topic Re: Moving Load Sharing Volumes in ONTAP Discussions

Moving Load Sharing Volumes

BenBrazil — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 13:48:54 GMT

Hi,

I have a six node cluster at the moment - 3, two node pairs.

NODE3 - Will be decommissioned.

NODE4 - Will be decommissioned.

NODE5 - No change

NODE6 - No change

NODE7 - New Node

NODE8 - New Node

I've got Load Sharing volumes configured for my SVM's.

One of my SVM's has the SVM root volume on NODE3. The replicated LS volumes are on NODE3, NODE4, NODE5 and NODE6. I will need to move the root volume from NODE3 to NODE7 and the replicated volumes on NODE3 and NODE4 to NODE7 and NODE8. Is it just a case of quiescing the snapmirror and then moving the root and replicated volumes and then resuming the snapmirror, or is there anything additional to be done with LS volumes?

Thanks,

Ben

Re: Moving Load Sharing Volumes

TMACMD — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 14:49:45 GMT

LOAD SHARING volumes cannot be moved.

https://mysupport.netapp.com/site/article?lang=en&page=%2Fon-prem%2Fontap%2FDP%2FSnapMirror%2FSnapMirror-KBs%2FUnable_to_move_load_sharing_destination_volume_by_using_volume_move_command&type=solution

Worst case... just delete all the LS mirror stuff

Quiesce mirrors. Break mirrors. Delete Mirrors, delete mirrored roots, delete any snapmirror snapshots.

Recreate volumes as LS for mirrors on nodes required

Setup snapmirror relationship

Initialize-ls-set to re-establish

Re: Moving Load Sharing Volumes

BenBrazil — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 17:39:00 GMT

Thanks for the information.