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What considerations should be made before moving a volume?

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  • If you are upgrading the release family for a cluster, do not move a volume until after you upgrade all of the nodes in the cluster.

    This recommendation prevents you from inadvertently attempting to move a volume from a newer release family to an older release family.

  • The source volume must be consistent.

  • If you have assigned one or more aggregates to the associated storage virtual machine (SVM), the destination aggregate must be one of the assigned aggregates.

  • You cannot move a volume to or from a taken-over CFO aggregate.

  • If a volume that contains LUNs is not NVFAIL enabled before you move it, the volume will be NVFAIL enabled after you move it.

  • You can move a volume from a Flash Pool aggregate to another Flash Pool aggregate.

    • The caching policies of that volume are also moved.

    • The move might affect volume performance.

  • You can move volumes between a Flash Pool aggregate and a non-Flash Pool aggregate.

    • If you move a volume from a Flash Pool aggregate to a non-Flash Pool aggregate, ONTAP displays a message warning you that the move might affect volume performance and asks whether you want to continue.

    • If you move a volume from a non-Flash Pool aggregate to a Flash Pool aggregate, ONTAP assigns theauto caching policy.

  • Volumes have the data-at-rest protections of the aggregate they reside on. If you move a volume from an aggregate that consists of NSE drives to one that does not, the volume no longer has NSE data-at-rest protection.

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