If you move disks from a system using software-based disk ownership to one using hardware-based disk ownership without taking the appropriate steps, you can inadvertently cause the target system to start using software-based disk ownership.
Considerations
Accidental conversion to software-based disk ownership can occur in the following circumstances:
- You neglect to remove software-based disk ownership information from the target disks before you remove them from their original storage system.
- You add the disks to a target storage system that does not use software-based disk ownership while the target storage system is off.
Under these circumstances, if you boot the target storage system in normal mode, the remaining disk ownership information causes the target storage system to convert to a misconfigured software-based disk ownership setup. It will fail to boot.
Steps
- Boot the system into maintenance mode
For more information, see the System Administration Guide.
- In maintenance mode, enter the following command:disk remove_ownership all
The software-based disk ownership information is erased from all disks.
- Return the storage system to normal mode.
