You want to DOD wipe the drives with disk sanitization if you are sending them off to asset disposal. install the disk sanitization license and then run this command disk sanitize start -c 7 (enter disk list here) the number 7 is the number of passes.. After You Finish You can monitor the status of the sanitization process by using the /etc/sanitized_disks and /etc/sanitization.log files: Status for the sanitization process is written to the /etc/sanitization.log file every 15 minutes. The /etc/sanitized_disks file contains the serial numbers of all drives that have been successfully sanitized. For every invocation of the disk sanitize start command, the serial numbers of the newly sanitized disks are appended to the file. This process could take a week or more depending on number of passes. Do not turn off the system while you are doing this. once you sanitize, you will never get the data back ever, so make sure you do this on the right disks.
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Please provide whate type of controllers and version of ontap. Also, are you running netapp MPIO software on your clusters? I'm not familiar with falconstor, but perhaps someone else can assist
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How do you plan on taking the old hardware out of service? You can't simply disconnect shelves. Vol move is better for LUNS If you need to migrate the data to new volumes, what's wrong with snapmirror to a new volume
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You mean you are moving to another controller? What does need to move volume to another aggregate to retire hardware. I assume another controller. Please clarify then we can help
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This doesn't make sense to me. Are you creating the vfiler on same controlller. If you are, then you should be prompted for an error b/c that vfiler already exists Vfiler "vfiler_test" already exists.Vfiler "vfiler_test" already exists Vfiler vfiler_test not created
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This can be all automated via powershell and netapp powershell toolkit. If you are not familiar with powershell for netapp, I would suggest you read up on it
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Ok, if you need credentials to connect to your controller, I can give you that snippit of code... Also, my controller input is in .csv.. Look at the import.csv and the title is controllers. The firmware is 100% showing fine for IOM Modules. YOu need both A and B...
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Ben, Relax, it's not hard, you just need to learn how to navigate the communities and click "start new discussion" Ok, Back to disk issue... Interesting issue.. Try to fail it
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disk remove_ownership isn't available in priv set mode? if you run storage show does sanown not enabled show at the bottom of the system? if it does, you don't have software disk ownership enabled.
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