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Question about vfilers and volumes

luisdomingos — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:18:10 GMT

Hello All,

I have to setup one vfiler in one HA pair and one tricky question comes to the table:

If I setup one vfiler in controller A it is possible to use one volume from controller A and another volume from controller B ?

Thanks in advance.

Re: Question about vfilers and volumes

martin_fisher — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:18:35 GMT

Hi. In short, it depends on what you are trying to do. You cant add a volume from Controller A & B, to the same vFiler on ControllerA, if thats what you mean. Why would you wish to do this? If you are using separate IPSpaces etc, then generally the volumes are assigned to vFilers using that IPSpace on an individual controller.

Martin

Re: Question about vfilers and volumes

scottgelb — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:07:48 GMT

Only volumes on the same physical controller answered already. And good point on ipspaces. Need to mark ipspaces for fail over. To use volumes on different nodes that concept is cluster-mode with Vservers which is a similar concept but across all nodes. But not available in 7-mode.