Since it's not a loop don't do it. Experience loop works but shelves at the end are not a good idea

Have fun. Maybe get up to the last supported version of ontap with ds14 shelves so that u can create 64bit aggregates and make use if vol move commands, etc. Think it 8.0.x
Skype michailm33

Good luck and have fun.

Mike

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----- Reply message -----
From: "Jeff Cleverley" <jeff.cleverley@avagotech.com>
Date: Wed, Feb 13, 2013 03:11
Subject: Live disk shelf removal.
To: "Herring, Jason" <jherring@insightinvestments.com>
Cc: "toasters@teaparty.net" <toasters@teaparty.net>, "Klise, Steve" <klises@sutterhealth.org>

I received a number of replies saying it works, but isn't supported.
Most likely we won't risk it.  I have a test cluster but it doesn't
have the same hardware or load as the production boxes.

Thanks,

Jeff

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Herring, Jason
<jherring@insightinvestments.com> wrote:
> *May go boom. It works 95% of the time. That 1% controller panic is a killer though.
>
> Sent from my iPhone 4S by my iThumbs
>
> On Feb 12, 2013, at 1:19 PM, "Klise, Steve" <klises@sutterhealth.org> wrote:
>
>> Nope.  Netapp goes boom.  Only option would be to fail some disks and replace.. Shelves need to stay, or take an outage... At least to my knowledge..
>> Clustermode would make this easier, but you still have to move off the storage and heads.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: toasters-bounces@teaparty.net [mailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net] On Behalf Of Jeff Cleverley
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 1:14 PM
>> To: toasters@teaparty.net
>> Subject: Live disk shelf removal.
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Is there a way to remove DS14 MK4 shelves from a running cluster?  I need to look into isolating some drives and removing some shelves and would like to do it without having to halt the cluster.  This is a
>> 7.3.5.1 Ontap cluster on FAS6080s.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jeff
>>
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