I'm leaving the existing shelves attached to the 3240 and added in these 5 DS4243's to an existing stack of 1 DS4243... so the root vol isn't moving/changing.

Anyhow, you were right about the other drives. I added some of the drives in slots 1-23 and those came in as spares.

So the last part is the head swap which I want to try to pull off myself but will probably wait for professional services. We went through 2 motherboard replacements on the 3240 a couple of months ago, the procedure is probably pretty similar.

Thanks for your help!

Brian

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Learmonth, Peter <Peter.Learmonth@netapp.com> wrote:

Hi Brian

It should only be 3 disks assigned to the factory root aggr. The default behaviour is to grab the first disk of each of the first 3 shelves. If you check the rest of the disks, they should be spares.

If you reconnect the shelves that came from the factory as the first three to the FAS3240 and change the ownership back, you will likely recover the root vol. You could even do it with 1 disk and let it rebuild the missing 2. Gotta love RAID-DP.

I can’t remember off top of my head if disk reassign works in this case, or the syntax or if you need to be in maint mode.

Peter

From: toasters-bounces@teaparty.net [mailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net] On Behalf Of Brian Beaulieu
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 8:13 PM

To: toasters@teaparty.net
Subject: New Bundled DS4243 Shelves

I received our order of a new FAS3250 along with a 7 shelves.

I want to use the shelves on our FAS3240 for now. We'll be doing a head swap in the future.

I got 5 of the shelves attached today and then realized they were all owned by the FAS3250 that we got.

On top of that, it looks like all disks are in an aggregate. I suspect this because I forced disk ownership of drive 0 on one of the shelves and it imported aggr0 but then renamed it to aggr0(1) and put it offline.

I tried the same thing with drive 0 of another shelf and that imported aggr0(2) and put it offline.

So, what's the best way to handle this?

disk reassign ?

My fear is if I import 144 drives using 'disk assign <disk> -s <sysid>-f', I will end up with 144 aggr0(X) offline aggregates and then have to clean all of that up.

Once the headswap is done, the FAS3240 along with the other 2 remaining shelves will be going to our DR site and I imagine I'll be doing a fresh install of OnTAP on there since there will be no root vol

Thanks!

Brian