LPAR failover results in a session in the Severe state

Problem

An LPAR on one DS8000® storage system fails over to another DS8000 storage system, resulting in sessions that appear to be in a Severe state. This occurs on an LPAR failover when the LPAR is not quiesced. This problem can negatively affect performance when using an HMC connection or direct connection.

Action

Avoid performing actions on the session until the session returns to a normal state; sessions return from a Severe or Prepared state to a Normal or Prepared state on their own.

For additional information about LPAR fail overs, see the DS8000 documentation.