Creating new root volume on NetApp F740

[timstoel]

I have just acquired a NetApp F740 with 6 DS9 shelves loaded with 36gb drives. However, the root volume is no longer there, so the system doesn't boot. What do I need to do to reinstall the software? Thanks for your help. Tim

 

[RMGBELGIUM]

Do you need to recover the data on all shelves ? If not : boot into maintenance mode, and select to zero disks and create traditional volume.After that , you will have a root volume on your filer, but you should install the ontap version again,because java will most likely not work ( for filerview ).

rgds,

R.

 

[xmsre]

What ontap version did you plan on putting on it? You could just as easily put three of the disks in a RAID DP group in an aggregate and create a root vol from there. There's no specific reason for the root vol to be on a trad vol.

 

[ravashaak]

There are no Data ONTAP 7.x releases for the F740. Therefore you cannot implement aggregates and flexvols since they were not introduced until ONTAP 7.0 However, on a system where a 7.x release was available, I'd go with a 3-disk raid-dp root volume.

 

[xmsre]

Yup, that's my mistake. 6.5.7 is GA for the 740.
Starting with the FAS8XX you can go to 7.0.X