APIs in Category: wafl
 7-Mode API version 1.15

 
wafl-sync

NetApp Manage ONTAP
 
wafl-sync [top]

Forces a WAFL consistency point (CP) in order to reduce the time for succeeding fence and snapshot related operations. In Data ONTAP 7-Mode this call is synchronous and will not return until the CP has completed. In Data ONTAP Cluster-Mode this API is asynchronous and will return immediately as soon as the CP is scheduled. The wafl-get-sync-status API can be used to check status of the previously scheduled CP. Two uses of this API are
  • to predict how fast a successive consistency group based operation will finish,
  • to improve performance of succeeding consistency group primitives.
Input Name Range Type Description
volumes volume-name[]
optional
A list of volume names to take a CP on. In Data ONTAP 7-Mode, the CP operation will be performed on all the volumes on the controller if no volumes are specified. In Data ONTAP Cluster-Mode, "volumes" is a required input and all specified volumes must belong to the same Vserver. If an error is encountered when processing the sync request for a volume, the operation is aborted and sync operation will not be performed on the rest of the volumes specified.
 Errno  Description
 EINTERNALERROR
 EINVALIDINPUTERROR
 Vfiler-enabled
 Yes

 
Element definition: volume-name [top]
The name of a volume. The maximum string length is 256 characters.
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