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ONTAP 7-Mode Transition

Commands for managing transition

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You can use the transition cbt command to manage functions, such as creating, modifying, deleting, and displaying transition projects.

The following option can be used with all commands:

-r no: Disables the interactive nature of the command. By default, this option is enabled.

You can also use the -v option, which enables the verbose mode, with the transition version and transition cbt menu commands.

Commands to manage transition operations

If you want to…​ Use this command…​

Create a transition project

transition cbt create

Add the cluster information to the given project

transition cbt add-cluster-info

Modify a transition project

transition cbt modify

Complete the transition to an ONTAP storage system

transition cbt cutover

Run precheck on the project

transition cbt precheck

Apply the configurations to an ONTAP storage system

transition cbt precutover

Trigger the SnapMirror resynchronization between the 7-Mode volumes and ONTAP volumes in the project

transition cbt resync

Trigger the SnapMirror update operation for the ONTAP volumes

transition cbt update

Display the version of 7-Mode Transition Tool

transition cbt version

Start baseline data copy from the 7-Mode volumes to ONTAP volumes in a project

transition cbt start

Pause data copy from the 7-Mode volumes to ONTAP volumes in a project

transition cbt pause

Resume data copy transfers from the 7-Mode volumes to ONTAP volumes of a paused project

transition cbt resume

Abort a transition project

transition cbt abort

Delete a transition project

transition cbt delete

Display the list of transition projects or display information about a project

transition cbt show

Commands to manage volume SnapMirror relationships

If you want to…​ Use this command…​

Add information about a 7-Mode primary system to a secondary project

transition cbt add-primary-seven-mode-system `

CBT : How to provide all the required primary 7-Mode details for a given secondary project

Add information about an ONTAP secondary system to a primary project

transition cbt add-secondary-cluster-mode-system

CBT: How to add the required secondary cluster details to the primary project

Remove information about a 7-Mode primary system from a secondary project

transition cbt remove-primary-seven-mode-system

Remove information about an ONTAP secondary system from a primary project

transition cbt remove-secondary-cluster-mode-system

List the 7-Mode primary systems added to a secondary project

transition cbt show-primary-seven-mode-systems

List the ONTAP secondary systems added to a primary project

transition cbt show-secondary-cluster-mode-systems

Commands to manage credentials of Data ONTAP systems

If you want to…​ Use this command…​

Save credentials (user name and password) of a host in the transition server

transition credentials add

Retrieve user name of a host

transition credentials get

Modify the user name or password of a host

transition credentials modify

Delete credentials of a host from the transition server

transition credentials remove

Commands to manage the volume pairs in a project

If you want to…​ Use this command…​

Add the 7-Mode volume and the ONTAP volume (volume pair) to a project

transition cbt volumepair add

Modify the ONTAP volume of a project

transition cbt volumepair modify

Remove a volume pair from a project

transition cbt volumepair remove

List volume pairs in a project

transition cbt volumepair show

Commands to manage LIF details

Note FC and iSCSI LIFs are not transitioned by the 7-Mode Transition Tool.
If you want to…​ Use this command…​

Add anSVM data LIF to a project

transition cbt lif add

Modify anSVM data LIF of a project

transition cbt lif modify

Remove LIFs from a project

transition cbt lif remove

List all the LIFs added to a project

transition cbt lif show

Commands to manage project properties

If you want to…​ Use this command…​

Set value for a specific project property

transition cbt property-set

Clear the value of a specific project property

transition cbt property-reset

Get the value of a specific project property

transition cbt property-get

Commands to manage transition jobs

If you want to…​ Use this command…​

List jobs that ran or are running on the given project and operation

transition jobs

View the status of a job

transition job-status

View the results of a job

transition job-results

Commands to manage transition schedules

If you want to…​ Use this command…​

Add a schedule to manage SnapMirror transfers along with bandwidth

transition cbt schedule add

Modify a SnapMirror schedule of the project

transition cbt schedule modify

Remove the SnapMirror schedules from the project

transition cbt schedule remove

List all the SnapMirror schedules in a project

transition cbt schedule show

Command to collect tool logs

If you want to…​ Use this command…​

Collect the log files of 7-Mode Transition Tool Logs are saved on the server in the asup directory of the 7-Mode Transition Tool installation path.

transition bundle-tool-logs

For more information about these commands, see the man pages for the 7-Mode Transition Tool CLI.

Related information

Migrating data and configuration from 7-Mode volumes