topic Re: Workflow needed for C-mode upgrade in Active IQ Unified Manager Discussions

Workflow needed for C-mode upgrade

jasher — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:20:01 GMT

Has anyone developed a workflow that would move all volume off of a given controller in a cluster?

My goal is to evacuate a node in a cluster so that all workloads are moved off of it so it is sort of in "maintenance mode" similar to doing the same on an ESX server. This way that node can be rebooted, hardware maintenance, etc without affecting running workloads and we don't want to go through storage failover/giveback.

Has anyone tried something like this?

Thanks,

Jeff Asher

Re: Workflow needed for C-mode upgrade

girirp — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 06:55:02 GMT

Jasher,

Are you looking for volume move workflow, which moves volume within cluster?

Thanks

Giri

Re: Workflow needed for C-mode upgrade

hill — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 09:23:33 GMT

Hi Jeff,

I have not done this specifically, but I think two workflows I've posted could be combined to do something this.

Workflow Example: vol move - c-mode - pretty self explanatory. This workflow moves a volume to another aggregate in the c-mode cluster... but is not node specifc
Workflow Example: (C-mode) Remove a vServer and it's volumes - This workflow uses looping. it identifies all of the volumes in a vServer, and then performs the actions to unmount, offline, then destroy them... and then eventually remove the vServer.

With the looping of the "remove" workflow, and the action moving the volume in the "vol move" workflow, I think those would work well for you.

Is this the sort of thing you were looking for?

Thanks,

Kevin