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Fabric Pool: S3 External Capacity Tier creation failing.

Anshul — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:15:02 GMT

Fabric Pool: S3 External Capacity Tier creation failing.

Error:

Data ONTAP API Failed: Cannot verify availability of the object store from node <node name> Reason: No IP address found for the specified hostname.

Any pointer to resolve this error and steps to successfully create S3 External Capacity Tier will be appreciated.

Ontapforrum — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 11:31:25 GMT

Hi,

Have no idea, some pointers. 2nd KB is quite detailed incase any step is missing.

May or may not be applicable:
Cannot verify availability of the object store from node 'Reason: Internal error'
https://kb.netapp.com/app/answers/answer_view/a_id/1086600

FabricPool: How to attach AWS S3 object store to ONTAP 9.2
https://kb.netapp.com/app/answers/answer_view/a_id/1030123

Alternatively, also log a call with NetApp.

Thanks!

paul_stejskal — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 14:30:38 GMT

Did you configure DNS? That's what it looks like to me. DNS needs to be configured for each SVM.