Hi Mario,
you can always rip and rebuild. But that's a rather lengthy process.
You would need to initialize all disks, which destroys the cluster(s) and everything that has been pre-configured.
You'd then need to follow the "MetroCluster(TM) Installation and Configuration Guide" that can be found here:
http://mysupport.netapp.com/documentation/docweb/index.html?productID=62093&language=en-US
To keep the configuration you already have I'd suggest the following on the node you want to take disks away from:
- re-configure the RAID type for the existing data aggregate from RAID DP to RAID4. This will free up a spare disk in each pool
--> aggr modify -aggregate <aggr-name> -raidtype raid4
- create a small mirrored aggregate. You need to be in advanced mode to be able to create such a small aggregate (it will be expanded at the end)
--> set advanced
--> aggr create -aggregate <new-aggr-name> -diskcount 4 -raidtype raid4 -mirror true -force-small-aggregate true
- aggregate creation will take some time as the former parity disk needs to get zeroed.
- the system might complain about not having any spare disks left (this is expected)
- once the aggregate is created, move the MDV volumes to that new aggregate (still need to be in advanced mode)
--> vol show -vserver <node-name>
- move the volumes that listed as "online"
--> vol move start -vserver <cluster-name> -volume MDV_CRS_<some-ID>_A -destination-aggregate <new-aggr-name>
--> vol move start -vserver <cluster-name> -volume MDV_CRS_<some-ID>_B -destination-aggregate <new-aggr-name>
- offline and destroy the old aggregate
--> aggr offline <aggr-name>
--> aggr delete >aggr-name>
- disable disk-autoassign to be able to re-assign disks as you want them to be
--> disk options modify autoassign off
- reassign the disks to the node and pool you want them to be. DOUBLE-CHECK POOL ASSIGNMENT and leave anough spares for the cluster to grow the small aggregate and a spare per pool.
--> disk show -fields owner-id,owner,pool
--> disk removeowner -disk <disk-name>
- go to other node and perform disk assignment
--> disk assign -disk <disk> -pool <pool>
Now clean up
- reset disk autoassignment
--> disk options modify autoassign on
- change RAID type of the small aggregate to RAID DP
--> aggr modify -aggregate <new-aggr-name> -raidtype raid-dp
- add additional disks to the data aggregates at both sides (leave a spare!) For RAID DP an aggregate must contain at least 5 disks.
--> aggr add <new-aggr-name> -diskcount <number of disks>
- rename the aggregate
--> aggr rename <new-aggr-name> -newname <old-aggr-name>
- zero disks on both clusters by running the following command on both sides
--> disk zero spares
You are done.
regards, Niels
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