I have not run ONTAP 8 on anything other than a simulator, so I don't know this to be fact. I suspect, that if you wanted your root volume to be 64 bit, you could take steps similar to how they were moved from traditional volumes to flexible volumes: 1. Create a new flexible volume on a 64 bit aggregate with sufficient capacity to accommodate vol0 (for the sake of this argument, we'll call it newvol0) 2. QTree snapmirror or ndmpcopy vol0 to newvol0 3. vol options newvol0 root (this makes it the root volume instead of the original vol0) 4. Reboot 5. Rename vol0 to oldvol0 and rename newvol0 to vol0 - if you wish to retain vol0 as your root 6. If you are licensed for CIFS, you will have to change your CIFS shares that were on the original vol0 to point to the new vol0 as the renaming of the volumes caused the shares to follow the name changes.
Could be worth a try on a system that you don’t mind rebuilding.
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Simon Vallet Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 9:06 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Several questions about ONTAP 8.0 and DS4243 shelves
Hi,
we recently acquired two filers (3140) with DS4243 shelves, and upgraded them to ONTAP 8.0. I know that this is a GA release, but I did notice some glitches (which are perfectly understandable), and have some questions for the people here who understand this better than me :
- installing the 8.0 doc yields a "Documentation for Data ONTAPTM 8.0 is installed, but is out-of-date." message ;
- I couldn't find any firmware updates for the DS4243 shelves on NOW -- is this normal? ;
- we configured the e0M interface (and I think that it is a great idea), but I couldn't find a way to configure the filer to exclusively be administrated through e0M (i.e. the embedded SSH server now answers on both interfaces) ;
- since we migrated from a 7.x release, our root volumes are on 32-bit aggregates -- is there a way to have the root volume on a 64-bit aggregate (and if not, what is the technical reason for it) ?
Do some of you have encountered the same questions ?
Regards, Simon