toasters August 2008

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How to correctly transfer disk between cluster heads without initiating autosupport/RMA?
by Borzenkov, Andrey 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Hi, We have FAS920c DOT 7.0.6 with software based ownership and need to rearrange disks between heads. This works, but every time I remove disk ownership it complaints about lost spare which in turn sends autosupport and NetApp starts RMA to replace "broken" disk :) Tue Aug 12 16:30:07 MSD [xxx: diskown.changingOwner:info]: changing ownersh ip for disk 8a.16 (S/N 3HW1K6A8000074230VKD) from xxx (ID xxx) to unowned (ID -1) Tue Aug 12 16:30:07 MSD [xxx: raid.config.spare.disk.missing:info]: Spare Disk 8a.16 Shelf 1 Bay 0 [NETAPP X273_S15K3073F15 NA08] S/N [3HW1K6A8000074230VKD] is missing. Tue Aug 12 16:30:57 MSD [xxx: asup.smtp.sent:notice]: Cluster Notification mail sent: Cluster Notification from xxx (SPARE DISK MISSING) WARNING kb12834 actually shows the same warning, so I presume it is normal? Any workaround short of disabling autosupport during this work? Thank you! С уважением / With best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüβen --- Andrey Borzenkov Senior system engineer

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IBM 3500 Library commands from Nearstore R200
by Robert K. Borowicz 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

I've just added a SAN based IBM 3500 (with 3592 EO5 drives in it) to my Nearstore R200 running 7.2.4. I now see a changer "mc0" on the filer. I'd like to test the datapath to the drive from the filer and run a filer dump command, but the IBM guys say there is no way to mount a tape via their web interface. (I have yet to configure the changer in Tivoli) Is there autochanger commands in OnTap ? I want to mount a tape via OnTap. I don't see any reference in the Data Protection Guide.... TIA -Bob

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Testing autosupport (not doit)
by Nicholas Bernstein 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Does anyone know of a method to test autosupport notifications (sent to netapp) via https post? Options autosupport.doit only tests via mail apparently. I've got a student who's filer isn't sending out notifications and I wanted to have him kick of a test. Thanks in advance, Nick -- Nicholas Bernstein Technologist, Consultant, Instructor http://nicholasbernstein.com

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Re: Snapdrive 6 windows/vmware
by Holloway, Chris 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

We saw something similar with the same setup, the service wouldn't start during the install. We got round it by logging on as the snapdrive service account and installing it whilst logged on as that (I an assuming you've set up your service account with the right permissions etc as covered in the snapdrive admin guide). HTH Cheers Chris Sent from my BlackBerry. ----- Original Message ----- From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com <owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com> To: list toasters <toasters(a)mathworks.com> Sent: Tue Aug 12 17:27:59 2008 Subject: Snapdrive 6 windows/vmware We're trying to make Snapdrive 6 work on windows 2003 in a vmware guest OS environment with data on FC. We're getting Error 1920 (service won't start). Anyone run into these issues? Thanks Suresh -------------------------------------------------------- Christopher Holloway Lead Consultant Professional Services Main: +44 (0)1423 519000 Direct: +44 (0)1423 519099 Mobile: +44 (0)7867 783584 Fax: +44 (0)1423 504415 Effective from 1st August 2008, please contact our Virtualisation Sales Team by emailing virtualisation(a)dnsarrow.co.uk for any sales related enquiries or quotations. Please visit www.dnsarrow.co.uk/contactus for all other enquiries or contact your Account Manager on 0800 983 2525. Our Terms and Conditions have changed. To view our new Terms and Conditions and for more information about the changes, please visit www.dnsarrow.co.uk/Ts&Cs DNS Arrow Nidderdale House Beckwith Knowle Harrogate HG3 1SA www.DNSarrow.co.uk Email Confidentiality Notice: This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify us and remove it from your system. "DNS Arrow" means Digital Network Services (UK) Limited, a company registered in England. Company Registration Number 3952678. Registered Office: Nidderdale House, Otley Road, Beckwith Knowle, Harrogate HG3 1SA, UK.

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RE: [SUMMARY] Automatically delete snapshots based on number and not space availability
by Daniel Keisling 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

Thanks for all the quick responses. The available solutions are a) Snapvault b) Protection Manager c) Scripting, which I chose to do (using snapdrive): $SD snap create -hostvol $DB_DEVICE -snapname snap.0.tmp if [ $? -eq 1 ] then echo "Snapshot creation returned non-zero errorlevel!" exit 1 fi $SD snap delete $SYSTEM:/vol/$NA_VOL:snap.$RETENTION while [ $RETENTION -gt 0 ] do ((TMP_RET=$RETENTION-1)) $SD snap rename $SYSTEM:/vol/$NA_VOL:snap.$TMP_RET snap.$RETENTION ((RETENTION=$RETENTION-1)) done $SD snap rename $SYSTEM:/vol/$NA_VOL:snap.0.tmp snap.0 I would love if the filer's 'snap autodelete' could have the functionality in the future. Daniel ________________________________ From: Daniel Keisling Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 10:14 AM To: 'toasters(a)mathworks.com' Subject: Automatically delete snapshots based on number and not space availability Greetings, I take a daily snapshots (named ss-YYYYMMDDHHmm) of several volumes on my filers. I would like to automatically delete the oldest snapshot (assuming it's not busy) when a certain number of snapshots are present in the volume (ie, only keep the latest 3 snapshots). Is this possible? If not, does anyone have any scripts where it can be done from a host? TIA, Daniel ______________________________________________________________________ This email transmission and any documents, files or previous email messages attached to it may contain information that is confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient or a person responsible for delivering this transmission to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you must not read this transmission and that any disclosure, copying, printing, distribution or use of this transmission is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately notify the sender by telephone or return email and delete the original transmission and its attachments without reading or saving in any manner.

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X282B-R5 drives supported on FAS3020?
by Michael Schipp 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

Hi all, Anybody know if Netapp X282B-R5 500GB Drives are supported in a DS14 connected to a FAS3020? I can only see these drivers listed as supported on a FAS2020. Thank you, Michael A Schipp Solutions Architect 8 Lord Street Botany NSW 2019 Email: mschipp(a)asi.com.au<mailto:mschipp@asi.com.au>

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vol autosize setting?
by Romeo Theriault 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

Is there a way to tell 'vol autosize' when it should jump to the next incremental increase. From my tests it look like it increases the volume size to the next increment when the volume reaches around 85% full. Is there a way to change that to say 90 or 95% full? Thanks -- Romeo Theriault

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Automatically delete snapshots based on number and not space availability
by Daniel Keisling 06 Aug '08

06 Aug '08

Greetings, I take a daily snapshots (named ss-YYYYMMDDHHmm) of several volumes on my filers. I would like to automatically delete the oldest snapshot (assuming it's not busy) when a certain number of snapshots are present in the volume (ie, only keep the latest 3 snapshots). Is this possible? If not, does anyone have any scripts where it can be done from a host? TIA, Daniel ______________________________________________________________________ This email transmission and any documents, files or previous email messages attached to it may contain information that is confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient or a person responsible for delivering this transmission to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you must not read this transmission and that any disclosure, copying, printing, distribution or use of this transmission is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately notify the sender by telephone or return email and delete the original transmission and its attachments without reading or saving in any manner.

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Re: Automatically delete snapshots based on number and not space availability
by Davies,Matt 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

If you have snapdrive installed, then you can use the snapdrive CLI to create the snap from the host. The other options are rsh or ssh to the filer to create the snapshot. Cheers Matt ----- Original Message ----- From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com <owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com> To: Stephen C. Losen <scl(a)sasha.acc.virginia.edu> Cc: toasters(a)mathworks.com <toasters(a)mathworks.com> Sent: Tue Aug 05 17:38:00 2008 Subject: RE: Automatically delete snapshots based on number and not space availability Everyone is assuming that the NetApp will be taking the snapshots, which is incorrect. I must do the snapshots from the host side in order to quiesce the filesystem (actually, the database). My databases run on LUNs over FCP. I do not want to try and coordinate the databases on the host being quiesced at the same time the filer will automatically take the snapshot. Daniel -----Original Message----- From: Stephen C. Losen [mailto:scl@sasha.acc.Virginia.EDU] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 11:01 AM To: Daniel Keisling Cc: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Re: Automatically delete snapshots based on number and not space availability > Greetings, > > I take a daily snapshots (named ss-YYYYMMDDHHmm) of several volumes on > my filers. I would like to automatically delete the oldest snapshot > (assuming it's not busy) when a certain number of snapshots are present > in the volume (ie, only keep the latest 3 snapshots). Is this possible? > If not, does anyone have any scripts where it can be done from a host? > > TIA, > > Daniel Any reason you can't use the "snap sched" command for this? snap sched volname 0 3 0 This takes a snapshot at midnight and keeps at most 3. If midnight isn't suitable you can configure the hourly option to take one hourly per day and keep 3. Suppose you want 18:00 snap sched volname 0 0 3@18 Steve Losen scl(a)virginia.edu phone: 434-924-0640 University of Virginia ITC Unix Support ______________________________________________________________________ This email transmission and any documents, files or previous email messages attached to it may contain information that is confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient or a person responsible for delivering this transmission to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you must not read this transmission and that any disclosure, copying, printing, distribution or use of this transmission is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately notify the sender by telephone or return email and delete the original transmission and its attachments without reading or saving in any manner. _____________________________________________________________ This e-mail (including all attachments) is confidential and may be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please erase all copies of the message and its attachments and notify us immediately at help(a)generalatlantic.com <mailto:help@generalatlantic.com>. Thank You.

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Re: Automatically delete snapshots based on number and not space availability
by Davies,Matt 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Sorry only read part of the email. Hope the folowing helps What I do is using the snapdrive CLI is something along the following lines. Delete snapshot "snapshot5" Rename snapshot "snapshot4 to snapshot5" Rename snapshot "snapshot3 to snapshot4" Rename snapshot "snapshot2 to snapshot3" Rename snapshot "snapshot1 to snapshot2" Snapshot create snapshot1 Thanks Matt ----- Original Message ----- From: Daniel Keisling <daniel.keisling(a)austin.ppdi.com> To: Davies,Matt; scl(a)sasha.acc.virginia.edu <scl(a)sasha.acc.virginia.edu> Cc: toasters(a)mathworks.com <toasters(a)mathworks.com> Sent: Tue Aug 05 17:55:02 2008 Subject: RE: Automatically delete snapshots based on number and not space availability I create snapshots all day long using snapdrive. My question is how to automatically delete snapshots based on the _number_ of snapshots and not space availability (which is what the autodelete setting uses), when those snapshots are taking from the host (ie, snapdrive or regular rsh/ssh command). Daniel -----Original Message----- From: Davies,Matt [mailto:MDAVIES@generalatlantic.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 11:51 AM To: Daniel Keisling; scl(a)sasha.acc.virginia.edu Cc: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Re: Automatically delete snapshots based on number and not space availability If you have snapdrive installed, then you can use the snapdrive CLI to create the snap from the host. The other options are rsh or ssh to the filer to create the snapshot. Cheers Matt ----- Original Message ----- From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com <owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com> To: Stephen C. Losen <scl(a)sasha.acc.virginia.edu> Cc: toasters(a)mathworks.com <toasters(a)mathworks.com> Sent: Tue Aug 05 17:38:00 2008 Subject: RE: Automatically delete snapshots based on number and not space availability Everyone is assuming that the NetApp will be taking the snapshots, which is incorrect. I must do the snapshots from the host side in order to quiesce the filesystem (actually, the database). My databases run on LUNs over FCP. I do not want to try and coordinate the databases on the host being quiesced at the same time the filer will automatically take the snapshot. Daniel -----Original Message----- From: Stephen C. Losen [mailto:scl@sasha.acc.Virginia.EDU] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 11:01 AM To: Daniel Keisling Cc: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Re: Automatically delete snapshots based on number and not space availability > Greetings, > > I take a daily snapshots (named ss-YYYYMMDDHHmm) of several volumes on > my filers. I would like to automatically delete the oldest snapshot > (assuming it's not busy) when a certain number of snapshots are present > in the volume (ie, only keep the latest 3 snapshots). Is this possible? > If not, does anyone have any scripts where it can be done from a host? > > TIA, > > Daniel Any reason you can't use the "snap sched" command for this? snap sched volname 0 3 0 This takes a snapshot at midnight and keeps at most 3. If midnight isn't suitable you can configure the hourly option to take one hourly per day and keep 3. Suppose you want 18:00 snap sched volname 0 0 3@18 Steve Losen scl(a)virginia.edu phone: 434-924-0640 University of Virginia ITC Unix Support ______________________________________________________________________ This email transmission and any documents, files or previous email messages attached to it may contain information that is confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient or a person responsible for delivering this transmission to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you must not read this transmission and that any disclosure, copying, printing, distribution or use of this transmission is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately notify the sender by telephone or return email and delete the original transmission and its attachments without reading or saving in any manner. _____________________________________________________________ This e-mail (including all attachments) is confidential and may be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please erase all copies of the message and its attachments and notify us immediately at help(a)generalatlantic.com <mailto:help@generalatlantic.com>. Thank You. ______________________________________________________________________ This email transmission and any documents, files or previous email messages attached to it may contain information that is confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient or a person responsible for delivering this transmission to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you must not read this transmission and that any disclosure, copying, printing, distribution or use of this transmission is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately notify the sender by telephone or return email and delete the original transmission and its attachments without reading or saving in any manner.

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