Tagged Questions
-1
votes
1answer
82 views
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 ...
3
votes
1answer
367 views
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 ...
2
votes
1answer
277 views
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 ...
0
votes
2answers
290 views
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 ...
0
votes
2answers
244 views
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 ...
1
vote
1answer
279 views
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 ...
3
votes
3answers
930 views
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, ...
0
votes
2answers
4k views
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, ...
0
votes
3answers
542 views
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 ...
6
votes
3answers
12k views
Maximum Number of Files in a Single Directory for Netapp NFS mounts on Linux
On an older Linux box I have, there is an NFS mount of a Netapp. Once there are 100k files in a single directory on this box, files can no longer be written. Anyone know what might be causing this? ...
9
votes
9answers
9k views
Block-level deduplication on Linux
NetApp provides block-level deduplication (ASIS). Do you know any filesystem (even FUSE-based) on Linux (or OpenSolaris, *BSD) that provides the same functionnality ?
(I'm not interested in false ...
