topic Re: Reallocate after disk adds in ONTAP Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Reallocate-after-disk-adds/m-p/68069#M15862 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>In Ontap 7.3 or later, I'd just use reallocate start -A -o</P><P></P><P>J </P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:34:26 GMT fjohn 2010-10-04T13:34:26Z Reallocate after disk adds https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Reallocate-after-disk-adds/m-p/68064#M15860 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi all,</P><P>I've a question about physical reallocation.</P><P>We will add some disks to our aggregate next week going from 1 aggregate configured with raidsize 18 (18 disks x 3 raid groups) to raidsize 22 (22 disks x 3 raid groups) adding 12 disks to the aggregate.</P><P>After reading some information about reallocation and adding new disks I'm coinsidering running a physical reallocation on the volumes to reallocate the volume to span on all disks and distributing the free space equally on all disks.</P><P></P><P>Should I run a reallocate -fp on every volume?</P><P>What's the better way to do it in this case?</P><P>Should I start from smallest volume to largest one and run the reallocate -fp on each volume waiting for it to finish before going to the next one?</P><P></P><P>Just a little question about the read_realloc option to anyone that used/tested it... Where would it be better in most cases? Databases? Users windows shares?</P><P></P><P>Thanks</P><P>Francesco</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:07:37 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Reallocate-after-disk-adds/m-p/68064#M15860 f_duranti 2025-06-05T07:07:37Z Re: Reallocate after disk adds https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Reallocate-after-disk-adds/m-p/68069#M15862 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>In Ontap 7.3 or later, I'd just use reallocate start -A -o</P><P></P><P>J </P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:34:26 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Reallocate-after-disk-adds/m-p/68069#M15862 fjohn 2010-10-04T13:34:26Z