https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Data-interface-lif-for-fcp-has-Failover-Policy-disabled-Is-it-correct/m-p/160008#M10400 <P><SPAN class="tlid-translation translation"><SPAN title="">Good afternoon!</SPAN><BR /><SPAN title="">I have NetApp FAS2552 ONTAP 9.1 Cluster HA (two nodes).</SPAN><BR /><SPAN title="">In the Network Interfaces settings I can see that the data interface lif for cifs has Failover Policy: system_defined.</SPAN> <SPAN title="">It's good.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN class="" title="">But the data interface lif for fcp has Failover Policy: disabled.</SPAN> <SPAN class="" title="">Is it correct?</SPAN> <SPAN class="" title="">In this case, will fault tolerance be ensured when rebooting or shutting down one of the two nodes?</SPAN><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="FailoverPolicy.jpg" style="width: 999px;"><img src="https://community.netapp.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/10147i64A33937A79A4F7A/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="FailoverPolicy.jpg" alt="FailoverPolicy.jpg" /></span></SPAN></P> Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:50:43 GMT areti 2025-06-04T10:50:43Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Data-interface-lif-for-fcp-has-Failover-Policy-disabled-Is-it-correct/m-p/160008#M10400 <P><SPAN class="tlid-translation translation"><SPAN title="">Good afternoon!</SPAN><BR /><SPAN title="">I have NetApp FAS2552 ONTAP 9.1 Cluster HA (two nodes).</SPAN><BR /><SPAN title="">In the Network Interfaces settings I can see that the data interface lif for cifs has Failover Policy: system_defined.</SPAN> <SPAN title="">It's good.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN class="" title="">But the data interface lif for fcp has Failover Policy: disabled.</SPAN> <SPAN class="" title="">Is it correct?</SPAN> <SPAN class="" title="">In this case, will fault tolerance be ensured when rebooting or shutting down one of the two nodes?</SPAN><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="FailoverPolicy.jpg" style="width: 999px;"><img src="https://community.netapp.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/10147i64A33937A79A4F7A/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="FailoverPolicy.jpg" alt="FailoverPolicy.jpg" /></span></SPAN></P> Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:50:43 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Data-interface-lif-for-fcp-has-Failover-Policy-disabled-Is-it-correct/m-p/160008#M10400 areti 2025-06-04T10:50:43Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Data-interface-lif-for-fcp-has-Failover-Policy-disabled-Is-it-correct/m-p/160009#M10401 <P>FCP or iSCSI lifs don't failover.&nbsp; &nbsp;Your hosts need to rely on multipathing for failover.&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 07 Oct 2020 18:30:01 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Data-interface-lif-for-fcp-has-Failover-Policy-disabled-Is-it-correct/m-p/160009#M10401 SpindleNinja 2020-10-07T18:30:01Z