I don't believe this is an official supported procedure. There are reports that it has worked, but there are others that it has caused crashes. I would wait until you can take a quick downtime before doing this.
-- Adam Fox adamfox@netapp.com
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From: Leeds, Daniel [mailto:dleeds@edmunds.com] Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 4:26 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: removing a loop from running filer
I have not done this recently so I was hoping someone on the list has. Basically I need to decomission a loop on an existing filer and migrate the shelves to another filer. I need to do this with the original filer live and running no downtime can be incurred.
the aggregate has been destroyed the disks were all zeroed and are now spares i have verified each individual disk resides in the shelfs/loop i need to remove and no data/root disks are in this loop
cluster failover will be disabled during this procedure.
at this point i should be able to remove the optical loop cabling and the filer will complain but otherwise keep on running correct?
thanks for any input in advance
-- Daniel Leeds Manager, Storage Operations Edmunds, Inc. 1620 26th Street, Suite 400 South Santa Monica, CA 90404
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