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How-to exchange filers' disks and aggrs

jqLi
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Hi,

 

We have 2 Fas8020 Running 7-Mode OnTap 8.2.3P3 in HA pair, their aggrs are all SyncMirrored. We'd like to exchange their disks ownership to make A controller works as B controller. And the same to B. How could we do?

 

I have read some Introductions for replace one node using

 

disk reassign -s   <old_sysid> -d <new_sysid>

 

but I am afraid if I use 

 

disk reassign -s   <a_sysid> -d unowned

disk reassign -s   <b_sysid> -d <a_sysid>

disk reassign -s   unowned -d <b_sysid>

reboot

 

I think something error may happen during that.

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aborzenkov
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Well, in this case disable cf before exchanging disks (and reboot controllers after that to make sure they come as single nodes). When swapping disks do not unassign them, rather assign to some dummy sysid not equal to both controllers. This way you will always have overview which disks belong to which controller. After booting enable cf again.

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