What exactly does when you start the vol move on 7 mode?

SEENIKANNAN — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:04:49 GMT

Hi,

Would like to know What exactly does when you start the vol move on 7 mode? Referring below output can someone help me to understand?

netapptest> vol move start vol_test aggr_move
netapptest> vol move status vol_test
Source Destination CO Attempts CO Time State
vol_test aggr_move 3 60 setup
netapptest> vol move status vol_test -v
Source: vol_test
Destination: aggr_move:ndm_dstvol_1543407823
State: setup
Cutover Attempts: 3
Cutover Time: 60
Last Completed Transfer:
Data Transferred = 0 KB Time Taken = 0 s
Current Transfer Size = 0 KB
netapptest> vol move status vol_test -v
Source: vol_test
Destination: aggr_move:ndm_dstvol_1543407823
State: move
Cutover Attempts: 3
Cutover Time: 60
Last Completed Transfer:
Data Transferred = 220 KB Time Taken = 6 s
Current Transfer Size = 0 KB
netapptest> vol move status vol_test -v
Source: vol_test
Destination: aggr_move:ndm_dstvol_1543407823
State: move
Cutover Attempts: 3
Cutover Time: 60
Last Completed Transfer:
Data Transferred = 220 KB Time Taken = 6 s
Current Transfer Size = 112 KB
netapptest> vol move status vol_test -v
Source: vol_test
Destination: aggr_move:ndm_dstvol_1543407823
State: move
Cutover Attempts: 3
Cutover Time: 60
Last Completed Transfer:
Data Transferred = 112 KB Time Taken = 7 s
Current Transfer Size = 0 KB
netapptest> vol status
Volume State Status Options
vol0 online raid_dp, flex root
64-bit
vol_test quiesced raid4, flex
64-bit
ndm_dstvol_1543407823 online raid_dp, flex snapmirrored=on, fs_size_fixed=on
snapmirrored
read-only
64-bit
netapptest>

Regards,

SEENIKANNAN

Re: What exactly does when you start the vol move on 7 mode?

SpindleNinja — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 18:51:47 GMT

It starts a copy of the volume over to the other aggr, kinda like a snapmirror.

The cutover part is it waiting for a pause in IO to grab the last bits before it offlines and removes the orgional one.

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