topic Re: Nfs Vol Move in ONTAP Discussions

Nfs Vol Move

tuncay — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:25:04 GMT

Hi,

We have 4 node cluster(ontap 9.1) and we are planning to move our nfs vol to new node aggr which is newly added.

The first question is, can we move nfs vol nondisruptively to other node?

The second question, after move vol to new added node, which lif is going to serve to nfs vol? Because there is no lif option when you moving volume ?

Thanks,

Tuncay

Re: Nfs Vol Move

ekashpureff — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 23:11:41 GMT

Tuncay -

The volume move command is disruptive, mostly.

There's the time it takes to do the last snapmirror transfer while we quiesce the IO on the front end before updating the VLDB to point to the new volume location.

The default cutover delay is 30 seconds.

See the man page for the command: http://docs.netapp.com/ontap-9/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.netapp.doc.dot-cm-cmpr-920%2Fvolume__move__start.html

As for your second question ... NFS 3 will continue to use the same LIF.

Best practice would be to migrate the LIF to the new node when you move the volume.

I hope this response has been helpful to you.

At your service,

Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr.
Independent NetApp Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff
Senior NetApp Instructor, Fast Lane US http://www.fastlaneus.com/
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Re: Nfs Vol Move

AlexDawson — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 04:10:07 GMT

> The volume move command is disruptive, mostly.

I think you mean non-disruptive 🙂