Re: hardware or software based disk ownership?

On 2020-07-07 20:51, Rue, Randy wrote:
> We're currently running two SVMs, each with its own aggregate, one one 
> each node of a FAS8020 cluster running 9.1P6 (I know, I know).

Conceptually, SVMs do not own aggregates. SVMs can generally use
resources from all over the cluster.  For aggregates, you can restrict
that with the "aggr-list" property of the vserver object.

> When I try to add a new volume to one SVM I can only see one aggregate 
> but I'd like to put that volume on the other aggr.

That's probably the aggr-list property then.  You can modify that list
with the vserver modify command:

vserver modify -vserver Vserver_name -aggr-list aggr_name[, aggr_name]

> How can I tell if I'm running HW or SW based ownership?

That won't be the issue. HW-based disk ownership has been deprecated in
the 7.3 days, IIRC, and ONTAP 9 doesn't support it at all anymore.

> To confirm, if I was running SW based should I be able to use either 
> aggr on either SVM?
> 
> And last, is there any way to change from HW to SW without tearing it 
> all up?

As mentioned above, irrelevant.

Hope that helps,
Oliver