https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/limitation-on-volume-count-on-filer/m-p/114298#M7134 <P>As per the data from Hardware universe.. each filer has a limitation on number of volumes that it can support .. eg 1000 for Singe node which makes 500 for the same &nbsp;when</P><P>a HA pair/cluster is created...</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Kindly help me with the following questions .. considering that there is 2 node and single vserver cluster mode setup</P><P>&nbsp;</P><UL><LI>What is the maximum number of volumes that can be created in the vserver considering that my each node can support upto 1000 ?</LI><LI>What will &nbsp;happen during the Storage Failover &nbsp;if the voume count exceeds the limit ...? Does the extra volumes go offline ?</LI><LI>If the volumes go down.. &nbsp;is there any way that we can select which volumes have to be made offline during Storage failover ..?</LI></UL><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thanks in advance..&nbsp;</P> Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:23:46 GMT mraviteja 2025-06-04T22:23:46Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/limitation-on-volume-count-on-filer/m-p/114298#M7134 <P>As per the data from Hardware universe.. each filer has a limitation on number of volumes that it can support .. eg 1000 for Singe node which makes 500 for the same &nbsp;when</P><P>a HA pair/cluster is created...</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Kindly help me with the following questions .. considering that there is 2 node and single vserver cluster mode setup</P><P>&nbsp;</P><UL><LI>What is the maximum number of volumes that can be created in the vserver considering that my each node can support upto 1000 ?</LI><LI>What will &nbsp;happen during the Storage Failover &nbsp;if the voume count exceeds the limit ...? Does the extra volumes go offline ?</LI><LI>If the volumes go down.. &nbsp;is there any way that we can select which volumes have to be made offline during Storage failover ..?</LI></UL><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thanks in advance..&nbsp;</P> Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:23:46 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/limitation-on-volume-count-on-filer/m-p/114298#M7134 mraviteja 2025-06-04T22:23:46Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/limitation-on-volume-count-on-filer/m-p/114300#M7135 <P>Failover allows the max of both controllers in the ha-pair so all set there...there could be a degradation in performance depending on if the controllers are running over 50% or total over 100% together.&nbsp; SVMs are across all nodes, so the node limit applies the same... you can have all volumes in one svm or two svms, etc..</P> Tue, 05 Jan 2016 20:32:16 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Hardware/limitation-on-volume-count-on-filer/m-p/114300#M7135 scottgelb 2016-01-05T20:32:16Z