How to move a volume from one aggregate to another on a NetApp

How to move a volume from one aggregate to another on a NetApp

Upon occasion, you may want to move a volume from one set of disks to another.  Luckily, in Data ONTAP 8 and above, you can do this online...with the one caveat - only for block storage volumes.  That means, if your volume is shared via NFS or CIFS, you cannot move it online - you must first remove the NFS export and/or stop the CIFS share.

To actually move the volume type:

NETAPP-CLI> vol move start <volumename> <aggrname>

This is a background process, and you can check on it periodically by doing the following:

NETAPP-CLI> snapmirror status

or

NETAPP-CLI> vol move status

If it finished, and you want to see when it finished, review the system log

NETAPP-CLI> rdfile /etc/messages