During an 8-node AFF A700 deployment with BES-53248 cluster switches, after discovering ports higher than 16 are offline, which two steps must be taken to bring them online?

During an 8-node AFF A700 deployment with BES-53248 cluster switches, after discovering ports higher than 16 are offline, which two steps must be taken to bring them online?

• A. Check cabling; Reboot the switch
• B. Re-enable each port; Reload the switch
• C. Re-assign IP addresses; Reconfigure LIFs
• D. Re-run auto port placement; Update switch firmware

Answer: (B)

In this setup, ports above the default active range can be offline because they’re administratively disabled. To bring them online, you need to enable each port so the interfaces move from down to up, and then reload the switch to reinitialize the fabric and apply the new port states across the cluster. Re-enabling each port makes the physical links active, and reloading the switch ensures the switch fully reinitializes with the newly enabled ports, allowing them to participate in the cluster communication and traffic. The other options don’t address the immediate cause: cabling issues could cause a problem but won’t activate disabled ports; changing IP addresses or LIF configurations, or performing auto port placement or a firmware update, aren’t required to bring offline physical ports online.

In this setup, ports above the default active range can be offline because they’re administratively disabled. To bring them online, you need to enable each port so the interfaces move from down to up, and then reload the switch to reinitialize the fabric and apply the new port states across the cluster.

Re-enabling each port makes the physical links active, and reloading the switch ensures the switch fully reinitializes with the newly enabled ports, allowing them to participate in the cluster communication and traffic.

The other options don’t address the immediate cause: cabling issues could cause a problem but won’t activate disabled ports; changing IP addresses or LIF configurations, or performing auto port placement or a firmware update, aren’t required to bring offline physical ports online.