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Why do volume names have (1) appended to the end of them after they are moved?

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  • ONTAP 9
  • Cluster Data ONTAP

Answer

If an existing volume is moved across aggregates within the same node by running the volume move command, the name of the moved volume will have a number such as (1) appended to the end of the volume name. This might affect personal naming conventions; however, this will not have any adverse effects on the system's operation.

There is a similar situation where the numbers will be added, at the node level, if different Vservers have the same volume name. If you have a CIFS Vserver with an "Engineering" volume and an NFS Vserver with an "Engineering" volume, and they are both on the same node, one of them would have a (1) appended to it from the node level, but from the cluster level (with a volume show), both would show "Engineering".

With a volume move, the volume can be renamed; however, the original volume is removed. In the case of the same name on multiple Vservers, the rename command will work, but it will append the number back.

volume rename -volume <volume_A> -vserver <Vserver_name> -newname <volume_newname>

Additional Information

The number within () is called name-ordinal of the volume. When the name-ordinal is base, then the node-volume-name is identical to the cluster shell volume-name.

::> set adv
Warning: These advanced commands are potentially dangerous; use them only when directed to do so by NetApp personnel.
Do you want to continue? {y|n}: y

::*> vol show -vserver svm1 -volume vol_moved -fields name-ordinal
vserver   volume        name-ordinal
--------- ------------- ------------
svm1      vol_moved     1

::*> node run -node local -command vol status vol_fp_moved
vol status: No volume named 'vol_moved' exists.

::*> node run -node local -command vol status vol_moved(1)
         Volume State           Status                Options
vol_moved(1)    online          raid4, flex           create_ucode=on, convert_ucode=on,
 

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