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NetApp FC Configuration
Here's what we have currently:
FAS2020HA Filers
HP 1/8 Auto Tape Drive
FilerA is connected to the tape drive via a single strand of fiber.
We're thinking of switching from NFS to FC, and I'm not ...
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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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Cannot add FlexClone VMDK to VM
I have a virtual machine called VM-A with two VMDK's on volume VOL-A. Call these VMDK-1 (system) and VMDK-2 (data). I want to clone VMDK-2 and attach that clone to VM-A as a new disk, but I'm getting ...
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netapp - memory usage?
I am currently writing a perl script for cricket. It uses the NetApp API.
I almost got all the statistical data i needed, but i did not find any performance counters to match the memory usage. Also, ...
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FAS2020 Expansion - Licensing/Maintenance concerns
We've got a dual filer FAS2020 that we're looking to add disk to. My first concern is if we purchase used equipment(IE: a DS14MK4 shelf w/ 14 144 FC drives) will that upset NetApp with regard to our ...
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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.
Source Destination ...
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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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NetApp Max Directory Size File, Subdirectories or both?
If I redistribuite (using subdirectories) the files in a directory that is close to the Max Directory Size, can I workaround the problem?
It is not clear if the limitation is the total number files ...
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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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Snapshot is busy because of unknown
When trying to delete a snapshot on our NetApp using this command:
snap delete home_backup Aug-27
results in this message:
Snapshot Aug-27 is busy because of unknown
Other snapshots are deleted ...
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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 ...
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Can NAS from NetApp and EMC Celerra manage tiered storage?
My question is short, and I probably do not now enough about this to be able to ask a really good question, so let me know if you need any additional information to help me out.
Here goes;
does NAS ...
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FAS 270 not seeing disks
I recently converted a FAS 250 controller into a disk shelf and attahced it to a FAS 270, initilized the disks also but unfortunately the disk owners has not changed and remains the same as previous, ...
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NetApp and SQL Server?
Do you have any good or bad experiences to share running SQL Server OLTP Systems on NetApp appliances? I have been working with a small, relatively low-volume cluster with a lower-end NetApp device, ...
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hardware for bulding unified storage solution using nexentastor
looking to build a box for holding 5 to 8 TB of storage using nexentastor OS. without using commercial solutions like netapp.
my current list is:
Intel Xeon
8GB of RAM
RAID controller with 256MB ...
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Which Storage administration course will be better?
I am working as a Linux admin. I would like to do a course in storage administration.
Which should be the better certification path for me IBM tivoli or netapp ?
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NetApp FAS270 head doesn't see disks
I have an FAS270C. For months, I've been running it in a split-head manner (that is, with each head serving data totally independently, and without any clustering even being enabled) in order to ...
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kill -9 doesn't work
I have a server with 3 oracle instances on it, and the file system is nfs with netapp. After shutdown the databases, one process for each database doesn't quit for a long time. Each kill -i doesn't ...
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Does enabling SMB2 on a NetApp filer require a cifs restart?
I would like to enable SMB2 on a FAS 2050 running Data ONTAP 7.3.2 as by default it is disabled.
I have discovered that to enable SMB2 the following option must be set:
options cifs.smb2.enable on
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Heartbeat (Linux HA) and NetApp?
Does anyone have any experience setting up a high availability two node Linux cluster using heartbeat (linux-ha.org) and NetApp storage (preferably using SnapDrive for Linux)?
Basically I would like ...
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Oracle on NFS vmdk beats native NFS?
my colleagues are pursuing this with Netapp and Oracle - but I thought I'd post here on the off chance someone else has seen this
We have a RedHat 5 VM (fully up to date) running Oracle 11i with data ...
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Is there a way to create a consistent snapshot/SnapMirror across multiple volumes?
We use a NetApp FAS 6-series filer with an application that spans multiple volumes. For backup purposes I would like to create a consistent snapshot that spans these volumes at the same point in time ...
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Proper Steps to Shutdown NetApp FAS 3020 with Shelves?
I have a netapp with several shelves that is going to have to be moved. Various servers have NFS mounts from it. What is the proper procedure to shut it down and start it up? I would guess shutting ...
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Open NetApp CIFS Share
I have a CIFS share on a NetApp device. I want this share to be completely open to any user/computer on the same network. I don't want any authentication (domain, workgroup, etc) required; no ...
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NETAPP Fragmentation
We all know that once a disk (or storage system for that matter) gets introduced into use, the performance degrades due to fragmentation of files. This seems to be why disk defragmentors are in ...
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iSCSI connection timing out on ESX 3.5 against a NetApp storage appliance
I get a timeout on iSCSI on different ESX hosts (3.5) at different times. It is puzzling, as both the ESX hosts as windows and other guests are experiencing timeouts.
The iSCSI network is segregated ...
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Any ideas for automatic initial/scripted configuration of a NetApp?
The background is to make a solution where we can automate as much as possible the building up of ‘pods’ that include server/network/storage and that will be built at remote sites.
In an ideal world ...
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Netapp ONTAP 7.3 - Upgrade gotchas?
So ONTAP 7.3.2 just became GD.
Has anyone taken the plunge -- GA or GD alike?
What platform are you running?
What are your licensed features -- NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, FC, Multistore, API, etc?
Any ...
