NFS - move FS from physical DM to VDM

There is no builtin move for this.

You just need to

- (Unless you have already done so) attach an interface to the VDM and check its config

- Unmount the fs from the DM – don’t forget the perm flag

- Mount fs on the VDM

- Create the NFS exports based on the VDM

- Remove the DM based export

See the NFS and VDM manuals for more details

The mount/umount’s you can do via the GUI – the VDM NFS export and config is CLI only

If you are doing this while in production test with a test file system first so that you have the order and config correct - otherwise you risk running into stale NFS file handles.

IF you have applications running from these NFS export you need to work out a procedure to keep the interface down while the NFS file handles aren’t valid.

Thanks Rainer_EMC

This is what i tried on a test FS name : testdin12

1) Unexported the NFS export of a FS mounted on physical datamover "server_2"

server_export server_2 -unexport perm pathname /testdin12

2) Unmounted FS on server_2

server_umount server_2 -perm /testdin12

3) Deleted the pathname

server_mountpoint server_2  -delete /testdin12

After that i created a vdm and named "test-vdm1" and i mounted the File System on that vdm and path name /testdin12

and now  NFS export of the file system was created using the below command

server_export test-vdm1 -o root=10.X.X.X,access=10.X.X.X,rw=10.X..X.X /testdin12

Issue : Not able to mount the FS on the server with path name /testdin12 , which is the mount point.

Need your guidance.

Thanks

did you specify protocol ?

-P nfs

Sounds like, you did not follow Rainers advice:

• -          "(Unless you have already done so) attach an interface to the VDM and check its config"

The command for this is:

nas_server  -vdm -attach

I think step 1 should have been

- Read the relevant sections of the VDM manual and the NFS manual to understand the feature

Dynamox,

yes i added the protocol,

server_export test-vdm1  -Protocol nfs -o root=10.X.X.X,access=10.X.X.X,rw=10.X..X.X /testdin12

sorry i missed it while typing.

can you post output from "server_df test-vdm1"   ..did you also try to attach the interface as recommended above ?

[nasadmin@CHE-INF-FILE01-CS0 ~]$ server_df test-vdm1

test-vdm1 :

I haven't attached an interface, i will create a new virtual interface and attache it to the vdm.