Administering vFiler unit resources from the hosting storage system

Managing vFiler unit storage from the storage system

As the physical storage system administrator, if you need to manage storage resources that belong to a vFiler unit, but you do not have administrative access to the vFiler unit, 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.

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

After you have done what you need to do, you can either move the storage resources back to the vFiler unit or, if you destroyed the vFiler unit, restore the vFiler unit.

Restoring a vFiler unit

To restore a vFiler unit, complete the following step.

Step	Action
1	Enter the following command: vfiler create oldname -r oldfirstpath oldname is the name of the original vFiler unit. oldfirstpath is the first path that was specified in the original `vfiler create` command that created the vFiler unit. For more information about the `vfiler create` command, see the na_vfiler man page.

Step

Action

Enter the following command:

vfiler create oldname -r oldfirstpath

oldname is the name of the original vFiler unit.

oldfirstpath is the first path that was specified in the original vfiler create command that created the vFiler unit.

For more information about the vfiler create command, see the na_vfiler man page.