Background Disk Firmware Update (BDFU) stuck
Applies to
- ONTAP 9.x
Issue
- Even after enabling BDFU with the
disk option modify
command, which would show BDFU state as "on" :
cluster::*> disk option show
Node BKg. FW. Upd. Auto Copy Auto Assign Auto Assign Policy
-------- ------------- ------------ ------------- ------------------
node-01 on on on default
node-02 on on on default
2 entries were displayed.
- The disk firmware Update state would show as "off" in the
disk firmware show-update-status
output:
cluster::*> disk firmware show-update-status
Number Average Total
Update Waiting Duration Completion
Node State Download /Disk (Sec) Est. (Min) Unable to Update
--------- ------- -------- ----------- ---------- --------------------
node-02 idle 0 120 0 -
node-01 off 2 120 4 -
2 entries were displayed.
- An Update State of "off" would be expected if the BDFU was suspended through raid options of the node, however, even after turning the suspend option on and then back off it wouldn't change to "idle":
cluster-02::> node run * options raid.bdfu
Node: node-01
raid.bdfu.suspend off (value might be overwritten in takeover)
raid.bdfu.suspend.time 60 (value might be overwritten in takeover)
- As a result, the disk firmware updates on the remaining disks owned by node-01 could not complete.