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What's the concept of taking over and give back of controller

newbeee — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 23:26:43 GMT

Abit confusing with take over an give back
Any simple explaination

Thanks

Re: What's the concept of taking over and give back of controller

JGPSHNTAP — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 18:03:56 GMT

If you are talking about 7-mode, you should review the HA guide. IT's for uptime and in 7-mode it takes the personality of the other one

Re: What's the concept of taking over and give back of controller

shatfield — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 19:20:22 GMT

Simple concept. Two storage controllers working as a HA Pair, each able to "take over" its partner's workload during a planned or unplanned outage, which it can later "give back" when the partner is ready.

Re: What's the concept of taking over and give back of controller

NAYABSK — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 03:48:53 GMT

Hi,

Please go through the KB below which explains what exactly happen during take over and give back and also please go to HA guide Page:- 20 to understand HA Pair works ?

https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMP1196905/html/GUID-9827FCFE-558D-45EE-9D4E-EBD0EC654195.html

https://library.netapp.com/ecm/ecm_download_file/ECMP1210206

Thx,

Nayab