topic Re: cDOT first time in ONTAP Discussions

cDOT first time

NICKDAVIES — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:20:49 GMT

Hi All

My first play with cDOT. I am trying to create a volume on the node server. I keep getting an error saying Error: command failed: This operation is not allowed on a node Vserver.

Do you have to have a vserver to be able to create any data volumes?

thanks

Re: cDOT first time

A_Tomczak — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 14:01:35 GMT

Hi,

yes every volume belongs to a vserver. No vserver no data 😉

Alex

Re: cDOT first time

NICKDAVIES — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 15:56:28 GMT

yes i get that but in vserver show the actual physical nodes show here yet you dont seem to ba able to create volumes on them apart from the vol0.??

thanks

Re: cDOT first time

georgevj — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 06:00:11 GMT

Clustered Data ONTAP has 3 types of vservers (now renamed as Storage Virtual Machines or SVMs) ie, admin type, node type and data-serving type. The first two are purely for management and cluster operation, where the last one is the only data serving vserver. All data volumes must be associated with a data vserver. You can see the current vserver types in your cluster by issuing the command:

cluster :: > vserver show -fields Vserver,Type