How to move a vfiler from one volume to another within the same filer?

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MultiStore/vFiler
Data ONTAP 7 and earlier

Answer

You can use snapmirror (volume SnapMirror® (VSM) or qtree SnapMirror® (QSM)), ndmpcopy to move the vfiler unit from source to destination with in the same filer as below:

Original Vfiler configuration is as below:

fas3020cl1> vfiler status -r

vf1 running ipspace: default-ipspace IP address: 10.61.84.32 [unconfigured] Path: /vol/org/qt [/etc] UUID: 908bd298-0d18-11de-9592-00a09809694e fas3020cl1>

Here the vfiler named vf1 resides on path /vol/org/qt.

In order to move this vfiler vf1 to a different volume, follow the below steps:

qtree snapmirror /vol/org/qt /vol/new/qt
Note: The destination qtree name should be same as the original. Later we will change the destination volume name as the original as well.
Vfiler stop vf1
vfiler destroy vf1
vol rename org old
vol rename new org
vfiler create vf1 -r /vol/org/qt.
vfiler run vf1 setup

For example:

fas3020cl1> vfiler status -r vfiler0 running ipspace: default-ipspace IP address: 10.61.84.30 [e0a] Path: / [/etc] UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

vf1 running ipspace: default-ipspace IP address: 10.61.84.32 [unconfigured] Path: /vol/org/qt [/etc] UUID: 908bd298-0d18-11de-9592-00a09809694e fas3020cl1>

fas3020cl1> vol create new aggr0 1g

fas3020cl1> snapmirror initialize -S /vol/org/qt /vol/new/qt <<< Make sure the destination qtree name is same as source.

fas3020cl1> snapmirror quiesce /vol/new/qt

fas3020cl1> snapmirror break /vol/new/qt

fas3020cl1> vfiler stop vf1 <<< This step stops the vfiler running on original volume/qtree

fas3020cl1> vfiler destroy vf1 <<< This step destroys the vfiler running on original volume/qtree

fas3020cl1> vol rename org old <<< Change the original volume to something else.

fas3020cl1> vol rename new org <<< Change the new volume to vfilers original volume name.

Now recreate the vfiler unit vf1 to run from the newly created volume as below:

fas3020cl1> vfiler create vf1 -r /vol/org/qt Sun Mar 8 02:54:45 GMT [fas3020cl1: cmds.vfiler.info:notice]: vFiler unit vf1 restored. vf1 running ipspace: default-ipspace IP address: 10.61.84.32 [unconfigured] Path: /vol/org/qt [/etc] UUID: 908bd298-0d18-11de-9592-00a09809694e Protocols allowed: 7 Allowed: proto=rsh Allowed: proto=ssh Allowed: proto=nfs Allowed: proto=cifs Allowed: proto=iscsi Allowed: proto=ftp Allowed: proto=http Protocols disallowed: 0 The etc configuration directory for vfiler "vf1" is /vol/org/qt/etc. The IP addresses of vfiler "vf1" are still unconfigured. To use these addresses, you must configure them using the setup command. You can also manually configure addresses with the ifconfig command and make those settings persistent by adding the ifconfig command lines to /etc/rc. fas3020cl1> Sun Mar 8 02:54:45 GMT [fas3020cl1: cmds.vfiler.info:notice]: vFiler unit vf1 initialized.

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Note: Most vfiler configurations will have more than one volume or qtree path as their resource. In such cases, the vfiler assign should be performed to move those resources from the hosting vfiler0 to this vfiler upon recreating the vfiler.

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