SMB I/O interruption during ONTAP upgrade without CA
Applies to
- ONTAP 9
- SMB /CIFS
- Non‑Continuous Availability (non‑CA) SMB shares
Issue
- SMB-mounted volumes experience I/O interruption during ONTAP upgrade
- Some Linux VMs show:
- Short I/O pause
- Permanent write stop in workload tool (vdbench)
- Only a subset of SMB clients is impacted
- Impact timing differs between VMs
