topic Re: vol0 migration on ONTAP 9.7 in ONTAP Discussions

vol0 migration on ONTAP 9.7

BLMATX — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:16:14 GMT

Hi community. I'm attemtping to retire a legacy SATA loop. The problem it holds the root aggregate and vol0. I've used the migrate-root command, rebooted both nodes, and can see the new aggregate being created on the SAS shelf but vol0 stays put. Is there an extra step I am missing?

TIA,

Brad

Re: vol0 migration on ONTAP 9.7

SpindleNinja — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 20:16:15 GMT

Have you tried deleting the root vol and aggr via maint mode?

Re: vol0 migration on ONTAP 9.7

BLMATX — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 22:15:07 GMT

Thanks for the suggestion. I had not considered that. I haven't touched the ting in many years and am a little rusty. I'll give that a shot. So it would be safe to decommission the SATA loop, reboot into maintenance mode and have setup create a new root agg/vol?

Re: vol0 migration on ONTAP 9.7

SpindleNinja — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 00:54:13 GMT

Maybe I misread this... So you're just trying to decom a stack of SATA drives, that stack contains the root aggr / root volume for the node? And you ran through probably this KB to relocate the root aggr?

https://kb.netapp.com/app/answers/answer_view/a_id/1086971/~/how-to-non-disruptively-migrate-a-nodes-root-aggregate-onto-new-disks-in-ontap

Re: vol0 migration on ONTAP 9.7

BLMATX — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:18:53 GMT

Exactly. That and other posts across the net. It's just not working. We are moving our studio across town. Downsizing the data center. I need to be rid of this loop and send to e-recycle. 26U of space to be saved.

Re: vol0 migration on ONTAP 9.7

GidonMarcus — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 20:23:29 GMT

so in the KB @SpindleNinja linked to, where does it fail? do you see some error message in the following command?

job show -name "Root Aggregate Migration Job" -instance