ONTAP Select: 4-node ONTAP Select cluster loses access to HA mailboxes after 9.11.1 to 9.13.1 upgrade
Applies to
- ONTAP Select (OTS)
- ONTAP 9.13.1
- VMware ESXi version 7.0.3 and higher
Issue
- When 4 Nodes cluster upgrade to 9.13.1, the command
storage failover show
results with errorMailbox disks are not healthy
for nodes 1 and 2. - Configuration file
/var/etc/ctl.conf
that configures the LUNs that the iSCSI target presents, looses the configuration for the device paths to the disks. - After upgrade to 9.13.1, differences in GEOM device naming scheme seen in
ctl.conf
file. - GEOM device naming scheme has changed for FreeBSD disk slices.
- The GEOM name for disk slice use to be
ada2s5
in 9.11.1 now isada2s1+00000001
in 9.13.1.