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Is a NetApp SolidFire/HCI cluster affected by a switch connectivity outage

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  • NetApp SolidFire
  • NetApp Element software
  • NetApp Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure (HCI)

Answer

Yes, the loss of communication with the switches is very dangerous to the cluster and would cause a full system outage and this could trigger data loss if the drives start to resync

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