topic V-Series to FAS conversion in ONTAP Hardware

V-Series to FAS conversion

sams — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:10:04 GMT

Is it possible to convert a V-Series to a FAS? What is the conversion process and how do we regenerate the FAS licenses?

Re: V-Series to FAS conversion

radek_kubka — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 11:57:39 GMT

Why would you do that? You can connect NetApp shelves to a V-Series controller (as well as 3rd party arrays), so effectively it is FAS as well, right?

Re: V-Series to FAS conversion

isaacs — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:02:31 GMT

Hi Sams,

The two platforms, while identical hardware, cannot be converted to the other. A head swap would be required.

May I ask why you want to do this? Perhaps we can help, provided we better understood the problem.

Thanks!

- Dan

Re: V-Series to FAS conversion

mbonneau79 — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 02:20:19 GMT

Correct, I use a gateway-licensed IBM N-Series with nothing but native disk shelves connected after we migrated away from our old DS4300's. You must also ensure you set the fc-non-array-adapter environment variable or you won't see the NetApp-native disk shelves. Works as it should.

Re: V-Series to FAS conversion

isaacs — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:35:14 GMT

That environment variable is only needed for FC-attached disk shelves, and only if using MP-HA cabling. Newer SAS shelves do not require it be set.

- Dan