What happens when a LIF fails over?

• A. If a LIF fails over, clients reconnect to the active LIF on the failover partner, maintaining access.
• B. LIF failover terminates all sessions until manual reconfiguration.
• C. LIF failover changes IPs for all clients, causing disruption.
• D. LIF fails over requires manual intervention to reconnect clients.

Answer: (A)

When a LIF fails over, the logical interface is moved to the failover partner and becomes active there, carrying the same IP address. Clients reach that LIF using its IP, so from the client’s perspective nothing changes—the path is preserved and connections are re-established on the partner node as needed. This design minimizes disruption and doesn’t require manual reconfiguration by clients.

So, clients effectively reconnect to the active LIF on the failover partner, maintaining access. The other statements imply disruption, IP changes for clients, or required manual intervention, which aren’t how LIF failover is intended to work.