topic hot removal of un-used netapp shelves in ONTAP Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/hot-removal-of-un-used-netapp-shelves/m-p/58176#M13669 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>we added 2 shelves to existing loop&nbsp; and totally forgot that number of drives supported / loop is 24 * 10 = 240 only . Now there are 11 shelves in a loop. What are the option of hot removing the newly added shelves which are not used yet Can we remove the cables one at a time and go back to original last shelf and then connect the new shelves to different SAS ports and create a new loop.</P><P></P><P>FAS3270 , ONTAP 8.13 P4 7 Mode</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:39:10 GMT NETAPP0508 2025-06-05T05:39:10Z hot removal of un-used netapp shelves https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/hot-removal-of-un-used-netapp-shelves/m-p/58176#M13669 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>we added 2 shelves to existing loop&nbsp; and totally forgot that number of drives supported / loop is 24 * 10 = 240 only . Now there are 11 shelves in a loop. What are the option of hot removing the newly added shelves which are not used yet Can we remove the cables one at a time and go back to original last shelf and then connect the new shelves to different SAS ports and create a new loop.</P><P></P><P>FAS3270 , ONTAP 8.13 P4 7 Mode</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:39:10 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/hot-removal-of-un-used-netapp-shelves/m-p/58176#M13669 NETAPP0508 2025-06-05T05:39:10Z Re: hot removal of un-used netapp shelves https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/hot-removal-of-un-used-netapp-shelves/m-p/58181#M13670 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>The only supported option with 8.1 is shutdown the filer. Hot shelf removal is supported starting with 8.2.1.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 01 Apr 2014 04:29:15 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/hot-removal-of-un-used-netapp-shelves/m-p/58181#M13670 aborzenkov 2014-04-01T04:29:15Z