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72GB BCS disk as hot spare
by Moshe Linzer 19 Jul '01

19 Jul '01

Assume I have an F760 filer running 6.x with disk shelves as follows: 2xFC8 (18GB disks), 4xFC9 (36GB disks), and 1xDS14 (72GB disks). The 18 and 36GB disks (2 volumes) use Zone checksums, while the 72GB disks (1 volume) use Block checksums. My question: can I keep a single 72GB BCS disk as hot spare for the whole filer? If a failure occurs on a smaller disk, the filer will reconstruct on the 72GB spare. Then I can replace the broken disk with one the correct size, and fail the rebuilt 72GB disk over to the new disk. The 72GB disk is then reinserted as hot spare. The only question is: Will it work? NOW says that a BCS disk can be a hot spare for a ZCS volume, but they don't relate to DS14 shelves. And any unforseen gotchas. Thanks, Moshe -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Moshe Linzer | On the Internet, IT Manager | National Semiconductor, Israel | nobody knows you're a moron. Phone: 972-9-970-2247 | Fax: 972-9-970-2001 | - Network Magazine Email: moshel(a)nsc.com | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Corruption in data
by Clawson, Simon 19 Jul '01

19 Jul '01

Hi, I have a user who is experiencing data corruption. He opens a file in textpad, saves it then uses the file in an application and finds it has null characters in it. I checked through and found he had run out of quota. I increased this and all appears to be well. My question is - can low or no disk quota cause data corruption? Simon Simon Clawson HDS Team Systems Administrator Mentor Graphics Uk Rivergate London Road Newbury Berkshire RG14 2QB <<Clawson, Simon.vcf>>

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vol2 appears before vol0
by Moshe Linzer 19 Jul '01

19 Jul '01

I recently installed a new filer, and physically moved one of my volumes (vol2) to it. Since this volume was composed of FC8 shelves, while the root volume (vol0) on the new filer had FC9 shelves, the technician installed the FC8 shelves first on the loop, then the FC9's. The result is, whatever command I issue (df, sysconfig -r), it displays vol2 first, and then vol0. Frankly, this drives me crazy, and I am forever rechecking which volume I am looking at. Is there a reason for this, and any way to fix it? Thanks, Moshe -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Moshe Linzer | On the Internet, IT Manager | National Semiconductor, Israel | nobody knows you're a moron. Phone: 972-9-970-2247 | Fax: 972-9-970-2001 | - Network Magazine Email: moshel(a)nsc.com | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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UNSCRIBE remove
by Puneet Gulati 18 Jul '01

18 Jul '01

UNSCRIBE remove

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Re: Consecutive count
by Sam Cramer 18 Jul '01

18 Jul '01

> However, if I do a 'vif status', I get a very high number for "consecutive": > > toaster> vif status > default: transmit 'multi', fail 'log' > redundo: 2 links, transmit 'single', fail 'default' > up: > e8: state up, since 18Jul2001 12:37:34 (01:00:17) > mediatype: auto-1000sx-fd-up > flags: enabled next-link favored address-set-1 > input packets 11626, input bytes 729869 > output packets 528, output bytes 83621 > up indications 1, broken indications 1 > drops (if) 0, drops (link) 0 > indication: up at 18Jul2001 12:36:41 > consecutive 0, transitions 2 > down: > e0: state down, since 18Jul2001 12:37:34 (01:00:17) > mediatype: auto-100tx-fd-up > flags: disabled > input packets 286, input bytes 25148 > output packets 136, output bytes 17952 > up indications 3669, broken indications 0 > drops (if) 0, drops (link) 0 > indication: up at 18Jul2001 13:37:51 > consecutive 3669, transitions 0 > The "up indications" seems to be the cause of it. Can anyone tell me > what that is from? It looks like there is about 1 every second or so. > Is this a normal thing? I searched on NOW and could only find one hit > for "consecutive" that both had to do with virtual interfaces and wasn't > in the documentation. The vif man page (na_vif.1) explains Links constantly issue either up or broken indications based on their interaction with the switch. The consecu tive count indicates the number of consecutively received indications with the same value (in this example, up). The transitions count indicates how many times the indica tion has gone from up to down or from down to up. So, you don't need to worry about this. Sam

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Consecutive count
by Jordan Share 18 Jul '01

18 Jul '01

So, I just installed a GB ethernet card, and got a virtual interface up and running on my 740. However, if I do a 'vif status', I get a very high number for "consecutive": toaster> vif status default: transmit 'multi', fail 'log' redundo: 2 links, transmit 'single', fail 'default' up: e8: state up, since 18Jul2001 12:37:34 (01:00:17) mediatype: auto-1000sx-fd-up flags: enabled next-link favored address-set-1 input packets 11626, input bytes 729869 output packets 528, output bytes 83621 up indications 1, broken indications 1 drops (if) 0, drops (link) 0 indication: up at 18Jul2001 12:36:41 consecutive 0, transitions 2 down: e0: state down, since 18Jul2001 12:37:34 (01:00:17) mediatype: auto-100tx-fd-up flags: disabled input packets 286, input bytes 25148 output packets 136, output bytes 17952 up indications 3669, broken indications 0 drops (if) 0, drops (link) 0 indication: up at 18Jul2001 13:37:51 consecutive 3669, transitions 0 The "up indications" seems to be the cause of it. Can anyone tell me what that is from? It looks like there is about 1 every second or so. Is this a normal thing? I searched on NOW and could only find one hit for "consecutive" that both had to do with virtual interfaces and wasn't in the documentation. Thanks, Jordan

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Suns going cheap anyone?
by Stephen J. Wilcox 18 Jul '01

18 Jul '01

Sorry to abuse the list.. I've got some Sun E450s, an E250, an E3500, unboxed, as new left over from a liquidation. Going to anyone who wants them. Note I'm based in the UK. Mail me off list please if anyone is interested. Steve

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RE: subsribe to toaster newsgroup
by Benn, Paul 18 Jul '01

18 Jul '01

Hello Andreas, This is quite easy to do. Simply send an email to majordomo(a)mathworks.com and in the body of the message enter: subscribe toasters There is also an EMC list that you might want to subscribe to as well. For that one, enter in the body of the message: subscribe emcnas Kind Regards, Paul Benn Network Appliance -----Original Message----- From: Hupe_Andreas(a)emc.com [mailto:Hupe_Andreas@emc.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 10:38 PM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: subsribe to toaster newsgroup can you please add me to the newsgroup. regards, Andreas Hupe Technical Architect - Network Attached Storage EMC² where information lives Phone: +49-89-93091-233 Mobil: +49-173-6667358 Email: hupe_andreas(a)emc.com EMC Computer Systems Deutschland GmbH Osterfeldstrasse 84 85737 Ismaning

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subsribe to toaster newsgroup
by Hupe_Andreas＠emc.com 18 Jul '01

18 Jul '01

can you please add me to the newsgroup. regards, Andreas Hupe Technical Architect - Network Attached Storage EMC² where information lives Phone: +49-89-93091-233 Mobil: +49-173-6667358 Email: hupe_andreas(a)emc.com EMC Computer Systems Deutschland GmbH Osterfeldstrasse 84 85737 Ismaning

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Screening File Types
by Carruthers, Paul A 17 Jul '01

17 Jul '01

I'm wanting to keep our CIFS clients from writing certain file extensions to our filers via their mapped drives. Does anyone know of any NT based products that will do this real-time? I really don't want to resort to running scripts to delete them each week. Cheers...Paul.

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RE: Ms Exchange and Netapp Filers
by Witham, John 17 Jul '01

17 Jul '01

We currently run 3 Exchange environments on filers, one has a 90GB information store, one has a 36GB information store, and one has a 20GB information store. The Filers have dual GigE NICs running Multi VIF'd to Cisco Catalyst 6509 switches. The Exchange servers have single GigE NICs. The Exchange servers are 6 way Pentium III 700MHz 2MB XEON boxes with 2GB RAM. The 90GB information store is our Home Office. They abuse email like there is no tomorrow, so it's pretty active. If you take the time to set your environment up correctly using SnapRestore, you don't need to worry about M$ support. We've recovered from ourselves (Never let an unskilled admin play with Mailbox Manager), without any issues. We've had one environment up since last summer without any issues. Good Luck! -john John Witham Senior Data Networking Engineer Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, Inc. V://847.383.3304 F://847.383.3205 mailto://jwitham@takedapharm.com -----Original Message----- From: Waters, G Scott DSTI [mailto:scott.waters@SBCCOM.APGEA.ARMY.MIL] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 8:35 AM To: 'lallin(a)millermartin.com' Cc: 'toasters(a)mathworks.com' Subject: RE: Ms Exchange and Netapp Filers >>We are currently a Lotus Notes shop and are looking to move to Exchange. Sorry to hear that. Do you really want to do that?? >>We have specked out a server and are planning to place the Exchange data on the filer. Do you know you are placing your Exchange server in an unsupported mode as far as Microsoft is concerned??? >>Our question is related to connectivity. Is anyone running fast ethernet between their filer and Exchange server? Or is Gigabit the best bet? The place where I work has purchased another filer (we already have one being used for network file services) so that we can move our Exchange databases to it (against my recommendations). The salesman told us that GigE on a private network between the filer and the server is the only way to go. It needs the GigE for quick responses to the Exchange server. I do not have any personal experiences yet. How many people are you planning on supporting and how active are they on e-mail?? Good lUck. - Scott W. This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited.

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SQL Performance
by Jay Newton 17 Jul '01

17 Jul '01

Hi everybody! Are there any folks out there using SQL 7 on a Filer? I'm looking to see what you found as far as performance goes. We just moved 2 production databases to our F840 last night. We noticed that the copies to and from the database are incredibly fast. However, most queries other than the most basic have slowed down. In some cases it's as much as 400%. The Filer has 2 OC-3 ATM links and the database server has 1. We have a few databases that will be adversely affected by that kind of performance decrease. Are there any tips or tricks out there that might help other than going GigE? Any other observations? Thank you!! Jay Newton Systems Engineer Chesapeake Operating 6112-114 (405)810-2683 (405)879-9578 fax

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disk scrub time
by Hannes Herret 17 Jul '01

17 Jul '01

hi all, normally the disk scrub starts on sunday 1 a.m. cause of the running ndmp-backup, the filer counldn't finish the scrub within the default deadline time of 6 h. there are 4 volumes on the filer and just 1 finished the scrub. the other get stopped like following: Sun Jul 8 01:00:00 CES [fsup02: raid_scrub_admin:notice]: Beginning disk scrubbing... Sun Jul 8 07:00:01 CES [fsup02: consumer:notice]: Disk scrub stopped because the scrub time limit was exceeded. Sun Jul 8 07:00:01 CES [fsup02: consumer:notice]: Scrub for volume vol0, RAID group 0 stopped at stripe 13435506. Sun Jul 8 07:00:01 CES [fsup02: consumer:notice]: 0 new parity inconsistencies found, 0 to date. Sun Jul 8 07:00:01 CES [fsup02: consumer:notice]: 0 new checksum errors found, 0 to date. how to resolve this? a. disable automatic disk scrub and start it with cron via rsh i don' like it, cause of the administration b. set the day of the disk scrub to e.g. saturday how to set on the filer? c. lenghten the scrub time limit with raid.scrub.duration i think the default is 0 and the setting works with minutes 0 means unlimited time? 480 means 8 hours? d. optimize scrubbing with raid.scrubbers default is 2 is that the number of processes ontap should use for scrubbing? a or b or c or d, or all of them? any other suggestions or comments are welcome !! cu hannes -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Hannes Herret IT-Service / Storage phone : +43 (1) 60 126-34 Bacher Systems EDV GmbH fax : +43 (1) 60 126-555 Wienerbergstr. 11B mailto:hh@bacher.at A-1101 Wien, Austria www : http://www.bacher.at/ Europe

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nfs3 vs. HP NFS PV3
by Phil Hill 16 Jul '01

16 Jul '01

hi, is HP NFS PV3 the same like Sun nfs3? Is there something to consider, if I want to connect a HP C3600 and J6000 with HP-UX11 to a NetApp F8xx ( Ontap 6.x ) thanks Phil --

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How to register
by Mati Giladi 15 Jul '01

15 Jul '01

Hi, How can a new user register ? Thanks, Mati.

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RE: An idea on migrating NTFS data
by Walsh, Warren (MN65) 13 Jul '01

13 Jul '01

We recently moved about 400GB of data from a NT4 file server to a Win2k file server using a tool from Fastlane. The tool also had a NetApp proxy, where you would install the software on a third system, independent of the first server and the filer. Not sure if it would work for two filers, but it might be worth a try. It would beat the backup and restore route, and then trying to hack the permissions with the cacls or subinacls tools. Ugh. We had a ton of local groups, and a few local accounts, that were all migrated pretty painlessly. Drop an email back if you want more details on the product. The web page is http://www.quest.com/fastlane/consolidator/. The Fastlane product beat Aletia's in the last Windows 2000 magazine review. -warren -----Original Message----- From: Jeffrey Krueger [mailto:jkrueger@qualcomm.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 4:37 PM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: An idea on migrating NTFS data We are about to migrate a bunch of data between different filers, among which is some NTFS security style data. The only non-slam-dunk about it is NTFS local groups. Background: We use the Microsoft recommended method of assigning rights to filesystems, that is UGLR (phonetic == Uglier). Users belong to ... Global groups, which belong to ... Local groups, which are assigned access to ... Resources. The problem is that Local groups have a non-global SIDs between machines. That is, each filer assigns its own local SID's to local groups in its /etc/lclgroups.cfg on the root volume. That SID gets moved with the ACL data to the destination, but the destination machine can't resolve its membership with its local groups. The traditional approach to fixing this is using a tool from Aelita or subinacl to traverse the entire destination filesystem (post-migration) and replacing any occurrence of the old SID with that of a new SID for a local group on the destination filer. This is all fine and good, but could take forever. -------- THE IDEA -------- Here's my idea on a better way to do this. Simply shutdown CIFS on the destination machine pre-move and create analogous local group entries with SIDs that match the source. NetApp tech support might not like the idea too much, but it would mean that the same global groups would belong to that SID and thus no filesystem traversing or ACL modification! Ta Da! Unfortunately, we are copying data from more source machines than there are destination machines and we are not copying data per filer - that is some data from filer1 will go to filerA, some to filerB, etc. This means that for my scheme to work, we'd need globally unique local group SID's. Since it appears that ONTAP starts assigning local group SID's at 65536 sequentially, we have lots of conflicting local groups with those lower numbered SID's. To still use the original concept, I had the idea of copying the membership of all the groups on the source filers into new local groups with globally unique SID's. Then run one of the ACL tools to create analogous ACE's for the new group wherever it finds the old one. (This is all done pre-migration) After the migration we simply create local groups on the destination machine with SID's of the new, analogous rights granted group. Has anyone tried something like this before?? Can anyone see any problems with this approach?? How about an alternative approach?? Again, the idea is to prevent the requirement of a filesystem traversal during migration. Thanks in advance!! -- Jeff -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Krueger, NetApp CA E-Mail: jeff(a)qualcomm.com Senior Engineer Phone: 858-651-6709 Storage Lead (NAS/SAN) Fax: 858-651-6627 QUALCOMM, Inc. IT Engineering Web: www.qualcomm.com

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turning off CIFS termination notification to CIFS clients
by Lella Bennett 13 Jul '01

13 Jul '01

Does anyone know of a way to turn off the notifications that get sent to all connected CIFS clients when CIFS is being terminated? Thanks in advance! Lella Bennett Systems Engineer NAREX Inc. 303.526.4000 x714 - office phone 303.638.8921 - mobile phone

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RE: turning off CIFS termination notification to CIFS clients
by Muhlestein, Mark 13 Jul '01

13 Jul '01

There is a hidden option, cifs.shutdown_msg_level. It is set as follows: "0" Never send broadcast shutdown messages "1" Only send broadcasts to sessions with open files "2" Send broadcasts to all connected sessions (default) Mark > -----Original Message----- > From: Lella Bennett [mailto:LBennett@NAREX.com] > Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 9:40 AM > To: toasters(a)mathworks.com > Subject: turning off CIFS termination notification to CIFS clients > > > Does anyone know of a way to turn off the notifications that > get sent to > all connected CIFS clients when CIFS is being terminated? > > Thanks in advance! > > Lella Bennett > Systems Engineer > NAREX Inc. > 303.526.4000 x714 - office phone > 303.638.8921 - mobile phone > >

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Filer Serial Connectivity
by Martin Hughes 13 Jul '01

13 Jul '01

Good morning all, We have 4 clustered F840Cs in our environment. As a backup connection method, we're looking at some type of terminal server that we can connect the filers to that will present the filers serial ports as IP addresses that we can connect to , in order to view the bootup messages etc, with a modem hookup in case of complete network failure. Does anyone else out there have any recommendations on make/model of equipment? Thanks as always, in advance. Regards Martin Enterprise Storage/Enterprise Server Group <mailto:martin.hughes@halliburton.com> cellphone: +1 713 303 9214 office: +1 281 871 4124 <<Martin JV Hughes (E-mail).vcf>>

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RE: Ms Exchange and Netapp Filers
by Joe Luchtenberg 13 Jul '01

13 Jul '01

I'm not sure where's the best place to direct this feedback, but the NetApp Tech Library papers on Exchange on filers and SnapManager you listed below ought to be updated for SnapManager 1.1. In particular, there is no reference to NetApp Drive, and restores are described as 50GB/hr copies from Snapshots rather than SnapRestore-style reversions to the Snapshots. Joe Joe Luchtenberg Dataline, Inc. 757-858-0600 757-285-1223 (mobile) 757-858-0606 (fax) joe.luchtenberg(a)data-line.com www.data-line.com > -----Original Message----- > From: White, Lance [mailto:Lance.White@netapp.com] > Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 9:27 AM > To: 'lallin(a)millermartin.com'; toasters(a)mathworks.com > Subject: RE: Ms Exchange and Netapp Filers > > > As per http://www.netapp.com/tech_library/3074.html > MicrosoftR Exchange and NetAppT Filers: Recommendations for > Deployment, if you scroll down to section 4.2.2, we highly > encourage the use of low latency connections like Gigabit, > particularly in database configurations. There are several > other useful documents in the tech library that will steer > you in the right direction for a successful deployment, > including http://www.netapp.com/tech_library/3054.html > MicrosoftR Exchange and NetAppR Filers: Technical Integration > and Installation Supplement and > http://www.netapp.com/tech_library/3067.html MicrosoftR > Exchange and NetAppR Filers: An Overview. In addition, an > independently-written Total Cost of Ownership report is at > http://www.netapp.com/tech_library/3103.html. > > Lance > > Lance White > Systems Engineer > British Columbia Region > Network Appliance, Inc. > > Phone: (604) 980-3568 > Cellular: (604) 209-5476 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: lallin(a)millermartin.com [mailto:lallin@millermartin.com] > Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 6:00 AM > To: toasters(a)mathworks.com > Subject: Ms Exchange and Netapp Filers > > > We are currently a Lotus Notes shop and are looking to move > to Exchange. > We have specked out a server and are planning to place the > Exchange data on > the filer. Our question is related to connectivity. Is > anyone running > fast ethernet between their filer and Exchange server? Or is > Gigabit the > best bet? What are your experiences with either of these? Thanks in > advance for your input. > > > > ---------------------------------------- > Luther Allin, MCSE > Network Systems Engineer > Miller & Martin LLP > lallin(a)millermartin.com > http://www.millermartin.com/ > Phone: 423-785-8381 > Fax: 423-321-1678 > ---------------------------------------- >

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RE: Ms Exchange and Netapp Filers
by Waters, G Scott DSTI 13 Jul '01

13 Jul '01

>>We are currently a Lotus Notes shop and are looking to move to Exchange. Sorry to hear that. Do you really want to do that?? >>We have specked out a server and are planning to place the Exchange data on the filer. Do you know you are placing your Exchange server in an unsupported mode as far as Microsoft is concerned??? >>Our question is related to connectivity. Is anyone running fast ethernet between their filer and Exchange server? Or is Gigabit the best bet? The place where I work has purchased another filer (we already have one being used for network file services) so that we can move our Exchange databases to it (against my recommendations). The salesman told us that GigE on a private network between the filer and the server is the only way to go. It needs the GigE for quick responses to the Exchange server. I do not have any personal experiences yet. How many people are you planning on supporting and how active are they on e-mail?? Good lUck. - Scott W.

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RE: Ms Exchange and Netapp Filers
by White, Lance 13 Jul '01

13 Jul '01

As per http://www.netapp.com/tech_library/3074.html MicrosoftR Exchange and NetAppT Filers: Recommendations for Deployment, if you scroll down to section 4.2.2, we highly encourage the use of low latency connections like Gigabit, particularly in database configurations. There are several other useful documents in the tech library that will steer you in the right direction for a successful deployment, including http://www.netapp.com/tech_library/3054.html MicrosoftR Exchange and NetAppR Filers: Technical Integration and Installation Supplement and http://www.netapp.com/tech_library/3067.html MicrosoftR Exchange and NetAppR Filers: An Overview. In addition, an independently-written Total Cost of Ownership report is at http://www.netapp.com/tech_library/3103.html. Lance Lance White Systems Engineer British Columbia Region Network Appliance, Inc. Phone: (604) 980-3568 Cellular: (604) 209-5476 -----Original Message----- From: lallin(a)millermartin.com [mailto:lallin@millermartin.com] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 6:00 AM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Ms Exchange and Netapp Filers We are currently a Lotus Notes shop and are looking to move to Exchange. We have specked out a server and are planning to place the Exchange data on the filer. Our question is related to connectivity. Is anyone running fast ethernet between their filer and Exchange server? Or is Gigabit the best bet? What are your experiences with either of these? Thanks in advance for your input. ---------------------------------------- Luther Allin, MCSE Network Systems Engineer Miller & Martin LLP lallin(a)millermartin.com http://www.millermartin.com/ Phone: 423-785-8381 Fax: 423-321-1678 ----------------------------------------

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Ms Exchange and Netapp Filers
by lallin＠millermartin.com 13 Jul '01

13 Jul '01

We are currently a Lotus Notes shop and are looking to move to Exchange. We have specked out a server and are planning to place the Exchange data on the filer. Our question is related to connectivity. Is anyone running fast ethernet between their filer and Exchange server? Or is Gigabit the best bet? What are your experiences with either of these? Thanks in advance for your input. ---------------------------------------- Luther Allin, MCSE Network Systems Engineer Miller & Martin LLP lallin(a)millermartin.com http://www.millermartin.com/ Phone: 423-785-8381 Fax: 423-321-1678 ----------------------------------------

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RE: Deleting data on NetApp.
by Yoder, Alan 12 Jul '01

12 Jul '01

Rm is a very simple command with no switches. It will refuse to delete a directory. The syntax is rm <full path name> In general, deleting files from Unix or NT is preferable. Alan =============================================================== Alan G. Yoder agy(a)netapp.com Network Appliance, Inc. Sunnyvale, CA 408-822-6919 =============================================================== > -----Original Message----- > From: neil lehrer [mailto:nlehrer@ibb.gov] > Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 4:01 PM > To: Chris Thompson > Cc: Jeffrey Krueger; Adam.Fox(a)netapp.com; meital.israel(a)intel.com; > toasters(a)mathworks.com > Subject: Re: Deleting data on NetApp. > > > i'd like to know the detailed syntax for this. any nice > netapp folks just jump > in. > > Chris Thompson wrote: > > > > jkrueger(a)qualcomm.com (Jeffrey Krueger) writes > > > > > > I just wish I could delete files on a NetApp from the > console. It takes > > > forever and a day to remove a hundred or more GB off a > filer from either > > > CIFS or NFS. > > > > Surely it's the number of files, not their size, that matters? > > > > > An "rm" in the ONTAP CLI would be super handy. > > > > toaster> priv set advanced > > Warning: These advanced commands are potentially dangerous; use > > them only when directed to do so by Network Appliance > > personnel. > > toaster*> help rm > > rm - remove files > > > > Not that I've tried it, with that sort of health warning! > > > > > It could > work *much* faster > > > then over the wire. > > > > The amount of over-the-wire traffic needed to delete > zillions of files > > using NFS isn't really all that large. The delays you see are more > > likely to be the effect of sub-optimal NFS client implementations. > > For example, I remember large "rm -r"s to a filer becoming *much* > > faster after a patch to the NFS client code in Solaris 2.6. > > > > Chris Thompson University of Cambridge > Computing Service, > > Email: cet1(a)ucs.cam.ac.uk New Museums Site, Cambridge CB2 3QG, > > Phone: +44 1223 334715 United Kingdom. > > -- > > > regards > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > + Neil Lehrer > + > + United States International Broadcasting Bureau > + System Development Division > + > + voice 202 619-2524 > + fax 202 619-3576 > + nlehrer(a)ibb.gov > + > + " is this crisis an opportunity or just > + another grab the fire extinguisher moment?" > + > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >

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RE: Benchmarks
by Thompson, Tim 12 Jul '01

12 Jul '01

> You'll find how busy your individual disks are that way, plus a BUNCH of > other things, but that's probably the most important. We have just added a new tool to the "Tools and Utilities" download area on the NOW site, for exactly this purpose. It is called the "Per-Volume Performance Stats Tool", written in Perl. You can either use it through a web interface (you install it behind a Windows or UNIX web server and talk to it through your browser) or use a CLI version that is also included. The URL for the tool is: http://now.netapp.com/NOW/download/tools/pvstats/ Please check it out, and we're certainly interested in any feedback on it - we intend to do more in the area of performance tools, and your input always has an effect. ...Tim Thompson...Network Appliance, Inc...

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