Hello All,
We have a vfiler "x" currently sitting on one node of a v3170 HA pair. We want to move it to a new 3240 HA pair.
Looks like the automagic tools that NetApp offers for this can't work for us because a) the destination filer has less NVRAM than the source, and b) the source is at 7.3.5 and the destination 8.0.2.
We could create a new vfiler on the destination and snapmirror every volume. But we don't use qtrees. There are default qtrees on the dozen or two volumes on the source vfiler, but these can't be snapmirrored to the destinations as (if I understand this correctly) directly as the snapmirror process first deletes the destination qtree and then recreates it. And if you delete the default qtree (qtree0) for a volume you delete the volume. In other words, this path would require we create a qtree below the default and end up with an added folder in the path of the copied destination folder, and need to touch every client that connects to the export.
The new HA pair is in a different subnet than the source. So the IP address of the vfiler will change. But ideally nothing else should.
Anybody got any ideas for how to do this short of creating a new vfiler from scratch and using rsync to move all the data via NFS? RE-assigning DNS names and AD memberships during a switchover outage?