Working with Logical

Storage
Volumes and Storage Virtual
Machines
Overvie
w Flexible Volumes
Storage Virtual Machines
Namespaces and Junction Paths
Moving Volumes
Rehosting Volumes
 Flexible
Volume

Logical Space Full Provisioned or

in Thin Provisioned
Aggregate

Create Mount Online Grow

and and and and
Delete Unmount Offline Shrink
 Flexible
Volume n1_aggr
1 1TB

100GB
400GB

No volumes: 100GB volume: 400GB volume:

1TB 900GB 500GB

available available available

 Collections of
Volumes
Volumes can live in any A single volume
Data-aggregate in the cluster cannot span
aggregates

Namespace
 Storage Virtual
Machine
Creation of Volume
needs a Storage SVM needs a
1GB root-
Virtual Machine 1G volume
B

NFS and SMB Mount volume using

need mounted a Junction-Path
volumes

Namespace of SVM-BLUE
Demo Creating Flexible volumes
- Create a Storage Virtual Machine
- Create a volume in the
namespace
- Mount a volume
- Unmount a volume
- Offline a volume and delete it
 Command
vserver create –vserver
s
svm_blue –rootvolume root_vol –aggregate n1_aggr1

volume create –vserver svm_blue –volume blue_data1 –size 5G \

–aggregate n1_aggr1

volume mount –vserver svm_blue –volume blue_data1 –junction-path /data1

vol unmount –vserver svm_blue –volume blue_data1

vol offline –vserver svm_blue –volume blue_data1

vol delete –vserver svm_blue –volume blue_data1

Moving and Rehosting
Volumes
 Moving a
n1_aggr1 Volume n2_aggr1

Initiate Destination Data is

the is created replicated
move
 Moving a
n1_aggr1 Volume n2_aggr1

Original
Initiate Destination Data is
the is created replicated volume
move
deleted
 Moving a
n1_aggr1 Volume n2_aggr1

Original
Initiate Destination Data is
the is created replicated volume
move
deleted
 Rehosting a
svm_blue Volume svm_red
Namespace Namespace

Blue_vol

Unmount the Rehost

volume the
volume
 Rehosting a
svm_blue Volume svm_red
Namespace Namespace

Blue_vol

Unmount the Rehost No data

volume the is
volume moved!
Demo
Moving and Rehosting Volumes
- Move a volume to a different
aggregate
- Rehost a volume
 Command
s
vol move start -vserver svm_blue -volume blue_data1 \
-destination-aggregate svm_red

vol rehost –vserver svm_blue –volume blue_data1 \

–destination-vserver svm_red