Changing from hardware-based to software-based disk ownership

If your storage system or active/active configuration is using hardware-based disk ownership, and it supports software-based disk ownership, you can reconfigure it to use software-based disk ownership.

Steps

1. Boot the storage system into maintenance mode.
   Note: If you are converting an active/active configuration to software-based disk ownership, you must convert both nodes at the same time. This requires downtime.

   For more information, see the System Administration Guide.

2. Enter the following command:disk upgrade_ownership

   The system is converted to use software-based disk ownership. In addition, Data ONTAP assigns all the disks to the same system and pool they were assigned to for the hardware-based disk ownership.

3. Halt the system and reboot to normal mode.