topic Re: what is the effect of Changing the Shelf ID and Shelf Stack in ONTAP Hardware https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/what-is-the-effect-of-Changing-the-Shelf-ID-and-Shelf-Stack/m-p/19350#M1288 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 28 Jul 2013 15:24:51 GMT onosbluhart 2013-07-28T15:24:51Z what is the effect of Changing the Shelf ID and Shelf Stack https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/what-is-the-effect-of-Changing-the-Shelf-ID-and-Shelf-Stack/m-p/19342#M1286 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi guys</P><P></P><P>what is the effect of Changing the Shelf ID and Shelf Stack, is there a possibility of Losing data?</P><P></P><P>A customer has 2 stacks which were cabled fine but had IOM 3 DS4243 and IOM 6 DS4246 in the same stack, is it possibile to recable and restack the IOMs change the shelf IDs without losing data</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:57:23 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/what-is-the-effect-of-Changing-the-Shelf-ID-and-Shelf-Stack/m-p/19342#M1286 onosbluhart 2025-06-05T05:57:23Z Re: what is the effect of Changing the Shelf ID and Shelf Stack https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/what-is-the-effect-of-Changing-the-Shelf-ID-and-Shelf-Stack/m-p/19347#M1287 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Yes, it is possible to change shelf id and stack without data loss. This is disruptive operation - you need to shutdown filer to do it.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 26 Jul 2013 07:20:50 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/what-is-the-effect-of-Changing-the-Shelf-ID-and-Shelf-Stack/m-p/19347#M1287 aborzenkov 2013-07-26T07:20:50Z Re: what is the effect of Changing the Shelf ID and Shelf Stack https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/what-is-the-effect-of-Changing-the-Shelf-ID-and-Shelf-Stack/m-p/19350#M1288 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 28 Jul 2013 15:24:51 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/what-is-the-effect-of-Changing-the-Shelf-ID-and-Shelf-Stack/m-p/19350#M1288 onosbluhart 2013-07-28T15:24:51Z