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Failover group configuration on a CDOT 8.3 cluster.

NairAJ — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 20:24:22 GMT

All, The following shows our current setup of failover groups in our cluster1 and have an issue with failover.

nas001::> failover-groups show

nas001

nas001a:a0a, nas001a:a0b

nas001b:a0a, nas001b:a0b

The home port for data lif is given as nas001a:a0a

we made the data lif move to nas001b:a0b and took out the cables which essentially makes "nas001b:a0b" down and we lost the connectivity to the data lif.

This should not be occuring because nas001a:a0a, nas001a:a0b and nas001b:a0a were up and running but it did not failed over.

Any suggestion or are we missing soemthing.

Thanks,

Re: Failover group configuration on a CDOT 8.3 cluster.

aborzenkov — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 13:11:08 GMT

What is failover policy? Failover group only defines possible candidates; how these candidates are selected is determined by failover policy.

Re: Failover group configuration on a CDOT 8.3 cluster.

NairAJ — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 13:58:16 GMT

This is our first cluster and here is the policy.

nas001::> network interface show -failover

svm001a

svm001a_cifs_lif1 nas001a:a0a system-defined 1G

Failover Targets: nas001a:a0a, nas001a:a0b,

nas001b:a0a, nas001b:a0b

In this situation at least the data lif should have failed over to the failover group nas001b:a0a when a0b on the same node was not availble.

Thanks.