We are planning on removing a couple of HA pairs from a cluster, then of cause correspong LIF's on these nodes as well.
The problem is that these LIF's are hard coded on clients for mounting. For instance, they used SVM-lif1 for node1 and SVM-lif2 for node2 to reference volumes. When we remove these nodes, LIF's will be removed as well.
One solution I can think of is to create DNS alias for these legacy LIF's. the problem with that is these legacy LIF's would be staying there "forever".
Are there any better solution for that?