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Son_of_Tom_1379
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Nov 19, 2014

F5 Virtual Edition sensitive to SAN controller failover

We have a virtual edition running on a problematic SAN in one of our data centers. From time to time the primary SAN controller crashes and restarts, causing a failover to the secondary controller. W...
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Chase_Abbott
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Nov 21, 2014

We've seen similar issues when using VMWare against NFS mounts (non-SAN), with an extended failure of +10 seconds causing stale mounts/guests going to a read-only disk. A quicker failure (5 second failover) did not reproduce this symptom.

 

How long does the failover take and what hypervisor are you using against the SAN?