Hello All,
I have two Exsi 5.0 in a cluster and i need to move both the two boot LUNs to another aggregates in NetApp. can some one please advise the steps i should follow for such migration.
Regards
Thanks JonathanKohler . I was able to finish that, your answer is correct, however, the DataMotion is available in NetApp starting from Version 8 and as i have my controllers on 7.3.7 , the feature was not available
DataMotion is about using vol move command which is not available in 7.3.7 but what i have done to solve that is to use the vol copy command, the key steps required was
Hi Zaydoov,
Moving of luns among aggregates will result to controller or target number changes? if any one of those changes it will leads to PDL situation.
so how i can successfully move the vmware esxi boot volume to another aggregate and allow the esxi server to detect the new boot space
Use NetApp DataMotion, if moving to another aggregate inside the same NetApp Controller (A > A or B > B)
https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMP1196995/html/GUID-A03C1B1E-3DE2-455D-B5AD-89C1389EF0C8.html
If it is to another controller (A > B or B > A), You are going to need downtime to do this either way, so I would either provision a new boot LUN, and rebuild ESXi, or snap mirror the volume over to the other controller and reboot the host for the cutover.
Personally, I'd provision the new boot volume, and rebuild. That gives you some fall back protection, and tight change control.
Jon
Thanks JonathanKohler . I was able to finish that, your answer is correct, however, the DataMotion is available in NetApp starting from Version 8 and as i have my controllers on 7.3.7 , the feature was not available
DataMotion is about using vol move command which is not available in 7.3.7 but what i have done to solve that is to use the vol copy command, the key steps required was