On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:31:36PM -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> Hi all;
>
> We have a loaner NetApp that has three shelves on it.  One of those
> shelves needs to be returned to the vendor.
>
> An aggregate spans two shelves, one of which is the shelf that needs to
> be returned.  This aggregate contains a FlexVol currently in use.  I'd
> like to preserve the FlexVol but remove the shelf.
>
> What are my options?  Doesn't look like I can shrink an aggregate.  Is
> my best bet to shut down everything usin the FlexVol, then vol copy it
> to another aggregate, destroy the original aggregate, remove the shelf
> and then recreate the aggregate again?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Ray
>

Thanks all for the response.

It's only a 512GB (SIS enabled) volume, so I created a new volume on
the other aggregate and am using vol copy to copy the data over.  This
seems incredibly slow (it's estimating two hours to complete) -- I
thought it might be a little quicker since there is only about 130GB of
data on the volume.

Gotta figure out how to up the concurrent login limit on the filer as
well, can't even fire up another console to stop the copy if I wanted
to! :)

Thanks,
Ray