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[NETAPP]How to to change Aggregation Raid Type ?

You can change the Aggregate Raid Type, here let's change aggr1 raid type from Raid-DP to other raid type. the Raid Group size will also changed accordingly. In this example we will change aggr2 from Raid-DP to Raid-4, you will see that the Raid Group size changed from 16 to 8.

1. First check the aggregate status:

fas01> aggr status aggr2 -d

Device HA SHELF BAY CHAN Disk Vital Product Information

---------- --------------- ----- ------------------------------

v4.32 v4 2 0 FC:B 75461613

v4.33 v4 2 1 FC:B 75461614

v4.34 v4 2 2 FC:B 75461615

v4.35 v4 2 3 FC:B 75461716

v4.36 v4 2 4 FC:B 75461717

v4.37 v4 2 5 FC:B 75461718

fas01> aggr status aggr2

Aggr State Status Options

aggr2 online raid_dp, aggr

Volumes: vol2

Plex /aggr2/plex0: online, normal, active

RAID group /aggr2/plex0/rg0: normal

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2. Next change the raid type using aggr options aggr2 raidtype raid4

fas01> aggr options aggr2 raidtype raid4

Sun Aug 30 20:47:37 GMT [raid.config.raidsize.change:notice]: Aggregate aggr2: raidsize is adjusted from 16 to 8 after changing raidtype

Aggregate aggr2: raidsize is adjusted from 16 to 8 after changing raidtype.

fas01>

fas01> aggr status

Aggr State Status Options

aggr2 online raid4, aggr

aggr1 online raid_dp, aggr

aggr0 online raid0, aggr root

fas01> df -Am

Aggregate total used avail capacity

aggr0 256MB 244MB 12MB 95%

aggr0/.snapshot 13MB 0MB 13MB 0%

aggr1 684MB 258MB 425MB 38%

aggr1/.snapshot 36MB 0MB 36MB 0%

aggr2 342MB 50MB 291MB 15%

aggr2/.snapshot 18MB 0MB 18MB 0%

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