We use a 6030 series with software disk ownership. According to the documentation below this option does not apply to us. Is that right?
Please note that this was a intermittent Loop A failure and not a complete failure. So Loop A kept going up/down and we had no failover during this period.
Suresh
From: Coatney, Sue [mailto:Sue.Coatney@netapp.com] Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 2:02 PM To: LOhit; Suresh Rajagopalan Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: Loop A failure not triggering failover
The cf.takeover.on_disk_shelf_miscompare option needs to be turned on for takeover to happen when a disk shelf mis-compare happens.
Sue Coatney
High Availability Team
NetApp
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From: LOhit [mailto:lohit.b@gmail.com] Sent: Thu 1/21/2010 11:09 PM To: Suresh Rajagopalan Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: Loop A failure not triggering failover
Hi Suresh,
I think this should have happened, when the loop failed. (Taken from ONTAP docs)
How disk shelf comparison takeover works
Describes the way a node uses disk shelf comparison with its partner node to determine if it is impaired.
When communication between nodes is first established through the cluster interconnect adapters, the nodes exchange a list of disk shelves that are visible on the A and B loops of each node. If, later, a system sees that the B loop disk shelf count on its partner is greater than its local A loop disk shelf count, the system concludes that it is impaired and prompts its partner to initiate a takeover.
Note: Disk shelf comparison does not function for active/active configurations using software-based disk ownership, or for fabric-attached MetroClusters.
options cf.takeover.detection.seconds number_of_seconds (But, I think this affects only cluster interconnect timeouts not the loop failure)
The valid values for number_of_seconds are 10 through 180; the default is 15.
Attention: If the specified time is less than 15 seconds, unnecessary takeovers can occur, and a core might not be generated for some system panics. Use caution when assigning a takeover time of less than 15 seconds.
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Suresh Rajagopalan SRajagopalan@williamoneil.com wrote:
We have a active/active setup on our filers,standard loop A/loop B cabling (no multipath HA).
We had a recent event with our filers where intermittent failure of loop A did not trigger a failover to the partner. I'd like to know why that is the case. According to the Netapp failover cause and effect document at
http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/ontap/rel727/html/ontap/cluster /failing_over/reference/r_oc_fo_failover-events.html
This event should have caused a failover.
The log message from the filer on loop A was:
Sun Jan 17 15:41:56 PST [netapp1: fci.link.break:error]: Link break detected on Fibre Channel adapter 0e.
Is there a option or timeout setting to make the failover happen
Thanks
Suresh