In short - this will be a real disaster and you will need NetApp support to clean it up.
After "failover of node 1 to node 2" you will neither be able to "bring up the now-replaced node 1" nor to "takeover node 2 on the new node 1" if you ever manage to bring it up.
-----Original Message----- From: toasters-bounces@teaparty.net [mailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net] On Behalf Of Jan-Pieter Cornet Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 4:55 PM To: toasters@teaparty.net Subject: head swap of Fabric Metro-Cluster?
Hi,
Does anyone have experience doing a head swap of a FMC, from 6080 heads to 6290 heads? And hints beyond what's already in the "Upgrading a FAS60xx system in an HA pair to a FAS62xx system in an HA pair" document?
Is there any reason why you can't do this, during a HA pair upgrade, to limit service downtime: - doing a failover of node 1 to node 2. - shut down and replace the hardware of node 1. - shutting down node 2. - bring up the now-replaced node 1, reassign disks, and takeover node 2 on the new node 1. - replacing the node 2 hardware - doing a giveback on node 1 to node 2.