toasters February 2012

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Snapdrive failing to create a flexclone but only on Sundays. Works fine every other day of the week.
by Dan Finn 27 Feb '12

27 Feb '12

Long story short we have a clone of our production database that we refresh and remount on a linux server every night. This is a script that is being called from cron. We recently converted the server that runs this script from a physical server to a vmware vm. Since we have done that this refresh process has failed the past 3 sunday nights. It runs every single night and it runs without errors every other night. There's not much to the script, here's the command that creates the flex clone: snapdrive snap connect -lun log/disk disk_$LUN -snapname filer:/vol/database_volume/log/disk:$SNAPNAME them we mount the flex clone that is create via iSCSI. The error that is being reported by the script is: 385 connecting filer:/vol/database_volume/log/disk: 386 creating unrestricted volume clone filer:/vol/clone_volume ... failure 387 0002-098 Admin error: Failed to create volume clone clone_volume on filer filer : The volume is not currently available The error from the sd-trace.log: 173338 00:30:54 02/26/12 [f7f61b90]i,2,18,FilerZephyr::volume_clone_create: zapi filer root "" volume-clone-create parent-snapsho t daily-2012-02-26 parent-volume database_volume space-reserve none volume planningdb_rootdb_log 173339 00:30:54 02/26/12 [f7f61b90]i,2,18,FilerZephyr::volume_clone_create in = <volume-clone-create> 173340 <parent-volume>database_volume</parent-volume> 173341 <parent-snapshot>daily-2012-02-26</parent-snapshot> 173342 <volume>clone_volume</volume> 173343 <space-reserve>none</space-reserve> 173344 </volume-clone-create> 173345 173346 00:30:54 02/26/12 [f7f61b90]i,2,18,FilerZephyr::output in = <results reason="The volume is not currently available" statu s="failed" errno="13156"/> 173347 173348 00:30:54 02/26/12 [f7f61b90]E,2,18,FilerZephyr:: (filer) volume-clone-create failed, error: 13156: The volume is not currently available And then what's odd is if you look at the messages file on the filer, it's reporting as if the clone was successfully created: Sun Feb 26 00:29:28 MST [filer: wafl.snap.delete:info]: Snapshot copy 2012-02-24 07_00_27 daily_filer_database_volume.-.log on volume database_volume NetApp was deleted by the Data ONTAP function zapi_snapshot_delete. The unique ID for this Snapshot copy is (111, 4139408). Sun Feb 26 00:30:56 MST [filer: wafl.volume.clone.created:info]: Volume clone clone_volume of volume database_volume was created successfully. Sun Feb 26 00:30:56 MST [filer: lun.newLocation.offline:warning]: LUN /vol/clone_volume/log/disk has been taken offline to prevent map conflicts after a copy or move operation. Sun Feb 26 00:30:56 MST [filer: lun.map:info]: LUN /vol/clone_volume/disk was mapped to initiator group linux-server.domain.com_iscsi_SdIg=0 The only thing I'm wondering is if that zapi_snapshot_delete that is happening 1 second before could be causing an issue however I looked at the logs from the past sunday failure and that zapi_snapshot_delete did not happen at the same time so I'm not sure that's the issue. Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks, Dan

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bypassed disks - whats the deal?
by Fletcher Cocquyt 26 Feb '12

26 Feb '12

We've discovered a couple of these bypassed disk conditions via the flashing amber light - but this was noticed totally out of band with normal support Each time we opened a case manually and Netapp immediately sent out a disk replacement. So why is a bypassed disk not treated as a failed disk ? This kind of silent failure (in terms of Netapp monitoring and alerts) in a lights out datacenter seems negligent. Message logged on syslog server: esh.bypass.err.disk:error]: Disk 4d.49 on channels 4d/PARTNER disk shelf ID 3 ESH A bay 1 Bypassed due to the drive self bypass. BTW: I read the KB article on bypassed disks and ran the CMD to highlight BYP but it did not show BYP https://kb.netapp.com/support/index?page=content&id=3012395 thanks, Fletcher

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migrating vol0 (root) to new aggr
by Fletcher Cocquyt 23 Feb '12

23 Feb '12

Hola guru's I've done the steps to migrate vol0 from aggr0 to aggr1 from: https://communities.netapp.com/thread/11439 vol restrict newroot vol copy start -S root newroot vol online newroot vol options newroot root # aggr options root is from maintenance mode...when done here the aggregate containing newroot will become root since it has the root volume. vol status # confirm newroot is "diskroot" reboot vol status # confirm newroot is now root vol offline root vol destroy root vol rename newroot root -- and am about to reboot Is it necessary to do the aggr options aggr1 root Or only if on reboot ontap can't find the root vol0 on aggr1? thanks Fletcher

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scsi.cmd.abortedByHost:err
by Stuart Kendrick 23 Feb '12

23 Feb '12

Is this telling me that the HBA in the filer ('toaster-a') aborted the SCSI command? Or that the port on the back-end storage (a 3Par T800) aborted the command? Mon Jan 30 22:27:45 GMT [toaster-a: isp2400_intrd: *scsi.cmd.abortedByHost:err*]: Disk device 0a.0L2: Command aborted by host adapter: HA status 0x4: cdb 0x28:4d4dfc37:0009 --sk

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RE: upgrade a FAS980 with 10GB network cards possible?
by Bill Holland 22 Feb '12

22 Feb '12

The FAS30xx series do. It is a single port card. Sent from my Galaxy Nexus Kenneth Heal <kheal(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >Hi > >True, but there isn't a PCI-X 10gbE adapter supported in any model or version of ONTAP so I would doubt that ONTAP has a driver for it or that it would work. > >If anyone can prove me wrong I'd be keen to hear it. > >Sorry for not being more explicit. > >regards >Kenneth > >---------------------------------------- >> Subject: Re: upgrade a FAS980 with 10GB network cards possible? >> To: kheal(a)hotmail.com; toasters-bounces(a)teaparty.net; bormann(a)bbtel.de; toasters(a)teaparty.net >> From: jack1729(a)gmail.com >> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:21:19 +0000 >> >> If he is using a FAS980 - I doubt he is worried about it being supported >> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Kenneth Heal <kheal(a)hotmail.com> >> Sender: toasters-bounces(a)teaparty.net >> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:55:51 >> To: RenÃ© Bormann<bormann(a)bbtel.de>; <toasters(a)teaparty.net> >> Subject: RE: upgrade a FAS980 with 10GB network cards possible? >> >> >> Hello René >> >> I do not believe this is possible. Looking at the system configuration guides I don't see any supported 10gbE cards even for the FAS-3020 which also uses PCI-X slots. >> >> I believe the minimum hardware for 10 gbE would be a FAS-3040, which uses PCI-e. >> >> Servus, >> Kenneth >> >> ---------------------------------------- >> > Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:28:01 +0100 >> > From: bormann(a)bbtel.de >> > To: toasters(a)teaparty.net >> > Subject: upgrade a FAS980 with 10GB network cards possible? >> > >> > Hello Toasters, >> > >> > is it possible to use a 10GB network card in a FAS980 ? >> > >> > Cheers, >> > >> > René >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Toasters mailing list >> > Toasters(a)teaparty.net >> > http://www.teaparty.net/mailman/listinfo/toasters >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Toasters mailing list >> Toasters(a)teaparty.net >> http://www.teaparty.net/mailman/listinfo/toasters > >_______________________________________________ >Toasters mailing list >Toasters(a)teaparty.net >http://www.teaparty.net/mailman/listinfo/toasters

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stuck creating an aggregate?
by Randy Rue 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

Provisioning a half dozen new aggregates on a new 3240 and while most of them completed within seconds, two are stuck at "initializing." Can't offline them, destroy them, or do anything at all to them without getting an error about the operation not being permitted on an aggregate that's still being created. One of them has been in this state for an hour now. Any advice? Anything I can do to shake them loose? Or should I just go take a nap and hope for the best?

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upgrade a FAS980 with 10GB network cards possible?
by René Bormann 21 Feb '12

21 Feb '12

Hello Toasters, is it possible to use a 10GB network card in a FAS980 ? Cheers, René

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vFiler migration with flex-clones fails - Volume is a clone and scanners have not completed on the parent volume: cannot execute operation
by Fletcher Cocquyt 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

It takes almost 6 hours to run the initial snap mirror sync for this vFiler migration, and its failed twice with Waiting for SnapMirror-Resync to complete on 'dbdev2, dbdev5, dbdev7' flex-clones… then SnapMirror Resync failed: Reason: SnapMirror error: Volume is a clone and scanners have not completed on the parent volume: cannot execute operation Src and dest are 3270 clusters running 8.1RC2 This is the last remaining migration blocking our long awaited shelf upgrade - and we have a case open with Netapp Anyone seen this one and worked around it? Thanks, Fletcher

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FAS2240 and SSD
by Milazzo Giacomo 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

Hi all, expected for january 2012 there was the support to partially loaded DS4243 with 100 GB SSD units: 6 or 12. This was also reported in the "FAS2240 Technical questions" document by Chris Lueth. I'm trying to find some official doc that reports now this. Are these units really already supported on FAS2240? Regards Dott. Giacomo Milazzo [Descrizione: cid:image001.jpg@01C75422.0D316270] Technical Account Manager Sinergy SpA Filiale di Roma * 00198. viale Regina Margherita, 269 ' (+39) 3406001045 0644245272 7 (+39) 0226922048 * Giacomo.Milazzo(a)Sinergy.it

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Storage VLAN ID assignment strategies?
by Ray Van Dolson 18 Feb '12

18 Feb '12

We have a range of VLAN IDs dedicated to storage related networks. Any of you out there find any value in reserving certain ranges for certain types of storage traffic (e.g. iSCSI, FCoE, NAS, etc all in different ranges)? Simplest is to just start at the lowest value and assign to the larger numbers, but maybe I'm missing some benefit for staying more organized here. Ray

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toasters February 2012