I have an FAS2050 in my production environment, and contoller B has had issues with heat before. Hadn't swapped out the controller because of the old "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" and it was running; just was alerting about temperature (though the temp was fine). The other day during an electrical storm the AC unit for the server room went out, and as a result most everthing thermal'd and shut down. Upon restarting the NetApp Filer, I am getting the message FAS2050a has taken over this node on the controller B na_admin portal, and a similar message on controller A.
Since I had an extra user controller I sourced, I swapped the CF card and installed the controller. Now, during the boot, it tells me that IN0, IN1, and IN2 ports on IOM B have been disabled due to excessive Phy changes. It is also telling me that there are no disks attached to the system (though controller A is functioning just fine and the system is in use).
It would see that I need to assign disks to this controller, but will doing so interrupt the operation of controller A? Unfortunately I didn't set the system up (or mess with the configuration before), but my understanding was that controller B was just a fail over for when controller A had trouble. Is that a correct assumpton, or do some of the disks need to be assigned to the B controller to load balance the disk operations?
