what is Netapp raid group and how its working..?

These are type of disks in filler

DISK TYPE	RAID-DP	RAID4
ATA/BSAS/SATA                        Maximum	16	7
FC/SAS                         Maximum	28	14
ATA/BSAS/SATA                             Default	14	4
FC/SAS                          Default	16	7
ATA/BSAS/SATA                         Minimum	3	2
FC/SAS                       Minimum	3	2

Only Example for RAID DP: 

> aggr creare aggr1 –t raid_dp –r 7 17

-t : for selecting raid type (raid4 or raid DP)

-r  : for select (how many disk want to be in one raid group)

17 meant for  :  17 disk for aggr1

Consider you are using SATA Disk with RAID DP,

In SATA Disk

16 disks is the maximum in one raid group,

7 disks is default in one raid group and

 3 Disks is Minimum to create NETAPP Raid group.

This is the recommended in Netapp.

After this command executed 3 raid groups will be created cause we mentioned ( –r 7 in command)so it will take 7 disk for one raid group(rg).

17 disk - 7 disk = 10 disk  -----> rg0
10 -7 = 3  -----> rg1

3- 3 = 0 -----> rg2 (here we having 3 balance disks its less than 7 disks, so it will calculate accordingly and create another raid group as rg2 with 3 disks, cause In RAID DP minimum is 3 disk )

Another example in RAID DP If balance disk is 3 disk means i will create another raid group that already i explained above, If suppose its  less than 3 disks remains means, two disk or one disk, That  balance disk will  moved to spare disks.


Only Example for RAID4 :

> aggr creare aggr1 –t raid4 –r 5 16

-t : for selecting raid type (raid4 or raid DP)

-r  : for select (how many disk want to be in one raid group)

16 meant for  :  16 disk for aggr1

Consider you are using SATA Disk with RAID 4,

In SATA Disk

16 disks is the maximum in one raid group,

4 disks is default in one raid group and

2 Disks is Minimum to create NETAPP Raid group.

This is the recommended in Netapp.

After this command executed 3 raid groups will be created cause we mentioned ( –r 5 in command)so it will take 5 disk for one raid group(rg).

16 disk - 5 disk = 11 disk  -----> rg0
11 -5 = 6  -----> rg1

6- 5 = 1 -----> rg2

Its  less than 5 disks, so that  balance 1 disk will  moved to spare disks.

So in this example aggr1 having 15 disk..

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32 bit aggregate to 64 bit aggregate Migration

32 bit aggregate to 64 bit aggregate Migration

Data ONTAP 7-Mode 8.1 and later

Identify 32-bit aggregates and run a check to see if the volumes are sufficient:

  filerA> priv set advanced
  filerA*> aggr status

Perform the upgrade with add disks:

  filerA> priv set advanced
  filerA*> aggr status

  filerA*> aggr add aggr1 -64bit-upgrade normal 12 ( 12 is number of disks)

Perform the upgrade with-out add disks::

  filerA> priv set advanced
  filerA*> aggr status

  filerA*> aggr 64bit-upgrade status aggr1 -all



Another way to 32 to 64 bit


If there is any existing aggregate in 32bit.
just create one aggregate with 64 bit
Create one the Volume in the 64 bit aggregate.
Then migrate all the old volume to the new Volume through NDMP protocol.

Fas > aggr create aggr2 -b 64 15(No of disks)

Fas > aggr status aggr2

Fas > vol create vol2 aggr2 100g

Fas > ndmpd on

Fas > ndmpd –l 0 –f /vol/vol1 /vol/vol2



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