Resize Limit Hit

[N_ANDREEV]

So we've hit the resize limit for a LUN:

lun resize: New size exceeds this LUN's initial geometry

Now what options do we have? SnapMirror won't help, because the replicated LUN will have the same geometry. Are there any other ways to transfer data to a new LUN, except for the simple robocopy?

[ASHWANI8HIGHS]

Use ndmpcopy for data transfer

[N_ANDREEV]

I'm assuming that to accomplish this, I will need to power off the server, copy the LUN using ndmpcopy and reconfigure. It's a 2TB LUN. So it will take a considerable amount of time to copy. Is there any way to make an outage shorter?

[ASHWANI8HIGHS]

Copy speed will depend on source and destination distance .

Yes you  can do it  minimum outage .

1) Start with ndmpcopy 0 level

2) Once your data is copied using  level 0 ndmpcopy  use ndmpcopy level 1 & level 2 (if required) for incremental

data written when level 0 was running .

Use level 1 & level 2 copy  at the time when there is no or minimum data being written on lun . After level 2 i hope the new lun has all the data of  old lun and then mount the new lun on server

[N_ANDREEV]

Will try that and share the result. Thanks.

[Darkstar · Accepted solution]

ndmpcopy will almost certainly not work, because it copies the LUN geometry as well, so the new LUN will have the same geometry (and limitations) as the old one.

Your only option is to do the copy on the client (i.e. create & map a new LUN, copy all data over from the client, unmap & delete old LUN) [*]

To avoid this in the future, always create your LUNs with 2TB size and immediately resize them down to your desired size. In that case the initial size (2TB) will be used for the geometry and everything will be fine.

-Michael

[*] There is an undocumented way to change the LUN geometry which would allow you to resize it even further, but in that case you have to be absolutely sure that nothing on that LUN uses the old C/H/S addressing scheme but only LBA. Otherwise you will lose data.

[ASHWANI8HIGHS]

What about creating a new lun and then using ndmpcopy for data transfer  .

[Darkstar]

I don't understand your question. ndmpcopy works on WAFL level, not on the filesystem inside the LUNs.

Or do you mean installing an open source ndmp copy tool inside the client and using that to transfer the data? In that case it would be easier to simply use robocopy (Windows) and/or rsync (Linux/Unix)

[N_ANDREEV]

Thanks for sharing this. I'm lucky I haven't started the migration yet. DataMotion won't help me here either, will it?