topic Re: Head Upgrade: FAS2620 with internal SATA drives to FAS2720 in ONTAP Hardware

Head Upgrade: FAS2620 with internal SATA drives to FAS2720

pedro_rocha — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:58:10 GMT

Hi,

We are upgrading controller hardware by moving storage. Original nodes are FAS2620 with internal SATA drives and new nodes are FAS2720 w/o drives.

It's not clear from the official docs if it is possible to move the internal drives from FAS2620 to FAS2720. The documentation says I can move those drive to another disk shelf or convert the original nodes to a shelf.

I am following this: https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap-systems-upgrade/upgrade/upgrade-by-moving-storage-parent.html

Do someone know that?

Regards,

Pedro

Re: Head Upgrade: FAS2620 with internal SATA drives to FAS2720

pedro_rocha — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 19:38:06 GMT

Hi,

Got the answer from the our SE. It is ok to move the drives from the FAS2620 to the FAS2720 in a head upgrade procedure.

Regards,

Pedro

Re: Head Upgrade: FAS2620 with internal SATA drives to FAS2720

JonathanGaudette — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 17:38:49 GMT

If you plan to perform the upgrade during an outage window, you can just move the disks between chassis and then assign the disks to the new controller SYSIDs from maintenance mode (with the disk reassign command)

Re: Head Upgrade: FAS2620 with internal SATA drives to FAS2720

Amador — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 13:07:39 GMT

Some additional information can be checked at Controller hardware upgrade for AFF and FAS systems resolution guide - NetApp Knowledge Base

Re: Head Upgrade: FAS2620 with internal SATA drives to FAS2720

pedro_rocha — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 13:38:46 GMT

Thanks Jonathan.

The only doubt was regarding the possibility of moving internal drives from FAS2620 to FAS2720 once the documentation did not cover that scenario. Our SE confirmed internally and it was indeed supported.