topic How to migrate from vfiler to regular volume? in Network and Storage Protocols https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/How-to-migrate-from-vfiler-to-regular-volume/m-p/6233#M611 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I would like to know if anyone had done this and if so, what were the effects, anything to watchout in particular. I would like to move a vfiler from one cluster to another cluster and the target will be a regular volume and will not be a vfiler. The vfiler has only cifs/nfs shares and cifs is AD integrated. Is it going to be as simple as assigning the ip to the target filer and creating a volume there and copying data over?</P><P></P><P>Thanks</P><P>Kishan</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:24:43 GMT kishankoduru 2025-06-05T07:24:43Z How to migrate from vfiler to regular volume? https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/How-to-migrate-from-vfiler-to-regular-volume/m-p/6233#M611 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I would like to know if anyone had done this and if so, what were the effects, anything to watchout in particular. I would like to move a vfiler from one cluster to another cluster and the target will be a regular volume and will not be a vfiler. The vfiler has only cifs/nfs shares and cifs is AD integrated. Is it going to be as simple as assigning the ip to the target filer and creating a volume there and copying data over?</P><P></P><P>Thanks</P><P>Kishan</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:24:43 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/How-to-migrate-from-vfiler-to-regular-volume/m-p/6233#M611 kishankoduru 2025-06-05T07:24:43Z Re: How to migrate from vfiler to regular volume? https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/How-to-migrate-from-vfiler-to-regular-volume/m-p/6237#M612 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Nobody ever did this? I had done this in a test environment and everything checks out OK.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:51:25 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/How-to-migrate-from-vfiler-to-regular-volume/m-p/6237#M612 kishankoduru 2009-10-27T22:51:25Z Re: How to migrate from vfiler to regular volume? https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/How-to-migrate-from-vfiler-to-regular-volume/m-p/6241#M613 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>never got to try this.</P><P></P><P><A href="http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/ontap/rel732_vs/html/ontap/vfiler/provisioning/concept/c_oc_prov_vfiler-dr-what-migrate-cmds-do.html" target="_blank">http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/ontap/rel732_vs/html/ontap/vfiler/provisioning/concept/c_oc_prov_vfiler-dr-what-migrate-cmds-do.html</A></P><P></P><P>this will give you an option if you want to stay on a vfiler, and at the bottom of the link is another option which is good if you want to get off</P><P>a vfiler.</P><P></P><P>You re lucky to have a test environment <SPAN __jive_emoticon_name="wink" __jive_macro_name="emoticon" class="jive_macro jive_emote" src="https://community.netapp.com/images/emoticons/wink.gif"></SPAN></P><P></P><P>Eric</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:58:32 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/How-to-migrate-from-vfiler-to-regular-volume/m-p/6241#M613 eric_barlier 2009-10-28T00:58:32Z