Best procedure to move fs to another pool on celerra

Hi,

if you are not comfortable with the CLI usage I would suggest to use the One-Time-Copy option for Replicator in the GUI – which does the same

after you have done the copy either adjust your exports/shares or mount the new file system on the same mountpoint that the old one was.

Rainer

By some reason copy option in GUI is grayed out. The only option i see is nas_copy.

do you have a Replicator license?

Did this Celerra previously run Replicator V1 on 5.5 code by chance?

Maybe the license is not enabled in Celerra Manager ?

Yes. V2.

Actually I take my previous post back as the NS-G8 was not supported in 5.5

typically a greyed out option in the GUI means that the license is not enabled. Are all Replicator actions greyed out in the GUI?

You may want to run nas_license -l to see if the replicationV2 license is enabled.

An example output would look like this:

[nasadmin@ns20cs ~]$ nas_license -l
key                      status    value
site_key               online    4b ba 3a c9
advancedmanager online
cifs                      online
nfs                       online
iscsi                     online
snapsure              online
replicatorV2          online

You can also verify in Celerra Manager.

Is the file system you want to move already being replicated?

That would be a reason the copy option would be greyed out.

advancedmanager     online
nfs                 online
cifs                online
iscsi               online
snapsure            online
replicatorV2        online
filelevelretention  online

If its being replicated you would have to configure the replication again from the the new fs which probably causes a full copy again

ReplicatorV2 Licensed: is checked n grayed out in celerra manager.

Ohh yes, its being replicated to DR.

So the procedure would be

1. Stop the replication

2. Copy locally

3.Start replication again

So much easier to do it with nas_copy ..take a look at the manual.