We have a NetApp R200 running DOT 7.3.3 that has bascially been sitting idle in a corner for far too long with old archived data on it. We are trying to migrate that data off to get rid of it by leveraging snapmirror and send it to one of our FAS2240-4 arrays running DOT 8.2.2. Our problem we are running into is the R200 had a trial license installed back in 2007/2008 when we migrated the data over to a FAS 3020. We left all the snapshots on the R200 though. Unfortunately, that trial license has expired and we cannot add a new trial license. i reached out to my rep who got me in touch with a SE at NetApp. they sent me a bunch of trial codes but i keep getting this error: Promotional license installation limit exceeded for snapmirror
NetApp says there is no way around it and that i will have to contact their Professional services team to assist. They cannot even get a new purchased snapmirror license because that array is EOL/EOS. I read somewhere that someone mentioned if you reinstall DOT on the box that it will clear the trial licenses and let you use a new trial license. Anyone comment on that? Will that work. if so, will the config/aggregates/volumes/data etc all stay intact or will they all be lost?
What other options do i have to migrate the data if snapmirror is a no go? It is about 10TB of data.
Feel free to ask any questions for things i did not mention.
thanks,
