 8 in 7-Mode
- Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) 9000
Issue
- 7MTT aborts transfer while creating baseline with Error
Transfer failed
- Clustered Data ONTAP / ONTAP 9 EMS log:
10/27/2020 16:35:44 cluster1-n1 NOTICE recover.abort.ROOLR: The abort event, snapmirror: Cannot Init NTM, aborting
10/27/2020 16:35:44 cluster1-n1 ERROR replication.dst.err: SnapMirror: destination transfer from 7mode_hostname:volume to cluster_volume : replication transfer failed to complete.
10/27/2020 16:35:45 cluster1-n1 ERROR smc.snapmir.init.fail: Initialize from source volume '7mode_hostname:volume' to destination volume 'cluster_SVM_hostname:volume' failed with error 'Transfer failed.'. Relationship UUID '1a5b1234-1bcd-12c3-efgh-123456789101'.
- Interfaces configured with MTU 9000, however network ping with packet size larger than 1500 and Do-Not-Fragment (DF) bit enabled fails:
::> network ping -lif-owner node_name -lif intercluster_lif -destination 7Mode_Data_copy_IP -packet-size 9000 -disallow-fragmentation true -show-detail true -record-route true -count 10
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