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Convert a FlexVol volume to a FlexGroup volume within an SVM-DR relationship

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Beginning with ONTAP 9.10.1, you can convert a FlexVol volume to a FlexGroup volume on an SVM-DR source.

What you'll need

  • The FlexVol volume that is being converted must be online.

  • The operations and configurations on the FlexVol volume must be compatible with the conversion process.

    An error message is generated if the FlexVol volume has any incompatibility, and the volume conversion is cancelled. You can take corrective actions and retry the conversion. For more details, see Considerations for converting FlexVol volumes to FlexGroup volumes

Steps

  1. Login using advance privilege mode: set -privilege advanced

  2. From the destination, update the SVM-DR relationship:

    snapmirror update -destination-path <destination_svm_name>: -source-path <source_svm_name>:
    Note

    You must enter a colon (:) after the SVM name in the -destination-path option.

  3. Ensure that the SVM-DR relationship is in a SnapMirrored state and is not broken-off:

    snapmirror show

  4. From the destination SVM, verify that the FlexVol volume is ready for conversion:

    volume conversion start -vserver <svm_name> -volume <vol_name> -check-only true

    If this command generates any errors other than "This is a destination SVMDR volume," you can take the appropriate corrective action, run the command again, and continue the conversion.

  5. From the destination, disable transfers on the SVM-DR relationship:

    snapmirror quiesce -destination-path <dest_svm>:
    Note

    You must enter a colon (:) after the SVM name in the -destination-path option.

  6. From the source cluster, start the conversion:

    volume conversion start -vserver <svm_name> -volume <vol_name>

  7. Verify that the conversion is successful:

    volume show <vol_name> -fields volume-style-extended,state
    cluster-1::*> volume show my_volume -fields volume-style-extended,state

vserver  volume     state    volume-style-extended
-------  ---------  ------   ---------------------
vs0      my_volume  online   flexgroup

  8. From the destination cluster, resume transfers for the relationship:

    snapmirror resume -destination-path <dest_svm>:
    Note

    You must enter a colon (:) after the SVM name in the -destination-path option.

  9. From the destination cluster, perform an update to propagate the conversion to the destination:

    snapmirror update -destination-path <dest_svm>:
    Note

    You must enter a colon (:) after the SVM name in the -destination-path option.

  10. Ensure that the SVM-DR relationship is in a SnapMirrored state and is not broken off:

    snapmirror show

  11. Ensure the conversion occurred on the destination:

    volume show <vol_name> -fields volume-style-extended,state
    cluster-2::*> volume show my_volume -fields volume-style-extended,state

vserver  volume     state   volume-style-extended
-------  -------    ------  ---------------------
vs0_dst  my_volume  online  flexgroup