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Does switchover require clients to reconnect?

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • MetroCluster

Answer

  • For NFS and SAN, a reconnection of the client is not needed after switchover.
  • For SMB, switchover is disruptive to all SMB applications and clients, including SMB 3.0 and SMB CA. 
  • This applies to all MetroCluster architectures.

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