Hi
Thanks to all who replied on- and off-list.
In the end, the whole process was painless. We inserted the disks in the spare chassis and the StoreVault happily mounted the aggregate and booted from the root volume.
I'm not sure if the "StoreVault Edition" simply doesn't use software ownership or perhaps the boot process automatically takes ownership of any disks which are present. Either way, we didn't have to boot to the maintenance menu. We were happy to get the data we needed and didn't dig into the software ownership any further.
Now we just have to decide if it's worth keeping this old toaster around...
Best regards Steve
________________________________ From: Sebastian Goetze [spgoetze@gmail.com] Sent: 29 October 2014 06:18 To: Stephen Stocke; toasters@teaparty.net Subject: Re: StoreVault Chassis Swap
Hi Steve,
If the spare CF card contains a OS-Version at least as 'new' as the one on your broke system, you should be fine with the procedure you've described. The system should come up with 'Hey, there's no disks of mine attached', off to maintenance mode, re-assign them... If in maintenance mode it still says, "There's disks, but I can't read the labels" (Your worst case) the OS versions on the 'spare' CF card and the 'broke' CF card are incompatible - because the spare is too old. If it recognizes the disk labels, it will assimilate the aggregate, maybe 'drastically' upgrading the labels (if the spare OS version is newer than the broken one).
Just don't use option 4 and repurpose all your disks...
My 2c
Sebastian
On 10/28/2014 3:19 PM, Stephen Stocke wrote: Hi
We have a need to recover some data which was stored on a StoreVault S550. We have all the disks from the original system and a spare S550 chassis. Unfortunately, we don’t have the CF card from the original system but the spare chassis still has its original CF card and we have licenses for the protocols required on the spare.
Does anyone have any insights as to how we can accomplish this? I’m hoping it will be as easy as booting the spare chassis to maintenance mode and changing ownership of the disks and then booting from vol0 on the newly found aggregate.
We’re a little nervous to just try it without some guidance in case there’s any chance that the new controller might do something drastic to the “foreign” disks. We’re obviously out of other options if we’re considering this path…
Finally, Netapp have taken down the old KB which provided the procedure for a chassis swap (KB42667) and unfortunately I don’t have a copy anywhere. I don’t think it quite covered our scenario but if anyone has a copy and can forward it, I would be grateful!
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