Probably too late to the party given the
rest of the thread, but the plan that Daniel mentioned is the best\easiest:
replace the disks with ones that are on the shelf you own.
Here’s another way to do it:
If you have to return the shelf, you have
to take downtime ANYWAYS (cannot hot-remove shelf from loop)… so just
move all the disks from one shelf to the other and give it back to NetApp. Or
better even, if the shelf you have to give back has data disks on it, and the
shelf you have to keep does not, just give them the other shelf (assuming they
are the same).
Glenn
From:
owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008
5:15 PM
To: Ray Van Dolson;
toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: RE: Removing a shelf.
one by one disk replace. if vol0 were a trad
volume with 2 disks you would disk replace the first one to a spare disk on the
other aggregate. once complete do the same with the other disk. do
this *one by one* for all disks that make up your vol0 volume.
--
Daniel Leeds
Manager, Storage Operations
Edmunds, Inc.
310-309-4999 desk
310-430-0536 cell
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com on behalf of Ray Van Dolson
Sent: Fri 11/14/2008 1:55 PM
To: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: Re: Removing a shelf.
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 09:43:49AM -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> 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
>
So go the volume all moved. Went well. However, I just realized
that
vol0 is on aggr0! Argh. Is there any way to relocate vol0 safely
while the filer is running?
I guess I could snapshot it, vol copy it to aggr1... what would be the
side-effects though?
Ray