topic Migrating flexvolumes with snapshots and flexclones from 32bit Aggregate to 64bit Aggregate in ONTAP Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Migrating-flexvolumes-with-snapshots-and-flexclones-from-32bit-Aggregate-to/m-p/37625#M8947 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Is there a netapp whitepaper for migrating existing flexvols, their snapshots and flexclones hanging from those snapshots from a 32bit aggregate to a 64bit aggregate?</P><P>Also when moving a flexclone will it fully hydrate or is there a way of avoiding this?</P><P></P><P>We are planning an upgrade from ONTAP 7.3.2 to 8.0.2 and from 32bit aggregates to 64bit aggregates.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:41:33 GMT rhadfield 2025-06-05T06:41:33Z Migrating flexvolumes with snapshots and flexclones from 32bit Aggregate to 64bit Aggregate https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Migrating-flexvolumes-with-snapshots-and-flexclones-from-32bit-Aggregate-to/m-p/37625#M8947 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Is there a netapp whitepaper for migrating existing flexvols, their snapshots and flexclones hanging from those snapshots from a 32bit aggregate to a 64bit aggregate?</P><P>Also when moving a flexclone will it fully hydrate or is there a way of avoiding this?</P><P></P><P>We are planning an upgrade from ONTAP 7.3.2 to 8.0.2 and from 32bit aggregates to 64bit aggregates.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:41:33 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Migrating-flexvolumes-with-snapshots-and-flexclones-from-32bit-Aggregate-to/m-p/37625#M8947 rhadfield 2025-06-05T06:41:33Z Migrating flexvolumes with snapshots and flexclones from 32bit Aggregate to 64bit Aggregate https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Migrating-flexvolumes-with-snapshots-and-flexclones-from-32bit-Aggregate-to/m-p/37629#M8950 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P> Check out TR-3786 (Intro to 64-bit aggregates). </P><P></P><P>It does a pretty good job of what you can do and not do and how to migrate.</P><P></P><P><A href="http://media.netapp.com/documents/tr-3786.pdf" target="_blank">http://media.netapp.com/documents/tr-3786.pdf</A></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:19:21 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Migrating-flexvolumes-with-snapshots-and-flexclones-from-32bit-Aggregate-to/m-p/37629#M8950 bsti 2011-11-09T21:19:21Z Migrating flexvolumes with snapshots and flexclones from 32bit Aggregate to 64bit Aggregate https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Migrating-flexvolumes-with-snapshots-and-flexclones-from-32bit-Aggregate-to/m-p/37634#M8953 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi and welcome to the Community!</P><P></P><P>ONTAP 8.1 (currently RC1) may help - if you are ready to grow your aggregates beyond 16TB limit, they will automatically be converted to 64-bit. But still (for a reason completely unknown to me) you can't simply convert sub-16TB aggregate from 32-bit to 64-bit.</P><P></P><P>You can use SnapMirror though for data &amp; snapshots migration.</P><P></P><P>Regards,</P><P>Radek</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:47:00 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Migrating-flexvolumes-with-snapshots-and-flexclones-from-32bit-Aggregate-to/m-p/37634#M8953 radek_kubka 2011-11-09T21:47:00Z Re: Migrating flexvolumes with snapshots and flexclones from 32bit Aggregate to 64bit Aggregate https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Migrating-flexvolumes-with-snapshots-and-flexclones-from-32bit-Aggregate-to/m-p/37639#M8956 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Data ONTAP 8.1 also allows you to do VSM from 32 to 64 aggregates which converts them to 64 bit on destination.</P><P></P><P>SnapMirror will preserve FLexClone space savings (there are some manual steps necessary to setup it).</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 10 Nov 2011 03:18:32 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Migrating-flexvolumes-with-snapshots-and-flexclones-from-32bit-Aggregate-to/m-p/37639#M8956 aborzenkov 2011-11-10T03:18:32Z