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Remove disk shelf from HA pair

RATNATHURAI — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:57:11 GMT

I want to remove a disk shelf from a HA pair and connect that disk shelf into an another HA pair.

Hope someone will correct if my steps below are wrong..

1- Destroy the aggregate (I snapmirrored all volumes to an another aggregate which is not part of this disk shelf and moved the root volume too).

2- cf disable.

3- disk zero all

4.disk asign <disk id> -s onowned on eat a time for all the disks on that shelf.

5- halt both controllers.

7. power down the shelf and remove it

I am not sure whether I have to power down the controllers.

aborzenkov — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 03:04:03 GMT

You do not need to power down controllers, but you need halt both of them.

saranraj456 — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 03:29:55 GMT

1- Destroy the aggregate

2- Unown the disks

3- Zero the Spares

4.CF Disable

5- halt both controllers.

7. power down the shelf and remove it

you may hit "Failed DISK/Bad Labelled disk" problem when you connect this shelf. Pls refer this link for that https://communities.netapp.com/thread/10933