toasters February 2009

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Netapp and VMware... It's all so confusing!
by Timothy Hollingworth 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

So, say for example, I want to virtualize an Exchange server. Lets also say that I want to manage it via Snapdrive and SME. Lets also say, just for the heck of it, that I want both the new front-engined Acura NSX as well as the Porsche RC3. The cars aside, I would have to run iSCSI from within the VM, install and use Snapdrive from within the VM to provision LUNs, install Exchange and then use SME? It seems kind of silly to use iSCSI from within a VM if the ESX box were fiber attached to the Filer, just to be able to use Snapdrive and SME, no? I would love to be able to use the features of SD and SME within a completely virtual environment and am wondering what some real world implementations other VMware/Netapp customers are running. Do you run storage for the databases and logs in VMDK's and manage snapshots and backups from a VMware virtual machine perspective or do you manage them as iSCSI LUNs and use SD and SME? Or am I completely blind and missing something? Timothy L. Hollingworth Sr. Network Engineer, ePlus Technology Inc. 678.462.6698 (cell) AIM: HollingworthTim YIM: t_holling

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Ontap 7.2.6 is under investigating
by Kappe, Michael 17 Apr '09

17 Apr '09

Hi, after Announcing Ontap 7.2.6 a few days ago, now it is not downloadable from the NOW-Page. Anyone know whats happend? Regards Michael

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How to determine how new (yet to be installed) systems FC ports are configured?
by Romeo Theriault 01 Mar '09

01 Mar '09

Hello all, We have a 3050 cluster that we will be upgrading to a 3170 cluster soon. Our 3050 cluster uses the onboard fiber channel ports 0c and 0d as targets. I'm wondering if the 3170 will use these same ports as targets or if it comes preconfigured with some other set of ports as targets? I know you can specify if you want a port as a target or an initiator with the fcadmin command but would like to avoid the step in the upgrade process if their was some way for me to tell which ports it was going to use as targets ahead of time. Thanks for any help. -- Romeo Theriault System Administrator Information Technology Services

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NetApp & Portable Home Dirs (OS X)
by Jeff Bryer 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

We have been providing networked home directories to our AD Windows users off a NetApp for a number of years. Now we are looking at extending that to our OS X users and running into some issues. If we use network home dirs, OS X (10.5.x) and CIFS direct to the filer everything semms to work fine (the OS X clients and the filer are all in AD). The problem comes when we try to use portable home directories, which is where the OS X client has a local copy of the home dir and syncs to the filer. We have no problems if it is syncing to an OS X server over AFP or to a Windows server over CIFS. If we go direct to the filer over CIFS, any files deleted on the OS X client are not properly tracked such that when it syncs back to the filer the files reappear (instead of being deleted from the filer). There are also library files which fail to sync. When we remove the filer as the storage all the problems go away. We've tested against 7.2.4 and 7.3. Anyone tried to use Portable Home Dirs with NetApp storage? -- Jeff Bryer bryer(a)sfu.ca Systems Administrator (778) 782-4935 IT Infrastructure, Simon Fraser University

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RE: cifs shortcut question
by Parisi, Justin 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

Yes, exactly. I misread the question thinking that he wanted a different name. That's what I get for trying to multitask. :) -----Original Message----- From: George, Andrew [mailto:Andrew.George@anz.com] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 4:23 PM To: Parisi, Justin; Bill Holland; Chaim Rieger; toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: RE: cifs shortcut question Wont that just change the hostname part of he UNC path so \\servername\sharename becomes \\aliasname\sharename ? -----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Parisi, Justin Sent: Friday, 27 February 2009 8:00 AM To: Bill Holland; Chaim Rieger; toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: RE: cifs shortcut question Not true. You can use a netbios alias: https://now.netapp.com/Knowledgebase/solutionarea.asp?id=ntapcs1857 http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/ontap/rel7251/html/ontap/filesa g/accessing/task/t_oc_accs_creating_NetBIOS_aliases.html -----Original Message----- From: Bill Holland [mailto:hollandwl@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 3:54 PM To: Chaim Rieger; toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Re: cifs shortcut question You can't CIFS naming paths are \\servername\sharename ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chaim Rieger" <lists(a)up-south.com> To: <toasters(a)mathworks.com> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 3:28 PM Subject: cifs shortcut question > path to cifs share is > \\irfl2.company.corp\irfiles > > however i want it to be mounted via > > \\irfiles > > > how do i go about doing this ? > > irfiles.company.corp is in dns already > > -- > -- > Chaim Rieger > "This e-mail and any attachments to it (the "Communication") is, unless otherwise stated, confidential, may contain copyright material and is for the use only of the intended recipient. If you receive the Communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, delete the Communication and the return e-mail, and do not read, copy, retransmit or otherwise deal with it. Any views expressed in the Communication are those of the individual sender only, unless expressly stated to be those of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited ABN 11 005 357 522, or any of its related entities including ANZ National Bank Limited (together "ANZ"). ANZ does not accept liability in connection with the integrity of or errors in the Communication, computer virus, data corruption, interference or delay arising from or in respect of the Communication."

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cifs shortcut question
by Chaim Rieger 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

path to cifs share is \\irfl2.company.corp\irfiles however i want it to be mounted via \\irfiles how do i go about doing this ? irfiles.company.corp is in dns already -- -- Chaim Rieger

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Do fcp/iscsi nodenames change on a cluster head upgrade?
by Romeo Theriault 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

Hello All, We are in the process of planning for an upgrade of a FAS3050 cluster in single_image cfmode to a FAS3170 cluster which will also be in single_image cfmode. We have a few questions remaining: * Do the iscsi nodenames change with a head upgrade? If yes, will this require us to change the iscsi nodename to the old systems for the iscsi clients to be able to seamlessly reconnect to the SAN after the upgrade? * Does the FCP nodename change with the head upgrade? If yes, will it require us to change it back to the original systems for seamless reconnecting of clients? * Do the lun serial's change with a head upgrade and does this affect clients in any way? Thank you for any insight into this. -- Romeo Theriault System Administrator Information Technology Services

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Netapp CPU types
by Willeke, Jochen 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

Hi toasters, i am wondering if anybody has an official overview of netapps controller hardware, and espacially the CPU types. I found different sources telling me different things. e.g. i found an article on wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetApp_Filer) saying that the FAS6040 is one die with dual-core. A poster from netapp states that it has two single-core dies. Can anybody sched some light onto this?? My biggest interesst is how the FAS6040 compares to the FAS6030. Regards Jochen -- WINCOR NIXDORF International GmbH Sitz der Gesellschaft: Paderborn Registergericht Paderborn HRB 3507 Gesch�ftsf�hrer: Eckard Heidloff (Vorsitzender), Stefan Auerbach, Dr. J�rgen Wunram Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Karl-Heinz Stiller Steuernummer: 339/5884/0020 - Ust-ID Nr.: DE812927716 - WEEE-Reg.-Nr. DE44477193 Diese E-Mail enth�lt vertrauliche Informationen. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese E-Mail irrt�mlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und vernichten Sie diese E-Mail. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe dieser E-Mail ist nicht gestattet. This e-mail may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorised copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden.

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VMware on Netapp and snapshot
by Sayla, Mustafa 24 Feb '09

24 Feb '09

We are using Netapp as our backend for vmdk files on a NFS volume with de-duplication enabled. I am keeping two weeks worth of snapshots. Currently there are two NFS volumes, 4 ESX host server and about 60 guest servers. We are adding about 2 -3 virtual servers a week. What I am noticing that snap shot is taking a lot of space. I have set the reserve to 30% but it is taking about 35% per volume. Couple of times it has happened that a snap shot will happen during the day and the volume will be almost out of space and then VM guest will go offline as there is no log space to write. Once we clear space the guest machines come back on line. Is this normal for a VM storage volume to take up so much space in snap shot? We are getting almost 50% gain by doing deduplication which is pretty good. Any suggestion is appreciated. Mustafa Sayla Visit us on the Web at: http://www.mesirowfinancial.com This communication may contain privileged and/or confidential information. It is intended solely for the use of the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are strictly prohibited from disclosing, copying, distributing or using any of this information. If you received this communication in error, please contact the sender immediately and destroy the material in its entirety, whether electronic or hard copy. Confidential, proprietary or time-sensitive communications should not be transmitted via the Internet, as there can be no assurance of actual or timely delivery, receipt and/or confidentiality. This is not an offer, or solicitation of any offer to buy or sell any security, investment or other product. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.

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ESX FCP host utilities
by ifstat 24 Feb '09

24 Feb '09

Hi & Thanks for the support you're about to give =) NETAPP is a FAS3050C: netapp1 and netapp2 I've installed the ESX FCP host utilities 5.0R1, successfuly but the configuration fails WARNING: The installation process was unable to login to all the connected NetApp storage system(s) due to improper credentials: Please specify the correct credentials for the following controller(s): netapp1 The script was unable to determine the correct settings for your configuration. After the proper credentials have been determined, run the following commands: /opt/netapp/santools/config_hba --configure --access <controller>:<password> So I enter the following command since were not using SSL ./config_hba --configure --access netapp1:1234 and gives me the following: WARNING: The installation process was unable to login to all the connected NetApp storage system(s) due to improper credentials: Please specify the correct credentials for the following controller(s): netapp2 when replace netapp1 with netapp2 the error message changes below from netapp2 to netapp1, confusing hey. We allocated storage to the ESX server from both node netapp nodes. Any ideas on what i should do i already have a case open 2000474215 for those with access. Thanks again -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/ESX-FCP-host-utilities-tp22179474p22179474.html Sent from the Network Appliance - Toasters mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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toasters February 2009