#ONTAP Select, recovery of cluster...

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sharp echo
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As we are planning to use Select for a few remote sites in a HA setup we are also trying to break it and see how we can recover...
The two nodes mirror their aggregates which is nice, and of one of the nodes shuts-down and other takes over if the mediator agrees...
This is all rescribed in the manual, what isn't described it how to recover from a total loss of one of the nodes... lets say we do not have a backup of the node, we just want to recreate it and join the cluster.
This is all possible on bare iron nodes, but somehow this isn't described anywhere, or am I just not looking hard enough? 😉

neat horizon
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I think the process is similar.

jaunty axle
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The procedure to recreate a node exists but it is managed through Support and not publicly available. They want to control it due to the complexity and variables involved.

neat horizon
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Ah ok. Yeah that makes sense, but it would be nice to have that in a publically consumable KB.

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@wild walrus FYI.

neat horizon
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@sharp echo not sure what you searched but we can update this to make it searchable.

sharp echo
neat horizon
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Good stuff. What did you search for? Let me know and I'll fix it so it's searchable.

sharp echo
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Well, as always, when you know the abbreviation to search for like "OTS" it finds it.. To be honnest I cannot remember what I searched for, but my guess would be "ONTAP Select node recovery" which I also just tested, and it didn't present the above document amongst the first 20 hits... you do get something like this: https://kb.netapp.com/onprem%2Fontap%2FONTAP_Select%2FONTAP_Select_node_VM_recovery_in_case_of_disaster which isn't of much use.... maybe because I'm just a reseller, I am not allowed the "internal" documents..

NetApp Knowledge Base
ONTAP Select node VM recovery in case of disaster
opal latch
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I would like to know the same thing, but can also not access the KB. 😭