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What is the impact to ONTAP when all AD servers will be shutdown

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • All systems infrastructure, services, applications, etc. that relay on AD

Answer

In a situation that all AD servers will be shutdown, the possible impacts are:

  • Data access unavailability
  • Management access unavailability (Cached mechanisms/other authentication/other may mitigate it)
  • Performance
  • Security
  • Possible System crashes on applications depending on access to data or to the AD
  • Other/unpredictable