topic Can I do a vol move in my situation? in ONTAP Hardware

Can I do a vol move in my situation?

cgeck0000 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:27:37 GMT

Currently doing a complete storage migration from DS14 shelves to DS4246 and DS2246 shelves.

Customer is 90% FC and iSCSI attached storage to physical servers running SQL clusters and web servers.

Some volumes will stay on the same controller node but move to the new aggregate while others will move to the other controller node.

FAS3270

DOT 8.1.4 7-Mode

Old aggregates are 32bit, new are 64bit

I know for the volumes moving between controllers we will snapmirror for sure.

But for the volumes staying on the same controller can I do a vol move? I thought in the past that wasn't possible because of the 32bit \ 64bit aggregate differences. But getting conflicting information from these 2 NetApp sites.

Requirements for performing a volume move

https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMP1196995/html/GUID-09E9890C-EFD4-47EA-9539-A658FD251C93.html

Dated May 2013

Requirements for performing a volume move

https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMM1277787/html/bsag/GUID-09E9890C-EFD4-47EA-9539-A658FD251C93.html

Dated Nov. 2010

Re: Can I do a vol move in my situation?

shatfield — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 20:25:06 GMT

Neither of those links are specific to your version of ONTAP. The 2013 link is for ONTAP 8.2, the 2010 link os for ONTAP 8.0.

If you check the docs for 8.1.4:
https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMP1136382/html/html/210-05627/GUID-09E9890C-EFD4-47EA-9539-A658FD251C93.html

You will see this note:

Beginning in Data ONTAP 8.1.1, you can move a volume from a 32-bit aggregate to a 64-bit aggregate. However, you cannot move a volume from a 64-bit aggregate to a 32-bit aggregate.

Hope that helps.

Re: Can I do a vol move in my situation?

cgeck0000 — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 21:28:51 GMT

Shatfield,

Thank you for following up on this for me. I see now how to get to the different documentations for the ONTAP versions.

This is exactly what I need and has helped us out with this migration.