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potent bane Nov 13, 2023, 12:48 PM

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Hi all,
I would like to create an additional cluster management interface. However the vlan ports are in another ip space. i tried creating a second admin vserver, but that option is not available. We are running 9.11.1P8
Any ideas?

wintry charm Nov 13, 2023, 9:11 PM

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you don't have a separate vlan for cluster management?

timber plover Nov 13, 2023, 9:18 PM

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did you try using the IPSpace name as the vserver name in net int create? as in net int create -vserver IPSPACE_HERE -lif mgmt2 ...?

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might need to try in diag mode, but every IPSpace is (internally) also an SVM

wintry charm Nov 13, 2023, 9:21 PM

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i think the problem is that the mgmt lifs are in the Default IP space and other lifs with the same IP net are in different ipspaces...

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just as a guess

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probably e0M in the default... sort of standard

timber plover Nov 13, 2023, 9:41 PM

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as I understood it OP just wants a second cluster mgmt LIF in a different (non-default) IPSpace... but maybe I misunderstood the question

wintry charm Nov 13, 2023, 9:48 PM

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i'm not sure how creating a lif in the svm "Default" ipspace gets one there, i guess...

timber plover Nov 13, 2023, 10:00 PM

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that's why I said to try and create it in the IPSpace itself instead of the default IPSpace. Like you do with Intercluster LIFs

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If you can create Intercluster LIFs directly in an IPSpace, you should be able to create management LIFs there as well. I can't test that at the moment as our lab system doesn't have free ports to add to a (test) IPSpace

wintry charm Nov 13, 2023, 11:12 PM

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i just don't think adding a lif to a non-default ipspace is going to result in a new cluster management lif that can actually log into the cluster svm

marsh condor Nov 14, 2023, 1:03 AM

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ONTAP only lets management lifs be created in the admin vserver. I tried for a customer a while ago. Won’t happen.

You are able to create data lifs and inter cluster lifs in another ipspace just not mgmt.

potent bane Nov 14, 2023, 9:45 AM

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Thanks all!
Here is some more detail:
We have a A700 cluster running 9.11.1P8.
We use e0M for node management and vlan 908 on an LACP port a0a for cluster management.
We use a Cloud IPspace which has port a0c with several vlans including vlan 612.
The goal is a cluster management lif in vlan 612.

wintry charm Nov 14, 2023, 9:50 AM

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set up a broadcast-domain with vlan 612 in the default ipspace, move all of your "management" interfaces, both vlan and physical, into that broadcast-domain

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of course, the physical interfaces also have to have their switch configuration adjusted to be a port in vlan 612. just make sure you save one physical interface until the end or you'll lock yourself out

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test connectivity along the way with the interfaces you've moved... so you can still login again... then take the last physical interface...

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