Powershell 'Start-NcVolMove must be directed to the cluster vserver, redirection not possible'

jgriffit — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:09:10 GMT

Why is the Powershell command 'Start-NcVolMove' limited to the cluster SVM?

PS > $sourceVol | Start-NcVolMove -DestinationAggregate $DestinationAggr.AggrName -WhatIf 2021-11-08 16:55:19,231 INFO DataONTAP.C.PowerShell.SDK.NcControllerCmdlet - Cmdlet invocation: $sourceVol | Start-NcVolMove -DestinationAggregate $DestinationAggr.AggrName -WhatIf VERBOSE: Start-NcVolMove must be directed to the cluster vserver, redirection not possible. Start-NcVolMove : ================================================================================== | This cmdlet must be directed to the cluster admin vserver. You are currently | | connected to a data vserver. See the Toolkit web docs (Show-NcHelp) or online | | help (Get-Help Connect-NcController -Examples) to learn more about directing | | Toolkit cmdlets to a cluster or data vserver as required by Data ONTAP. | ================================================================================== At line:1 char:14 + ... sourceVol | Start-NcVolMove -DestinationAggregate $DestinationAggr.Ag ... + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (dataSVM:NcController) [Start-NcVolMove], Exception + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NcClusterCmdlet,DataONTAP.C.PowerShell.SDK.Cmdlets.Volume.StartNcVolMove PS >

PS > $PSVersionTable Name Value ---- ----- PSVersion 5.1.17763.2183 PSEdition Desktop PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...} BuildVersion 10.0.17763.2183 CLRVersion 4.0.30319.42000 WSManStackVersion 3.0 PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.3 SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1 PS > Get-Module -Name DataONTAP -ListAvailable Directory: C:\Users\[REDACTED]\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules ModuleType Version Name ExportedCommands ---------- ------- ---- ---------------- Manifest 9.8.0 DataONTAP {Add-NaAggr, Confirm-NaAggrSpareLow, Get-NaAggrMediaScrub, Get-NaAggrFilerInfo...} PS >

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Powershell 'Start-NcVolMove must be directed to the cluster vserver, redirection not possible'