Environment: SRM5 (Build 633117) / vSphere 5 (Build 623860) - NetApp Ontap 8.0.2P6
In the recoveryplan step 4 "Create writeable storage snapshot" we get the following errormessage.
Error - Failed to create snapshots of replica devices. Failed to create snapshot of replica device /vol/na03_cn2_del_chunk4. SRA command 'testFailoverStart' failed for device '/vol/na03_cn2_del_chunk4'. Unable to export the NAS device Ensure that the correct export rules are specified in the ontap_config.txt file.
In the vmware-dr-xx.log on the SRM-server we see this:
--> 29-05-2012T08:42:12 Checking existence of storage device /vol/na03_cn2_del_chunk4
--> 29-05-2012T08:42:12 Storage device /vol/na03_cn2_del_chunk4 is a NFS export
--> 29-05-2012T08:42:13 Creating test Clone volume testfailoverClone_nss_v10745371_na03_cn2_del_chunk4
--> 29-05-2012T08:42:22 Mapping Export /vol/testfailoverClone_nss_v10745371_na03_cn2_del_chunk4
--> 29-05-2012T08:42:22 changing path from /aggr3_sas_nfs01 to /vol/vol_nfs01
--> 29-05-2012T08:42:22 Append the exportfs for path /vol/testfailoverClone_nss_v10745371_na03_cn2_del_chunk4
--> 29-05-2012T08:42:23 NFS /vol/testfailoverClone_nss_v10745371_na03_cn2_del_chunk4 exported to all input VMkernel IP
--> 29-05-2012T08:42:23 Onlining export /vol/testfailoverClone_nss_v10745371_na03_cn2_del_chunk4
--> 29-05-2012T08:42:23 Export /vol/testfailoverClone_nss_v10745371_na03_cn2_del_chunk4 is online already
--> 29-05-2012T08:42:23 Check if /vol/testfailoverClone_nss_v10745371_na03_cn2_del_chunk4 has test-failed over
--> 29-05-2012T08:42:23 Verifying mapping information for Export /vol/testfailoverClone_nss_v10745371_na03_cn2_del_chunk4
--> 29-05-2012T08:42:23 changing path from /aggr3_sas_nfs01 to /vol/vol_nfs01
--> 29-05-2012T08:42:23 Error while exporting VMkernel and/or additional IP to the export /vol/testfailoverClone_nss_v10745371_na03_cn2_del_chunk4.
--> Skipping Export /vol/testfailoverClone_nss_v10745371_na03_cn2_del_chunk4
--> 29-05-2012T08:42:23 Test-Failover-start completed with errors
On the NetApp-filer the flexclone is generated and but the export name for the flexclone volume is blank !
Any ideas ?
Regards
André
June 15th 2012 UPDATE
After having supportcases at both VMware and Netapp - they came up with this solution:
This error is caused by a flaw in the NetApp SRA 2.0. If you have an "-actual" statement in the /etc/exports file on the snapmirror destination filer the SRA will fail to create the flexvol-sharename. So if you are carefull and only use sharenames that equals volumenames for all shares (!) then you avoid the "-actual" statement and the SRA seems to work.
NetApp has confirmed this to be a bug in the SRA.
Regards
André
