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 Post subject: manually offline of a port, does port failover to partner?
PostPosted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 7:11 pm 

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The other day I had to offline an FC port (controlport offline 2:0:2) and then put it back online (controlport rst 2:0:2) when troubleshooting an issue with HPE support. When I looked in vmware I saw all those paths marked as dead. Is this expected?

I thought the partner node would assume the identity of the offline port and vmware would barely notice anything or does port failover only happen on a node restart?

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 Post subject: Re: manually offline of a port, does port failover to partne
PostPosted: Thu Aug 23, 2018 7:40 am 

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I can't find the mail, but I've been caught out by that before. You are correct that offlining the port doesn't make it failover to the partner. I'm sure HPE told me you need initiate a failover on the port if you want to do it a controlled manor like you what. Obviously if you pull the FC cable out that would work, but if you're not at the site that could be a problem.


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 Post subject: Re: manually offline of a port, does port failover to partne
PostPosted: Thu Aug 23, 2018 7:54 am 

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after a bit of google, i think the command you needed was controlport failover <node:slot:port> before taking the port offline

And i think controlport failback brings it back


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