topic Re: Metro Cluster with two shelves in ONTAP Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Metro-Cluster-with-two-shelves/m-p/26127#M6135 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>This doc is worth reading:</P><P><A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.netapp.com/us/library/technical-reports/tr-3548.html" target="_blank">http://www.netapp.com/us/library/technical-reports/tr-3548.html</A></P><P></P><P>It does refer to software disk ownership, albeit it doesn't explicitly either disapproves or approves the config in question.</P><P></P><P>Regards,</P><P>Radek</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:56:13 GMT radek_kubka 2010-06-09T13:56:13Z Metro Cluster with two shelves https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Metro-Cluster-with-two-shelves/m-p/26113#M6132 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi all!</P><P>My customer wants to build an asymmetric active-passive MetroCluster with two shelves total only (one shelf on first side and another shelf on second).</P><P>See picture.</P><P><IMG src="http://community.netapp.com/legacyfs/online/8310_MC.jpg" width="450" /></P><P>And we have a questions:</P><UL><LI>Is it possible to implement (technically)?</LI><LI>Is it a supported configuration?</LI></UL><P></P><P>Regards</P><P>Alexey</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:13:46 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Metro-Cluster-with-two-shelves/m-p/26113#M6132 alexey_tkachev 2025-06-05T07:13:46Z Re: Metro Cluster with two shelves https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Metro-Cluster-with-two-shelves/m-p/26118#M6133 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>It is possible technically with controllers that support software based disk ownership in Metro Cluster (not supported for older models); best practice is to dedicate the whole shelf to head though.</P><P></P><P>I let someone from NetApp to comment on supportability of such configuration ☺</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:50:40 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Metro-Cluster-with-two-shelves/m-p/26118#M6133 aborzenkov 2010-06-09T13:50:40Z Re: Metro Cluster with two shelves https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Metro-Cluster-with-two-shelves/m-p/26127#M6135 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>This doc is worth reading:</P><P><A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.netapp.com/us/library/technical-reports/tr-3548.html" target="_blank">http://www.netapp.com/us/library/technical-reports/tr-3548.html</A></P><P></P><P>It does refer to software disk ownership, albeit it doesn't explicitly either disapproves or approves the config in question.</P><P></P><P>Regards,</P><P>Radek</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:56:13 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Metro-Cluster-with-two-shelves/m-p/26127#M6135 radek_kubka 2010-06-09T13:56:13Z