Change ip Address of a vfiler and remove the old ip address

INWORKLST — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:19:49 GMT

Dear Community

I am using powershell, to automate the cifs migration from a physical server to a vfiler.

During the migration I assigne the vfiler a temporary ip addresse, to set the vfiler in producation, I have to change the ip addresse of the vfiler to the ip address of the old server.

With the Set-NaVfilerAddress -Name vfiler -AddAddresses x.x.x.x I can set the new ip address but when I wan't to remove the old ip addresse with Set-NaVfilerAddress -Name vfiler -RemoveAddresses x.x.x.x I get the error that the old ip addresse is still configured.

Set-NaVfilerAddress : Operation not allowed as IP address is configured

On Line:1 Charecter:20

+ Set-NaVfilerAddress <<<< -Name "filer1" -RemoveAddress 10.101.1.42 -Controller $filer_source_connection

+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (netappsrv1-test:NaController) [Set-NaVfilerAddress], EVFILEROPNOTALLO

WED

I know when I execute setup command in vfiler context I can unconfigure the old ipaddresse, but this only works in interactive mode not in none interactive.

Is there a Cmdlets which solve my problem? Or an other none interactive way?

Re: Change ip Address of a vfiler and remove the old ip address

beam — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:42:02 GMT

Here's the process I use for removing a configured vfiler IP address:

First we add and configure the new address using Set-NaVfilerAddress:

PS C:\PowerShell> Set-NaVfilerAddress lemon -AddAddresses 192.168.0.200 -Interface ns0 -Netmask 255.255.255.0

Name Status Ipspace VfnetCount VfstoreCount AdminHost

---- ------ ------- ---------- ------------ ---------

lemon running default-ipspace 2 1

PS C:\PowerShell> Get-NaVfiler lemon | select -ExpandProperty vfnets

Interface Ipaddress Netmask

--------- --------- -------

ns0 192.168.0.117 255.255.255.0

ns0 192.168.0.200 255.255.255.0

The address 192.168.0.117 is the one we want to remove. First, we need to unconfigure it. This can be accomplished by removing the alias from the interface the address is bound to:

PS C:\PowerShell> Get-NaNetInterface ns0 | select Interface, Aliases

Interface Aliases

--------- -------

ns0 {192.168.0.201, 192.168.0.117, 192.168.0.200}

PS C:\PowerShell> Set-NaNetInterface ns0 -RemoveAlias 192.168.0.117

Interface Ipspace Enabled PrimaryAddresses

--------- ------- ------- ----------------

ns0 default-ipspace True 192.168.0.102

Now that we've done this, we can use Set-NaVfilerAddress -RemoveAddresses:

PS C:\PowerShell> Get-NaVfiler lemon | select -ExpandProperty vfnets

Interface Ipaddress Netmask

--------- --------- -------

192.168.0.117

ns0 192.168.0.200 255.255.255.0

PS C:\PowerShell> Set-NaVfilerAddress lemon -RemoveAddresses 192.168.0.117

Name Status Ipspace VfnetCount VfstoreCount AdminHost

---- ------ ------- ---------- ------------ ---------

lemon running default-ipspace 1 1

PS C:\PowerShell> get-navfiler lemon | select -ExpandProperty vfnets

Interface Ipaddress Netmask

--------- --------- -------

ns0 192.168.0.200 255.255.255.0

Now we are left with the address we wanted.

I hope that helps!

-Steven

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