topic Reuse disks from controller in ONTAP Hardware https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Reuse-disks-from-controller/m-p/54638#M3851 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi all,</P><P></P><P>we have FAS2220 setup initially in this way.</P><P>total 12 disks</P><P>controller 1 - 5 disks</P><P>controller 2 - 7 disks</P><P>active - active with HA</P><P></P><P>Now I want to reuse all the 5 disks from controller 1 and assign it to controller 2 and create one large aggregate.</P><P>Controller 1 will only be used in case controller 2 dies.</P><P>I have moved all the data from controller 1 aggregate/volumes and need to know how to destroy root volume/aggregate and assign disks to controller 2.</P><P>Also how to setup controller 1 to be able to take over in case controller 2 dies.</P><P></P><P>Any suggestions?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:08:03 GMT d_omerovic 2025-06-05T06:08:03Z Reuse disks from controller https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Reuse-disks-from-controller/m-p/54638#M3851 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi all,</P><P></P><P>we have FAS2220 setup initially in this way.</P><P>total 12 disks</P><P>controller 1 - 5 disks</P><P>controller 2 - 7 disks</P><P>active - active with HA</P><P></P><P>Now I want to reuse all the 5 disks from controller 1 and assign it to controller 2 and create one large aggregate.</P><P>Controller 1 will only be used in case controller 2 dies.</P><P>I have moved all the data from controller 1 aggregate/volumes and need to know how to destroy root volume/aggregate and assign disks to controller 2.</P><P>Also how to setup controller 1 to be able to take over in case controller 2 dies.</P><P></P><P>Any suggestions?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:08:03 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Reuse-disks-from-controller/m-p/54638#M3851 d_omerovic 2025-06-05T06:08:03Z Re: Reuse disks from controller https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Reuse-disks-from-controller/m-p/54644#M3853 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Dino,</P><P></P><P>You need minimum of 3 disks per controller.</P><P></P><P>There are many threads on Community discussing this, e.g. <A _jive_internal="true" class="active_link" href="https://community.netapp.com/message/42579#42579" title="https://communities.netapp.com/message/42579#42579" target="_blank">https://communities.netapp.com/message/42579#42579</A></P><P></P><P>Regards,</P><P>Radek</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:33:53 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/Reuse-disks-from-controller/m-p/54644#M3853 radek_kubka 2013-03-12T10:33:53Z