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August 23rd, 2024 20:42
Primary VLT Peer failure causes catastrophic failure for Windows Cluster
We have a 4 Node Windows failover cluster utilizing Switch Embedded Teaming (SET), Two Dell S4048-ON switches utilizing VLT. One link from each NIC in the SET to each VLT Peer. We have simulated multiple failure scenarios, and we only ever experience catastrophic results when the failure involves the primary VLT peer. Nodes drop from the cluster, cluster shared volumes lose connection, VMs crash...
If we reload the VLT peers by pulling the power or by issuing the reload command, our cluster folds if it was the primary VLT peer that was reloaded.
If we shutdown all the interfaces manually (including the VLTi), our cluster folds if that was done on the primary VLT peer.
We can reload and kill interfaces on the secondary peer all day without issue.


