failed to migrate: failed to move cluster/node-mgmt LIF.

filipsneppe — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:49:55 GMT

Hi,

I am wondering what might be causing this problem: I can move my management LIFs around to the ports that are available in the failover groups I created, except for one node management LIF on one node, which gives me an error:

na-croupt::> network interface migrate -vserver na-croupt -lif cluster_mgmt -dest-node na-croupt-01 -dest-port e0M

na-croupt::> network interface migrate -vserver na-croupt -lif cluster_mgmt -dest-node na-croupt-01 -dest-port a1a-110

na-croupt::> network interface migrate -vserver na-croupt -lif cluster_mgmt -dest-node na-croupt-02 -dest-port a2a-110

na-croupt::> network interface migrate -vserver na-croupt-01 -lif n01_mgmt -dest-node na-croupt-01 -dest-port e0M

na-croupt::> network interface migrate -vserver na-croupt-01 -lif n01_mgmt -dest-node na-croupt-01 -dest-port a1a-110

na-croupt::> network interface migrate -vserver na-croupt-01 -lif n01_mgmt -dest-node na-croupt-01 -dest-port e0M

na-croupt::> network interface migrate -vserver na-croupt-02 -lif n02_mgmt -dest-node na-croupt-02 -dest-port e0M

na-croupt::> network interface migrate -vserver na-croupt-02 -lif n02_mgmt -dest-node na-croupt-02 -dest-port a2a-110

Error: command failed: Failed to migrate interface na-croupt-02;n02_mgmt. LIF

"n02_mgmt" failed to migrate: failed to move cluster/node-mgmt LIF.

I am perfectly capable of migrating the LIF to another VLAN tagged interface on that node (although it's in the wrong VLAN, but anyway), eg.

na-croupt::> network interface migrate -vserver na-croupt-02 -lif n02_mgmt -dest-node na-croupt-02 -dest-port a2a-112

Here are some commands that describe the setup:

na-croupt::> network interface show

Logical Status Network Current Current Is

Vserver Interface Admin/Oper Address/Mask Node Port Home

----------- ---------- ---------- ------------------ ------------- ------- ----

na-croupt

cluster_mgmt up/up 10.100.10.10/24 na-croupt-02 a2a-110 false

na-croupt-01

clus1 up/up 169.254.17.227/16 na-croupt-01 e1a true

clus2 up/up 169.254.196.27/16 na-croupt-01 e2a true

n01_mgmt up/up 10.100.10.12/24 na-croupt-01 e0M true

na-croupt-02

clus1 up/up 169.254.211.115/16 na-croupt-02 e1a true

clus2 up/up 169.254.155.49/16 na-croupt-02 e2a true

n02_mgmt up/up 10.100.10.14/24 na-croupt-02 e0M true

vs1_test

vs1_cifs_n01 up/up 10.0.13.133/16 na-croupt-01 a1a-1 true

vs1_cifs_n02 up/up 10.0.13.134/16 na-croupt-02 a2a-1 true

9 entries were displayed.

na-croupt::> network interface failover-groups show

Failover

Group Node Port

------------------- ----------------- ----------

CIFS

na-croupt-01 a1a-1

na-croupt-02 a2a-1

NFS

na-croupt-01 a1a-112

na-croupt-02 a2a-112

cluster_mgmt

na-croupt-01 a1a-110

na-croupt-01 e0M

na-croupt-02 a2a-110

na-croupt-02 e0M

clusterwide

na-croupt-01 a1a

na-croupt-01 e1b

na-croupt-01 e2b

na-croupt-02 a2a

na-croupt-02 e1b

na-croupt-02 e2b

iSCSI

na-croupt-01 a1a-112

Failover

Group Node Port

------------------- ----------------- ----------

iSCSI

na-croupt-02 a2a-112

intercluster

na-croupt-01 a1a-208

na-croupt-02 a2a-208

n01_mgmt

na-croupt-01 a1a-110

na-croupt-01 e0M

n02_mgmt

na-croupt-02 a2a-110

na-croupt-02 e0M

22 entries were displayed.

na-croupt::> network port show

Auto-Negot Duplex Speed (Mbps)

Node Port Role Link MTU Admin/Oper Admin/Oper Admin/Oper

------ ------ ------------ ---- ----- ----------- ---------- ------------

na-croupt-01

a1a data up 1500 true/- auto/full auto/1000

a1a-1 data up 1500 true/false auto/full auto/1000

a1a-110

node-mgmt up 1500 true/false auto/full auto/1000

a1a-112

data up 1500 true/false auto/full auto/1000

a1a-208

intercluster up 1500 true/false auto/full auto/1000

e0M node-mgmt up 1500 true/true full/full auto/100

e0a data up 1500 false/true full/full 1000/1000

e0b data up 1500 false/true full/full 1000/1000

e1a cluster up 9000 true/true full/full auto/10000

e1b data down 1500 true/true full/half auto/10

e2a cluster up 9000 true/true full/full auto/10000

e2b data down 1500 true/true full/half auto/10

e5a data up 1500 false/true full/full 1000/1000

e5b data up 1500 false/true full/full 1000/1000

e5c data up 1500 false/true full/full 1000/1000

e5d data up 1500 false/true full/full 1000/1000

Auto-Negot Duplex Speed (Mbps)

Node Port Role Link MTU Admin/Oper Admin/Oper Admin/Oper

------ ------ ------------ ---- ----- ----------- ---------- ------------

na-croupt-02

a2a data up 1500 true/- auto/full auto/1000

a2a-1 data up 1500 true/false auto/full auto/1000

a2a-110

node-mgmt up 1500 true/false auto/full auto/1000

a2a-112

data up 1500 true/false auto/full auto/1000

a2a-208

intercluster up 1500 true/false auto/full auto/1000

e0M node-mgmt up 1500 true/true full/full auto/100

e0a data up 1500 false/true full/full 1000/1000

e0b data up 1500 false/true full/full 1000/1000

e1a cluster up 9000 true/true full/full auto/10000

e1b data down 1500 true/true full/half auto/10

e2a cluster up 9000 true/true full/full auto/10000

e2b data down 1500 true/true full/half auto/10

e5a data up 1500 false/true full/full 1000/1000

e5b data up 1500 false/true full/full 1000/1000

e5c data up 1500 false/true full/full 1000/1000

Auto-Negot Duplex Speed (Mbps)

Node Port Role Link MTU Admin/Oper Admin/Oper Admin/Oper

------ ------ ------------ ---- ----- ----------- ---------- ------------

na-croupt-02

e5d data up 1500 false/true full/full 1000/1000

32 entries were displayed.

Anyone any idea why I am getting an error ?

And a slightly related question: This best practices TR document:

http://www.netapp.com/us/media/tr-4182.pdf

mentions on p.10:

2.3.3 Cluster Management

The cluster management LIF is used to manage the cluster. It can only reside on and fail over to data ports but can fail over to any data port on any of the nodes in the cluster.

In my configuration, I am using e0M to house the cluster management LIF and node management LIF, but I am also using the ifgrp ports tagged with VLAN 110 (management network) for failover purposes. I've changed the role of those ports (a1a-110 on node 1 and a2a-110 on node 2) to "node-mgmt". The setup works (except for the glitch desribed above) but I am wondering since TR-4182 mentions that cluster management LIFs should reside on and fail over to data ports that configuring the port roles to "node-mgmt" is a mistake ? Basically I want to use the VLAN 110 ports for both cluster and node management.

Thanks in advance,

Filip

Re: failed to migrate: failed to move cluster/node-mgmt LIF.

bbjholcomb — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 02:18:38 GMT

I believe the recommended setup is to have a dedicated port for cluster management such as e0a and e0M for node management, these should ports should NOT be on a VLAN.We have these on the same IP segment but NetApp recommends they be on the separate IP segments.

Re: failed to migrate: failed to move cluster/node-mgmt LIF.

filipsneppe — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 15:22:13 GMT

Hi,

I have now come across this issue on two cDOT setups, with one common factor: in both cases, I had changed the cluster identity (so basically changed the cluster name) without rebooting the nodes. In the second case, I came across this problem (which can be summed up as: "network interface migrate refuses to migrate a lif") and after a node reboot, the problem disappeared.

So I am now more or less convinced that this issue was caused by a cluster identity rename without performing a node reboot.

So, workaround: reboot cluster nodes.

Best regards,

Filip

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