topic Re: Volume group to Pool in EF & E-Series, SANtricity, and Related Plug-ins

Volume group to Pool

Local_Admin — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:04:08 GMT

Is there a way to transform volume group to pool, without loosing data?

Re: Volume group to Pool

SpindleNinja — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 13:06:04 GMT

Do you mean FlexGroup to FabricPool?

Re: Volume group to Pool

NetApp_AU — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 05:40:31 GMT

Hello Local_Admin,

On E-Series, there is not a way to convert traditional Volume Groups (VGs)to Dynamic Disk Pools (DDPs) nor the other way around. VGs and DDPs lay out data and parity in very different ways so converting them isn't possible.

If you want to switch to a VG or DDP, you will have to create a new DDP or VG and migrate your data to it.

Thank you