SFW-HA does not detect when all Paths to System Disk (ON SAN) become unavailable
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Description
Error Message
The Operating System, through vxio, will report that the path was lost.
An example of this would be seen in the Window's System Event log
ERROR 41(0xc0050029) vxio NODE_NAME
vxio: cluster or private disk group
Cause
When there is a path loss on the active node, the passive (failover target) node in the cluster continues to receive SFW-HA cluster heartbeats (over the local area network). SFW-HA therefore considers the affected node as available and does not trigger a failover.
Resolution
In virtual environments, if the VM OS boot disk resides on SAN storage, Veritas recommends using DMP on the host to set up redundant paths from the host to the storage.
Applies To
SFW-HA 5.1.x SP2 and 6.x.x
Windows 2008 R2
VMware ESXC 4.1.0
Issue/Introduction
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