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Setting up a NetApp as a simple FC LUN carver
For a particular application, I want to configure a NetApp filer (7-mode) to be as close as possible to an old-fashioned storage subsystem without snapshots or fancy features.
vol create vol_ESX -s ...
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NetApp - right configuration for vSphere environment
I'm thinking now about buying a NetApp for my vSphere environment (use NetApp NAS features).
I'm looking for a solution that will give me at least 6000IOPS, and i need about 15TB of storage. I thought ...
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NetApp - set specific trap for disk full errors
I am on the monitoring side of a group of 20 NetApp filers that send their snmp alerts to dfm 4 and from there to my monitor's snmp trap collector. For simplicities sake we will split them into two ...
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I have a Netapp that I want to backup for off site backup/DR [closed]
We use mixed CIFS and NFS volumes and I want to run a single backup server that copies all of the files from the NetAPP to local disks that can be sent of site for backup/DR.
How would I configure ...
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NFS client has unbalanced read and write speeds
I've got a NetApp as my nfs server, and two Linux servers as the nfs clients. The problem is that the newer of the two servers has extremely differing read and write speeds whenever it is doing read ...
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Does LACP routing type have to be the same on all ends?
i was wondering if the routing mechanism for LACP (source / destination MAC, source+destination MAC, source / destination IP, source+destination IP) has to be the same within
one LACP trunk* between ...
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Query NetApp with snmpget/snmpwalk
I have loaded the NetApp MIB file onto a linux server and I am able to snmpwalk the management interface. However, with the MIB loaded I only seem to see results that are prefixed with either RFC1213 ...
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NetApp Flex Volumes (Flexible Volumes)
I have an aggregate with a 150 GB Flexible volume with a 3 TB capacity and a growth increment of 10 GB. If I want to Copy 1.5 TB of data to the volume, it tells me there is not enough disk space. ...
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Folder Showing up as a File when viewed via Samba on a NetApp
we want to change files on our NetApp file server, and on every change of these files - a Debian machine duplicates the files to two other shares.
Because of the duplication method we're using lsync, ...
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Enabling vscan on Netapp Filer
I want to enable vscan on my Netapp Filers. I have 2 filers dealing with different type of user data. I am presently using Sophos Endpoint Security v10 on my windows based machines and managing the ...
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Have both domain and non-domain users use NetApp CIFS storage
My specific use case is that I have a NetApp CIFS storage that's in the domain, say, intranet.
But I also have one hyper-v host that's not in the domain. I can't allow it into the domain, but I need ...
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NetApp and Hyper-V 2012 best practice/whitepapers? [closed]
We've recently acquired a NetApp/Cisco UCS solution, and I'd like to gather some background knowledge as to the best practices when setting up Hyper-V 2012 on such a solution.
There is an upcoming ...
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Use web browser to launch windows applications [closed]
I'm look for some software (it may not exist yet) that would allow me to do something along the lines of: Install the software on a server, "package" and "publish" it similar to Windows Remote App, ...
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does XenCenter cache write operations to the VHD file?
I hope someone can help me with this issue. We have a database server running under XenCenter (VM is is a Windows machine). We have a backup agent for this database that ensures the data files are in ...
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snmp mib for netapp on debian squeeze
Trying to get cacti drawing graphs on our netapp, I downloaded NETWORK-APPLIANCE-MIB.mib from http://www.oidview.com/mibs/789/NETWORK-APPLIANCE-MIB.html and copied it into /usr/share/mibs/netsnmp/.
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Does anyone other than NetApp offer NetApp support? [closed]
For example, HP and IBM offer to give support to the competitor's products at a lowered price.
My situation is that the 16TB NetApp we have is fine, but the contract is about to expire and renewing a ...
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DFS: should I separate my home directories from my DFS root?
I am planning on setting up a DFS root to house all of our departmental shares, and I also plan on having Home directories that automatically mount through AD profile. We will be using a NetApp for ...
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NetApp NAS: How to enable encryption?
What are the commands to enable disk encryption on a NetApp NAS, can this be done per disk/array?
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Switch Netapp expansion FC port from target to initiator
I have a v3200 with a 4 port FC expansion card. I am trying to switch one (or all, doesn't matter) of those ports from target to initiator. When I execute fcadmin config, I get:
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FlexClone splitting in Netapp OnTap 7
I have a large volume containing only an NFS share I'd like to split up. 500GB of it (three specific subdirectories) needs to be put into a new volume. I'd like to avoid writing this data again. ...
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Xen virtualization NOT using a single centralized storage repo
I've been tasked with finding alternatives for storage VDIs and other underlying data in our Xen virtual machines. We currently use a NetApp filer cluster, but with the heads going EOL in December ...
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GETATTR issues with linux and netapp
We're having an issue with our linux systems connecting to our netapp via NFS. The read/write IOPS are only around 1000/s but the GETATTR calls are almost 10,000!
I found this bug ...
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File system for a lot of small files
I'm using NetApp device as a NAS storage. I have a lot of small files (30-60k) and dirs. For example I have: 30000 dirs with another 1000-2000 dirs.
A lot of dirs are empty, but most of them have ...
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Searching Netapp Network Share in Windows 7
Windows 7 famously does not do what its predecessor, Windows XP, did very well, index and search network drives! Sometimes, the logic of MS isd absolutely baffling.
That siad, I am trying to find ...
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How to not move permissions on fileserver file move
I have a problem with a NetApp file server with Windows XP clients.
The files are on a single SAN drive. The users regularly move files from \\storage\share to their personal folder at e.g. ...
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What would cause huge amounts of snapshot lag with NetApp Snapvault?
Our NetApp filer shows huge amounts of lag for snapvault operations. What could be possible causes of such large snapshot lag?
Snapvault is ON.
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Loading of Home taking too long
We have a shared storage from NetApp mounted onto about 80 systems (all running Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit). These days there is some problem with the loading of user homes onto the lab machines ...
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Netapp Fail Disks to upgrade to 64-bit agg0 with no free disks?
I have a client that I am configuring a NetApp system for, but they played around with the system before I got there and have already assigned all of the disks to the aggr0 which is a 32-bit ...
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Can NetApp's WAFL export snapshots to files?
An exact copy of a ZFS file system can be made with snapshots using zfs send/receive.
Can something similar be done with NetApp's WAFL, where you make a snapshot and export it to a file?
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How to backup NetApp storage on Linux? [closed]
Our NetVault license is about to expire within the next year, so what alternatives are there on Linux?
We have 20TB and many millions of files, so time on the backup window is important.
The backup ...
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load average from netapp filer
i'm currently trying to monitor the 5-min system load average from a netapp filer, via snmp or ontapi apis.
currently i'm running a cron job every 5 minutes and calculate the average percent, but i'm ...
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decipher acronyms for Netapp disk shelf configuration options
I want to know what is the meaning of -C and QS to understand the difference between these two disk shelf configurations:
DSK SHLF,24x450GB,15K,3Gb SAS,IOM3,-C,R5
DSK SHLF,24x450GB,15K,3Gb ...
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Very poor optimization: Riverbed-Test-Appliance and NetApp SnapMirror replication
We are actually testing Riverbed Steelheads in order to accelerate replication using SnapMirror between two sites.
The distance ist 100km between the sites.
Connection: 150Mbit MPLS Network
Systems: ...
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Netapp SMVI and SMSQL Backup strategies
Netapp VMWare Sql Server VM's using SMVI to backup OS and SMSQL to backup DB's Windows and generic data drive on one volume, SQL MDF's on another, SQL TempDB on another and SQL Logs and SMSQL SI on a ...
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NFS mounted on windows 7 authentication headache
I've got a NFS share on a Netapp and a laptop running windows 7 enterprise that needs to mount the volume. I've installed all the NFS services on windows 7, and am able to mount and browse the drive. ...
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SQL Server iSCSI session issue with a NetApp SAN
We had an issue early this morning when iSCSI issues broke connectivity with a few of our databases (resulting in a SQL Server Error 21). Attempts to DBCC CheckDB did not work, and the only solution ...
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NetApp FAS 2040 LDAP Win2k8R2
I am trying to get my FAS2040 to action user lookups using LDAP, below is the filer configuration options:
filer> options ldap
ldap.ADdomain dc1.colour.domain.local
ldap.base ...
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Oracle data warehouse on SAN. Is the throughput of > 400MB/s possible?
We are developing and deploying a data warehouse based on Oracle 11g EE with partitioning on RHEL5 64bit for a client.
The total storage required would be around 4TB of usable space.
I have been ...
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webmail postfix Maildir via netapp is very slow
I have postfix+courier mail server and I am using squirrelmail as webmail in another server. maildir dirs are in netapp server on fc disks. There is not other speed problem with other servers that ...
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User not functioning after backup and restore of database to another server in SQL Server 2005
We have a database called 'foo' on the first sql server instance called 'SQL01' that is backed up nightly via a snapshot with Snap Manager for SQL Server and then flex cloned and restored to a second ...
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Tuning based on DataOntap NetDiag
I have a IBM N-series 3700 (NetApp Filer) running data ontap 7.4. When I run netdiag I get:
The TCP receive window advertised by NFS client x.x.x.x is 5888.
This is less than the recommended value of ...
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Mapping Drive Error - System Error 1808
A vendor is attempting to map and preserve a network drive using nt authority/system; so it stays persistent when the interactive session of the server is lost. They were able to do this on one server ...
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Can I get “disk utilization” from a NetApp filer via SNMP?
On a NetApp filer's command line I'm running "sysstat -u" to show disk utilization, (actually the utilization of the single busiest disk). By disk utilization, I mean "percent of time the disk is ...
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NetApp Usable Capacity Magic
I'd like to know the exact math of how to calculate usable capacity on a NetApp filer's aggregates. Out of experience I've been using a magic factor of 0.65-0,7 times the net RG capacity of all the ...
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List shares and ACL's on NETAPP Vfiler
Does anyone know of a Powershell script that will list all shares and their ACL's on a NETAPP vfiler?
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NetApp NDMP backup with BE 2010 R2 works, restore fails
I'm having some issues with a new Backup Exec 2010 R2 installation. I configured a NetApp FAS2020 as an NDMP device and want to backup files from the SAN to a tape drive connected to my backup server. ...
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How can I rename and change the IP address of a Netapp Filer?
I have an old Netapp filer that I'm migrating all of the NTFS files off of to a new NAS.
I'm going to be setting the new NAS up with the same IP and CIFS server name as the old netapp filer. This ...
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Howto align partitions in Linux + NetApp
NetApp support has suggested us aligning partitions to improve performance, in short: starting sector must be divisible by 8. How can I move the start point in a misaligned partition -in production, ...
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NFS “Permission Denied” getting cached on NetApp Filer
We have a bunch of Linux boxes mounting NFS shares off a NetApp filer. From time to time, I will flub some part of the export configuration. Typo on one of the allowed hosts, incorrect IP address, ...
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I'm looking for a good database regrouping all NetApp products and solution
First Question: I would like to inform myself about NetApp, and I'm looking for a good, complete database where all products and solultions are regrouped, with their features and technical ...
