Can I Increase the Size a 7-Mode Volume that is in Transition without Needing to Re-Baseline?

The best way to answer the question is via a simple lab.

This lab has already been used for previous transitions from 7-Mode to Clustered ONTAP.

Primary 7-Mode System:

N7A01> version

NetApp Release 8.1.2P4 7-Mode: Fri Apr 26 19:57:25 PDT 2013

Secondary Clustered ONTAP Cluster:

PRICLU1::> version

NetApp Release 8.2.1 Cluster-Mode: Fri Mar 21 14:25:07 PDT 2014

And we’re using 7MTT v1.2

7-Mode Transition Tool>transition version

NetApp Release 7-Mode Transition Tool 1.2: Fri Mar 28 07:51:50 GMT 2014

Create a volume on 7-Mode:

N7A01> vol create vol1 -s none aggr1 2g

Setup transition with 7MTT CLI:

transition credentials add -h N7A01 -u root

transition credentials add -h PRICLU1 -u admin

transition create -s N7A01_vol1 -t primary -n N7A01 -c 10.10.10.101 -h PRICLU1 -v PRICLU1V1 -d hourly

transition volumepair add -s N7A01_vol1 -v vol1 -c vol1 -g aggr1

transition precheck -s N7A01_vol1

transition start -s N7A01_vol1 -n

Verify the status of the SnapMirror on the Clustered ONTAP destination:

PRICLU1::> snapmirror show

                                                                       Progress

Source            Destination  Mirror  Relationship  Total             Last

Path        Type  Path         State   Status        Progress  Healthy Updated

----------- ---- ------------ ------- -------------- --------- ------- --------

10.10.10.101:vol1

            TDP  PRICLU1V1:vol1

                              Snapmirrored

                                      Idle           -         true    -

And the volume size:

PRICLU1::> volume size vol1 -vserver PRICLU1V1

vol size: Volume "PRICLU1V1:vol1" has size 2g.

Thet’s increase the size of the 7-Mode volume:

N7A01> vol size vol1 3g

vol size: Flexible volume 'vol1' size set to 3g.

Now perform a SnapMirror Update on the Clustered ONTAP destination:

PRICLU1::> snapmirror update -destination-path PRICLU1V1:vol1

Operation is queued: snapmirror update of destination "PRICLU1V1:vol1".

Wait for the SnapMirror Update to complete then check health:

PRICLU1::> snapmirror show

                                                                       Progress

Source            Destination  Mirror  Relationship  Total             Last

Path        Type  Path         State   Status        Progress  Healthy Updated

----------- ---- ------------ ------- -------------- --------- ------- --------

10.10.10.101:vol1

            TDP  PRICLU1V1:vol1

                              Snapmirrored

                                      Idle           -         true    -

The relationship is healthy! Excellent! What’s the size of the Clustered ONTAP volume now:

PRICLU1::> volume size vol1 -vserver PRICLU1V1

vol size: Volume "PRICLU1V1:vol1" has size 3g.

The volume has resized on the secondary Clustered ONTAP cluster in line with the size increase on primary 7-Mode system!

Can I Increase the Size a 7-Mode Volume that is in Transition without Needing to Re-Baseline? Yes

Completing the migration with 7MTT:

7-Mode Transition Tool>transition complete -s N7A01_vol1

[1/8] Complete prechecks [Warnings]

[2/8] Performing a final copy update from the 7-Mode volumes to Cluster-Mode volumes [Ok]

[3/8] Breaking and deleting SnapMirror relationships between the 7-Mode and Cluster-Mode volumes [Ok]

[4/8] Collecting configuration from the 7-Mode system [Ok]

[5/8] Translating 7-Mode configurations for the Cluster-Mode environment [Ok]

[6/8] Applying configurations to the Vserver and its volumes [Ok]

[7/8] Establishing SnapMirror relationships between the primary and secondary Cluster-Mode volumes [Ok]

[8/8] Taking the 7-Mode volumes offline [Ok]

Operation summary:

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The 'complete' operation is completed with warnings.

 0 Errors - No action required

 1 Warnings - Need your attention!

23 Informational messages

If you’re curious to see what the 1 warning was, it’s nothing to do with having resized the volume mid-transition from 7-Mode to Clustered ONTAP:

1 Warnings:

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20993: Checking whether to transition CIFS configuration from the 7-Mode storage system [Warning]

'vfiler0@N7A01'. CIFS configuration will not be transitioned if the security style of all the volumes(and the qtrees inside the volumes) selected for transition is UNIX and if the volumes(and the qtrees inside the volumes) are not serving data to CIFS clients.

> CIFS configuration will not be transitioned from the 7-Mode storage system 'vfiler0@N7A01' because the security style of all the volumes(and the qtrees inside the volumes) selected for transition is UNIX and the volumes(and the qtrees inside the volumes) are not serving data to CIFS clients.