Administering vFiler resources from the hosting filer

Managing vFiler storage from the filer

If you, as the physical filer administrator, need to manage storage resources that belong to a vFiler, but you do not have administrative access to the vFiler, you can do one of the following:

Note
Before taking either of the following actions, unmap any LUNs that have been created in the affected storage resources. For instructions, see the Block Access Management Guide for iSCSI.

Temporarily move the resources to the hosting filer (but you cannot move the vFiler's primary /etc volume).
Temporarily destroy the vFiler.
This returns ownership of all resources to the hosting filer. No user data is modified when you destroy a vFiler.

Once you have done what you need to do, you can either move the storage resources back to the vFiler or, if you destroyed the vFiler, restore the vFiler using the vfiler create oldname -r oldfirstpath command.

oldname is the name of the original vFiler and oldfirstpath is the first path that was specified in the original vfiler create command that created the vFiler. See the na_vfiler man page for more information.