Exalogic: ZFS Storage Nodes Involuntary Reboot with "SAS zone locking violation" Message

(Doc ID 1503792.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 05, 2016

Applies to:

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software - Version 2.0.3.0.0 and later
Linux x86-64
Oracle Solaris on x86-64 (64-bit)

Symptoms

Storage nodes are caught in a reboot loop where the following message is observed: "failed to acquire SAS zone lock: SAS zone locking violation rebooting..."

The following is complete stack of message thrown in storage appliance console at the time of the issue.

Cause

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