Saturday, September 7, 2013

NetApp - Slow access to management from Teamed/LACP Hosts

If you are a good sysadmin, you have an out-of-band management network.  You also have an out-of-band management host which is a standalone server.  And because you're that awesome, you probably team your NICs.  LACP is a great way to do that.

However, if you have a NetApp, and you use LACP on your OOBM host to connect to your NetApp management host, you may have some odd behavior when attempting to manage it.  Non-LACP hosts or hosts on a separate broadcast domain don't have an issue.

By default, this option is set to ON on all NetApp filers:

ip.fastpath.enable           on

Change this to:
ip.fastpath.enable           off

You'll no longer have an issue.

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