topic Re: Commands to create a BIG aggr including all the rest of disks in ONTAP Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Commands-to-create-a-BIG-aggr-including-all-the-rest-of-disks/m-p/45520#M10669 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>aggr create aggr1 -r 18 90</P><P></P><P>No need to worry about pool name.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:12:56 GMT resqme914 2013-09-27T15:12:56Z Commands to create a BIG aggr including all the rest of disks https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Commands-to-create-a-BIG-aggr-including-all-the-rest-of-disks/m-p/45493#M10656 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Seeking for commands to create a BIG aggr(64bit), including all unused disks on the filer, without specififying any disk names?</P><P>I have 4 shelves, and 23-24 disk each, the aggr will include 5RG's DP, and 3 hot spares. </P><P></P><P>Also, after some tests, i would probably destroy the aggr, would this have any impact to allow me to re-create?</P><P></P><P>Thank you!</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:53:01 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Commands-to-create-a-BIG-aggr-including-all-the-rest-of-disks/m-p/45493#M10656 netappmagic 2025-06-05T05:53:01Z Re: Commands to create a BIG aggr including all the rest of disks https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Commands-to-create-a-BIG-aggr-including-all-the-rest-of-disks/m-p/45497#M10657 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P> or any way don't have to list each disk name, and a simplied wildcard?</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 27 Sep 2013 00:46:50 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Commands-to-create-a-BIG-aggr-including-all-the-rest-of-disks/m-p/45497#M10657 netappmagic 2013-09-27T00:46:50Z Re: Commands to create a BIG aggr including all the rest of disks https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Commands-to-create-a-BIG-aggr-including-all-the-rest-of-disks/m-p/45502#M10660 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>You can specify just a number of disks in new aggregate.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 27 Sep 2013 04:41:24 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Commands-to-create-a-BIG-aggr-including-all-the-rest-of-disks/m-p/45502#M10660 aborzenkov 2013-09-27T04:41:24Z Re: Commands to create a BIG aggr including all the rest of disks https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Commands-to-create-a-BIG-aggr-including-all-the-rest-of-disks/m-p/45507#M10663 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>would you please elabrate a little bit more on the syntax? I have 93 disks, plan to have 5 raid-dp with 18 disks each, and 3 spares. The following works for you? and do the same on the other filer? since this is going to be done from scratch, do i need to create pool first?</P><P>aggr create aggr1 -B 64 -r 18 -T SAS -t raid-dp</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 27 Sep 2013 14:40:31 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Commands-to-create-a-BIG-aggr-including-all-the-rest-of-disks/m-p/45507#M10663 netappmagic 2013-09-27T14:40:31Z Re: Commands to create a BIG aggr including all the rest of disks https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Commands-to-create-a-BIG-aggr-including-all-the-rest-of-disks/m-p/45512#M10665 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>if you don't want to specify individual disks then you can do &lt;ndisks&gt;[@disk-size&gt;].&nbsp;&nbsp; So in your case, since I think you only have one size of disks, you can simply finish off your aggr create command above with 90.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 27 Sep 2013 14:54:02 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Commands-to-create-a-BIG-aggr-including-all-the-rest-of-disks/m-p/45512#M10665 resqme914 2013-09-27T14:54:02Z Re: Commands to create a BIG aggr including all the rest of disks https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Commands-to-create-a-BIG-aggr-including-all-the-rest-of-disks/m-p/45517#M10668 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>do I need to specify raid group size? the following is good then?</P><P> aggr create aggr1 -B 64 -r 18 90</P><P></P><P>what about pool name, do i need to worry about pool name?</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 27 Sep 2013 14:58:06 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Commands-to-create-a-BIG-aggr-including-all-the-rest-of-disks/m-p/45517#M10668 netappmagic 2013-09-27T14:58:06Z Re: Commands to create a BIG aggr including all the rest of disks https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Commands-to-create-a-BIG-aggr-including-all-the-rest-of-disks/m-p/45520#M10669 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>aggr create aggr1 -r 18 90</P><P></P><P>No need to worry about pool name.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:12:56 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Commands-to-create-a-BIG-aggr-including-all-the-rest-of-disks/m-p/45520#M10669 resqme914 2013-09-27T15:12:56Z