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Assymetrical ipspace on cluster
by JacekN 27 Sep '07

27 Sep '07

IHAC who is using vfilers in non-default ipspaces on the cluster. Simplified configuration is like this: - node1: vfiler vf1 in ipspace ips1 - node2: ipspace defined but no vfiler uses it In both cases ipspaces includes single mode vif (I am not sure if it is significant in this problem). The configuration does not work during takeover of node1 by node2: there is no interface active for partner takeover (because no vfiler is defined in the ipspace ips1). I reproduced this problem on the simulator and found workaround: to create dummy vfiler on the node2 in the ipspace ips1. Is there any more elegant solution? Is it a bug or a feature? Best regards, Jacek Nogala --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 000776-1, 2007-09-24 Tested on: 2007-09-25 22:33:37 avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2007 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com

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Re: NFS and VMware
by Doucet, Hugo 27 Sep '07

27 Sep '07

Jeremy I suggest you consult this weeks posts on Dave Hitz blog (NetApp founder) and people's comments. The blog can be found via a link right pane on www.netapp.com Hugo (NetApp employee) -----Original Message----- From: Page, Jeremy <jeremy.page(a)gilbarco.com> To: toasters(a)mathworks.com <toasters(a)mathworks.com> Sent: Thu Sep 27 14:26:47 2007 Subject: NFS and VMware Are any of the toaster folks using NFS for VMware in a production environment? We have about 150 VMs across 12 servers at the moment sitting on an IBM DS4500, but I just got my budget approved to buy a nice 3040 cluster. For ease of backup/restore/DR I really would like to use NFS instead of FCP/iSCSI but I don't know what the performance impact will be. Any comments/experiences? This message (including any attachments) contains confidential and/or proprietary information intended only for the addressee. Any unauthorized disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may constitute a violation of law. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by responding to this e-mail, and delete the message from your system. If you have any questions about this e-mail please notify the sender immediately.

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Keeping CIFS from autostarting
by Nils Vogels 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

Hi! Is there any known way of keeping CIFS from autostarting upon reboot, once CIFS has been configured? Greets, Nils -- Simple guidelines to happiness: Work like you don't need the money, Love like your heart has never been broken and Dance like no one can see you.

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Time issue
by David McWilliams 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

I'm have weird stuff going on, it seems like it may be related to the timezone thingy, but I can't think why. We have a FAS250 running 7.0.4. Timed is configured and is pulling the time from the domain controller. The times appear to be in sync (confirmed in the messages file). We cannot mount the shares, it refuses due to the times being more than 5mins apart. The timezone is being reported as EST. When we changed the timezone to US/Michigan and rebooted. It now reports the time as exactly one hour ahead and the timezone is EDT. Right now I have disabled timed and set the time manually - all is well... for now. Does anyone have any ideas? -- Sláinte, David Get a safer, faster, better web browser @ http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

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RE: ONTAP UPGRADE - FEEDBACK REQUEST
by Borzenkov, Andrey 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

As you have clusters, I would recommend first updating to 7.0.6 and then – if required – to 7.2.3 or whatever version is available at this time. Then both of them are NDU. NDU between major releases are supported first starting with 7.2.3 and minimal base release is 7.0.6. Personally I do not see any point jumping through 7.1 additionally. Otherwise update from 7.0.4 directly to 7.2.3 was quite straightforward. С уважением / With best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüβen --- Andrey Borzenkov Senior system engineer ________________________________ From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Philip Boyle Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 9:19 PM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: ONTAP UPGRADE - FEEDBACK REQUEST Hi guys, I’m currently running a number of FAS940 clusters with DATA ONTAP Version 7.0.4 (Sun Feb 5 00:52:53 PST 2006 ) Primarily NFS with some ISCSI. I’d like to hear back from you re your experiences upgrading to the current s/w releases available on the NOW Site for the FAS940 series system. http://now.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/software?product=Data+ONTAP&platform=FAS9…. Our immediate options are to take a small step to 7.0.6, move up a little further to 7.1.2.1 or go for the latest and greatest, 7.2.3. Have you guys seen any issues along the upgrade path to any of the above releases? Looking at the stats there are a decent number of systems running 7.2.3, however the average run-time days per system is quite low. Feedback appreciated. Thanks, Philip

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RE: ONTAP UPGRADE - FEEDBACK REQUEST
by Leeds, Daniel 26 Sep '07

26 Sep '07

we do not utilize CIFS and we have no non production filers to verify/test on :) NDU works for us but yes i agree with you on all points here. -- Daniel Leeds Manager, Storage Operations Edmunds.com -----Original Message----- From: Scott Miller [mailto:Scott.Miller@dreamworks.com] Sent: Tue 9/25/2007 3:24 PM To: Leeds, Daniel Cc: Kennedy, Jeffrey; Borzenkov, Andrey; philip.boyle(a)eircom.net; toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Re: ONTAP UPGRADE - FEEDBACK REQUEST I'm with Jeff. A reboot takes less time that failover/failback, and I'd rather have CIFS shares disconnect and re-connenct just once. Rather than NDU, I upgrade both heads and then reboot them at the same time. After having tested the new release on non-critical filer resources, of course ;-) reboots occur during non-peak times or during scheduled maintenance windows, when possible. -skottie Leeds, Daniel wrote: > > NDU is highly valuable when you are running 24x7 environments with live > active data. We have had alot of success with this but still prefer a > scheduled upgrade downtime if possible. Both work great. :) > > > -- > Daniel Leeds > Manager, Storage Operations > Edmunds.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com on behalf of Kennedy, Jeffrey > Sent: Tue 9/25/2007 11:16 AM > To: Borzenkov, Andrey; philip.boyle(a)eircom.net; toasters(a)mathworks.com > Subject: RE: ONTAP UPGRADE - FEEDBACK REQUEST > > NDU really isn't is it? CIFS connections are still severed and NFS > survives both an NDU and a reboot easily enough. > > > > I've never understood the value of NDU honestly but if someone has a > success story I'd be interested to hear it. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Jeff Kennedy > > QCT Engineering Compute > > 858-651-6592 > > > -- Scott.Miller(a)DreamWorks.com

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Number of mailbox disks with a SyncMirrored root volume
by Nicolai E M Plum 25 Sep '07

25 Sep '07

Hi If I have an active/active (non-Metro) filer cluster, and I use SyncMirror to mirror the root volume of one filer, will I end up with mailbox disks in both plexes, or are the mailbox disks only in one plex (leaving me with a problem if that plex goes away completely)? Online documentation on this is not entirely clear. Would someone who has a SyncMirror setup be able to have a look at their system and answer this definitively? Nicolai

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RE: ONTAP UPGRADE - FEEDBACK REQUEST
by Sphar, Mike 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

Coincidentally, just this last weekend I upgraded an FAS940 from 6.5.5 to 7.2.2, as well as two FAS3020s from 7.0.5 to 7.2.3. (There wasn't a specific reason for doing 7.2.2 on one and 7.2.3 on the other, it just worked out that way because I talked to two different Netapp support staff about the different servers.) All the updates went completely painlessly and smoothly. I was a little concerned about the big jump from 6.5 but have not as yet discovered any problems or interruptions in service from the update. One thing that I think helped the update go smoothly is this time I contacted Netapp support and requested Upgrade Plans for each server, which I'd never done before. (I've just historically done the upgrades myself without help.) I was especially concerned with the 3020s because there were several firmware updates to apply and I wasn't entirely sure what the correct order should be. Netapp provided me PDFs of fairly detailed instructions for the upgrades. You can also have them provide a Downgrade Plan in the event of problems. I highly recommend taking advantage of that very helpful service, even if you're fairly familiar with he process. (It's also nice to have an official plan already drawn up to file with the Change Control teams.) -- Michael W. Sphar - IS&T - Lead Systems Administrator SMBU Engineering Support Services, BMC Software ________________________________ From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Philip Boyle Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 10:19 AM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: ONTAP UPGRADE - FEEDBACK REQUEST Hi guys, I'm currently running a number of FAS940 clusters with DATA ONTAP Version 7.0.4 (Sun Feb 5 00:52:53 PST 2006 ) Primarily NFS with some ISCSI. I'd like to hear back from you re your experiences upgrading to the current s/w releases available on the NOW Site for the FAS940 series system. http://now.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/software?product=Data+ONTAP&platform=F AS940. Our immediate options are to take a small step to 7.0.6, move up a little further to 7.1.2.1 or go for the latest and greatest, 7.2.3. Have you guys seen any issues along the upgrade path to any of the above releases? Looking at the stats there are a decent number of systems running 7.2.3, however the average run-time days per system is quite low. Feedback appreciated. Thanks, Philip

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RE: ONTAP UPGRADE - FEEDBACK REQUEST
by Glenn Marsh 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

Is it just me or are the numbers the same for just about any system? http://now.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/software/?product=Data+ONTAP&platform=FAS… http://now.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/software/?product=Data+ONTAP&platform=FAS… http://now.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/software/?product=Data+ONTAP&platform=FAS… I guess we don't know for sure now what the real stats are. :( ************************************************************************ Glenn Marsh Lattice Semiconductor Corporation Senior Unix Systems Administrator 5555 NE Moore Court CAD Engineering Hillsboro, Oregon 97124 glenn.marsh(a)latticesemi.com 503-268-8000 503-268-8136 phone - 503-268-8459 fax ************************************************************************

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ONTAP UPGRADE - FEEDBACK REQUEST
by Philip Boyle 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

Hi guys, I'm currently running a number of FAS940 clusters with DATA ONTAP Version 7.0.4 (Sun Feb 5 00:52:53 PST 2006 ) Primarily NFS with some ISCSI. I'd like to hear back from you re your experiences upgrading to the current s/w releases available on the NOW Site for the FAS940 series system. http://now.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/software?product=Data+ONTAP <http://now.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/software?product=Data+ONTAP&platform=FAS9 40> &platform=FAS940. Our immediate options are to take a small step to 7.0.6, move up a little further to 7.1.2.1 or go for the latest and greatest, 7.2.3. Have you guys seen any issues along the upgrade path to any of the above releases? Looking at the stats there are a decent number of systems running 7.2.3, however the average run-time days per system is quite low. Feedback appreciated. Thanks, Philip

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