If a system is using software-based disk ownership, and it supports hardware-based disk ownership, you can convert the system to use hardware-based disk ownership.
Considerations
Attention: Do not use this procedure for systems in an active/active configuration.
Steps
- If you are using SyncMirror, use the disk show command to determine whether your physical cabling conforms to the pool rules for your system.
- If you found discrepancies between the software ownership and the physical cabling configuration, note those discrepancies and what disks or HBAs you need to move or recable to conform to the hardware-based pool rules.
Note: Do not make any changes to your cabling configuration yet.
- Boot the system into maintenance mode.
For more information, see the section on booting the storage system in the System Administration Guide.
- Enter the following commands to disable software-based disk ownership:storage release disksdisk remove_ownership all
- If you determined previously that any cabling or configuration changes needed to be made to conform to the pool rules, make those changes now.
- Boot the system into normal mode and verify your configuration using the aggr status -r command.
Data ONTAP will automatically recognize and assign disks.
