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Disabling automatic drive assignment (if doing manual assignment in ONTAP 9.4)

In ONTAP 9.4, if your MetroCluster IP configuration has fewer than four external storage shelves per site, you must disable automatic drive assignment on all nodes and manually assign drives.

About this task

This task is not required in ONTAP 9.5 and later.

Considerations for automatic drive assignment and ADP systems

Disable automatic drive assignment: storage disk option modify -node node_name -autoassign off

You need to issue this command on all nodes in the MetroCluster IP configuration.