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During Mammoth Expansion Access to All X8-2 Servers Being Expanding into the Cluster is Lost, showvnics Reports WAIT-IOA State for Each (Doc ID 2864872.1)

Last updated on JULY 20, 2024

Applies to:

Linux OS - Version Oracle Linux 7.6 and later
Linux x86-64

Symptoms

During a mammoth expansion, while expanding X8-2 servers into a BDA cluster, access to the X8-2 servers is lost.
Checking showvnics on the leaf switches shows that each X8-2 has a WAIT-IOA state like: 

The existing cluster hosts all have a kernel version of: 4.1.12-124.29.3.el7uek.x86_64
The X8-2 servers being expanded into the cluster all have a kernel which is not a UEK4QU6 kernel.

Cause

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