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Exalogic Physical: Newly Created VNICs On the Replaced Infiniband Switch Are In WAIT-IOA State (Doc ID 2485334.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 08, 2024

Applies to:

Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software - Version 2.0.0.0.0 to 2.0.3.0.7
Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Software - Version 2.0.4.0.0 to 2.0.4.0.7
Oracle Solaris on x86-64 (64-bit)
Linux x86-64

Symptoms

In older PSU versions of Exalogic Linux Physical 2.0.3.X racks and Solaris 2.0.4.X Physical racks, issue of newly created VNIC's in WAIT-IOA state is seen. In the problem case described in this Note the Infiniband Switch was replaced and there were no exabr backups for the Switch that was replaced. So the Infiniband Switch configuration was manually restored by following below steps.