Provisioning new added nodes

netappmagic — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 23:20:50 GMT

we just added two nodes into the cluster.

Any rules should I consider to provisioning new aggregates? We have vmware/datasotre, NFS for Linux, and home. I know this is a very generic questions, are there any rules, or just follow the same way as we did to existing aggrs?

Re: Provisioning new added nodes

scottgelb — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 14:24:56 GMT

Some of the list of things when I add nodes below... specifically for VMware over nfs, if you vol move, then re-home and move the LIF dedicated to that datastore.. If a new datastore volume, also create a new lif for that datastore.

•   Match ONTAP version
•   set non-UTA2 ethernet ports to no flowcontrol
•    match options settings (ip.fastpath for example)
•   Setup autosupport (node specific, not a cluster setting)
•   Setup date/time/ntp (pre 8.3 it is a node, not a cluster setting)
•   make sure "cluster ha show" is false (>2 nodes) - should be automated
•   ping cluster test
•   create aggregates
•   create volumes
•   rename root aggregates to naming conventions
•   resize vol0
•   create interface groups
•   create VLANs
•   add interfaces to broadcast-domains / failover groups that apply for lif failover
•   add interface to portsets for SAN
•   modify reporting-nodes for selective lun mapping as needed.
•   create lifs/set IP addresses (and add to load balancer or dns round robin / ns records)
o   LIFs for Vservers (Ethernet and FCP ports)
•   assign failover groups to lifs (should be no change here unless new LIFS and SVMs)
•   Create additional LS/DP mirrors for SVM root to the new nodes.
•   Load balance existing volumes

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