https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FAS8020-upgrade-from-9-1-to-9-2-no-LIF-failover/m-p/132988#M8227 <P>Hi, I've been preparing for this upgrade and chose to use the automated method through OCM. When it finishes validating the update it throws a couple of warnings. One of those is to run manual checks to verify a few last things.</P><P>One of those checks looks at LIF failover and it's here I noticed that my 4x LIFs have no failover policy, i.e. all disabled. I have 2 FCP interfaces per node = 4x LIFs in total.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Should I have a failover policy for my FCP LIFs?</P><P>I've upgraded from 8.3.2 to 9.1 in the past with no issues whatsoever.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thanks</P> Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:49:04 GMT machinist 2025-06-04T14:49:04Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FAS8020-upgrade-from-9-1-to-9-2-no-LIF-failover/m-p/132988#M8227 <P>Hi, I've been preparing for this upgrade and chose to use the automated method through OCM. When it finishes validating the update it throws a couple of warnings. One of those is to run manual checks to verify a few last things.</P><P>One of those checks looks at LIF failover and it's here I noticed that my 4x LIFs have no failover policy, i.e. all disabled. I have 2 FCP interfaces per node = 4x LIFs in total.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Should I have a failover policy for my FCP LIFs?</P><P>I've upgraded from 8.3.2 to 9.1 in the past with no issues whatsoever.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thanks</P> Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:49:04 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FAS8020-upgrade-from-9-1-to-9-2-no-LIF-failover/m-p/132988#M8227 machinist 2025-06-04T14:49:04Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FAS8020-upgrade-from-9-1-to-9-2-no-LIF-failover/m-p/132994#M8229 FCP LIFs never fall over - that's by design. Sat, 22 Jul 2017 04:50:29 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/FAS8020-upgrade-from-9-1-to-9-2-no-LIF-failover/m-p/132994#M8229 aborzenkov 2017-07-22T04:50:29Z