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Running a snapmirror over an stunnel
by George T Chen 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

Has anyone been able to get a snapmirror running across an stunnel, and have it run at normal speeds (10, 20, 30 MB/s)? I can get it functional, but the speeds I'm getting are in the 40KB/s range.

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FCP Partner Path Misconfigured - Host I/O access through a non-primary and non-optimal path was detected.
by Linux Admin 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

Hello Toasters. I am receiving the following message from auto support: FCP Partner Path Misconfigured - Host I/O access through a non-primary and non-optimal path was detected. I have a single cluster acting in single fabric mode and it is wired up in the following way. Each host has an i-group on each node of the cluster for. Each of the netapp node is connected to sw1 and sw2 and hosts also has a path to sw1 and sw2. Why would the host access luns on N2 via partner node N1 --------------- --------------- { n1 } { n2 } | \ / | | \ / | | \ / | | \ / | --------------- --------------- { s1 } { s2 } \ / \ / --------------- { host }

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Monitor a loop's utilization
by Romeo Theriault 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

Hello, I'm interested in monitoring our filers fiber channel loops (to the shelves) performance. I'd like to be able to see what the utilization of a particular (2g) loop to some of our disk shelves is. But more generally I'd like to just be able to monitor all of the loops utilization over time. I've looked through the stats command and the snmp mib but am not finding what I'm looking for but I may just be looking for the wrong thing. Is it possible to monitor the loop utilization and if so how? Thank for any help on this. -- Romeo Theriault System Administrator Information Technology Services

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scrub disks (how to)
by Chaim Rieger 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

we are retiring 14 shelves and would like to scrub the disks, before giving them up. anybody got any pointers ? (begin rant) on a side note, i think its not fair that netapp does not give a credit when returning disk shelves. (ok rant over)

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Re: scrub disks (how to)
by Eino Tuominen 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Chaim Rieger wrote: > we are retiring 14 shelves and would like to scrub the disks, before > giving them up. > > anybody got any pointers ? If your ontap is recent enough (dont' remember the version) you can use disk sanitize from the command line. -- Eino Tuominen

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ONTAP SDK access?
by Ray Van Dolson 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Hello all, I'm trying to figure out how to gain access to the ONTAP Developer SDK software. The ONTAP 7.3 sysadmin guide mentions the Network Appliance Advantage Developer Program, but the URL[1] there no longer works. And, in our case, although we have several FAS units, in this particular case we'd be working with an IBM n3600. Can we access these same SDK's through the IBM channel? Yes, we're starting to look into that but I'm hoping someone out there has been through this adventure before and can advise. :) Basically, our end goal is to be able to automate the creation and management of flexclone volumes. I'm sure we could script up a screen scraper type interfae, but these API's sound perfect. Just need to figure out how to use them and how to get access to documentation. Thanks for any pointers! Ray [1]: http://www.netapp.com/solutions/dfms/advantage.html

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Antivirus for NetApp Filers
by Zeeshan 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Hello All This may already have been discussed on the list, so fogive me...but we are thinking of going for Mcafee antivirus for NetApp... Any reviews/ reservations/ suggestions are welcomed ??? Thanx Zeeshan

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maximum agitation to a filer
by Willeke, Jochen 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Hi toasters, does anybody have a clue whats the maximum agitation is, a filer can handle? Maybe there is an official statement from netapp?!? The background is, that our facility-department is planing to start some aktivities near to our datacenter and we are afraid of any impact and want to give them some limits. Thankful for any thoughts! 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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ESX FCP host utilities
by ifstat 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

Anyone expierence this? I've even tried creating the ports manually using esxcfg-firewall -o and restarting the mgmt services. root@bc-esx02 /]# cd /vmfs/volumes/bc-esx02\:storage1/netapp_esx_host_utilities_5_0R2 [root@bc-esx02 netapp_esx_host_utilities_5_0R2]# ./install Would you like use SSL to securely connect to your NetApp storage system(s) (yes or no)?> no These tools require several ports to be open in the ESX firewall. The following ports will need to be opened: 20/tcp (incoming) 21/tcp (outgoing) 23/tcp (outgoing) 80/tcp (incoming/outgoing) 443/tcp (incoming) Do you want to open the ports now (yes or no)?> yes Installing VMware(R) ESX Host Utilities 5.0R2........................ Unpacking files to /opt/netapp/santools...........................DONE Adding the ESX Host Utilities firewall rules......................FAILED [root@bc-esx02 netapp_esx_host_utilities_5_0R2]# ls install sanlun_bin_netapp.tar uninstall [root@bc-esx02 netapp_esx_host_utilities_5_0R2]# service mgmt-vmware restart Stopping VMware ESX Server Management services: VMware ESX Server Host Agent Watchdog[ OK ] VMware ESX Server Host Agent[ OK ] Starting VMware ESX Server Management services: VMware ESX Server Host Agent (background)[ OK ] Availability report startup (background)[ OK ] [root@bc-esx02 netapp_esx_host_utilities_5_0R2]# esxcfg-firewall -q netappEHU 2009-03-08 17:14:41 (3468) ERROR: Unknown service 'netappEHU' [root@bc-esx02 netapp_esx_host_utilities_5_0R2]# cd / [root@bc-esx02 /]# cd etc/vmware/firewall/ [root@bc-esx02 firewall]# ls caARCserve.xml ibmTSM.xml services.xml symantecNetBackup.xml commvaultGalaxy.xml legatoNetworker.xml symantecBackupExec.xml -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/ESX-FCP-host-utilities-tp22399063p22399063.html Sent from the Network Appliance - Toasters mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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vmware ESX and volumes/aggrs
by steve klise 07 Mar '09

07 Mar '09

I was always under the impression you wanted to put as many disks into an aggr, then setup the volumes inside the aggr. Here is what we are doing, and I am just trying to see what others are doing, best practices, etc. We have an AGGR that we use for VMware sitting on a 6030 running 7.2.4 FCP. The aggr is ~ 9TB or so, usable and we have 1 volume that is ~ 5TB or so. We do not currenlty use SMVI (waiting for the budget to open) :) but we will use SMVI and hopefully snapmirror over to another filer. All VM's are windows (for the most part) The primary storage is still on 7.2.4, so no dedupe, or thin provisioning until we upgrade to 7.3.2 sometime this year. This is coming btw to a store near you... Pros/cons to creating smaller/bigger volumes: potentially easier to snapmirror less dedupe % if we create smaller volumes (less vm's, less dedupe) Is there anything wrong with creating 1 volume to 1 aggr and grow the volume to 80%? Am I missing something here? We are thinking of reducing our snap reserve as well. Yes, I have read the vmware best practices doc. VERY GOOD BTW. Thanks in advance -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/vmware-ESX-and-volumes-aggrs-tp22357882p22357882.html Sent from the Network Appliance - Toasters mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: vmware ESX and volumes/aggrs
by Davies,Matt 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

Peter, Thanks as always for the information. Cheers Matt ----- Original Message ----- From: Learmonth, Peter <Peter.Learmonth(a)netapp.com> To: Davies,Matt; Darren Sykes <Darren.Sykes(a)csr.com>; Nick Silkey <silkey(a)ece.utexas.edu> Cc: steve klise <klises(a)caminomedical.org>; toasters(a)mathworks.com <toasters(a)mathworks.com> Sent: Fri Mar 06 21:56:39 2009 Subject: RE: vmware ESX and volumes/aggrs Hi Matt This is ESX350-200808401-BG. The issue has to do with how locks are handled during snapshot commits, and other functionality that uses delta files. The fix has nothing to do with VMware tools. For ESX 3.5 updates 1 and 2, you need to install ESX350-200808401-BG (or a bundle that includes it). For ESX 3.5 Update 3, the patch is already there and you just need to activate it. To activate it, add the following line to /etc/vmware/config prefvmx.consolidateDeleteNFSLocks = "TRUE" and reboot. Details are in TR3428 http://www.netapp.com/us/library/technical-reports/tr-3428.html Enjoy! Peter -----Original Message----- From: Davies,Matt [mailto:MDAVIES@generalatlantic.com] Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 1:10 PM To: Darren Sykes; Nick Silkey Cc: steve klise; toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: RE: vmware ESX and volumes/aggrs Darren, Do you have any details on the bug that affects removing snapshots from VM's on NFS ? And do you have any details about which version of VM tools seems to solve the problem, I thought we were upto date with versions and patches, but still seem to seeing similar problems with smvi and NFS datastores. Thanks Matt -----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Darren Sykes Sent: 06 March 2009 17:51 To: Nick Silkey Cc: steve klise; toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: RE: vmware ESX and volumes/aggrs Yes, the issues we're seeing are that some machines lock up when undergoing SMVI backups (and not the normal bug that affects removing snapshots from VMs on NFS storage). The latest theory is that the fixes in the latest version of VMWare tools sorts it out. VMware don't have a firm idea of what's causing it in our environment, but we've seen numerous bugs based on the locking mechanism (which is different in NFS to iSCSI or FC). Darren. -----Original Message----- From: Nick Silkey [mailto:silkey@ece.utexas.edu] Sent: 06 March 2009 15:31 To: Darren Sykes Cc: steve klise; toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Re: vmware ESX and volumes/aggrs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Darren Sykes wrote: > Having said all that, I think SMVI generally works better with non-NFS > stores; we're still having occasional issues due to NFS related issues. Darren -- Can you elaborate on those issues for those of us eyeing both NFS for datastores and SMVI for snap management/operations? Thanks. - -- Nick Silkey -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkmxQcIACgkQrDQjhjXrMeI3swCeMtEBzZp/kM3Rk+2Qen33BSGU ockAn3i5ZdQ73icMtcUttPzJ4scr0h5K =yKLa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To report this email as spam click https://www.mailcontrol.com/sr/kh8Fd1nb5kHTndxI!oX7UqcUCtlg0TD8A1BaxxyeY dpMmHvx8qkAiLQ5RK2G1tICMbw0NZTqqAAwyNC8RpgWkw== . _____________________________________________________________ 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: FCP Partner Path Misconfigured - Host I/O access through a non-primary and non-optimal path was detected.
by Angelescu, Silviu 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

Make sure ALUA is enabled on Solaris as well as on NetApp and set the cfmode to single image on NetApp. I suspect ALUA may be off on Solaris. If you installed the host utilities for solaris run "basic_config -ssd_set", "reboot -- -r", "stmsboot -e" (do not let stmsboot to reboot; use reboot instead in next step), "reboot -- -r". This should work. Silviu . ________________________________ From: Linux Admin To: Brad Knowles Cc: Jack Lyons ; NetApp Toasters List Sent: Thu Mar 05 17:15:45 2009 Subject: Re: FCP Partner Path Misconfigured - Host I/O access through a non-primary and non-optimal path was detected. I am bit confused, even Solaris 10 with MPIO has problme figure out what correct path to take It has 2 path on san (sw1 and sw2) and efectivly 4 path to lun (netapp1 and netapp2 are connected each into sw1 and sw2) Why would both Solaris and ESX server access netapp1 luns via netapp2 for most parts? Should I just kill fabric mash and have netap1-sw1 and netap2-sw2 to simplify things? Do host utulities for Solaris help with that at all? On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Brad Knowles <brad(a)shub-internet.org> wrote: Linux Admin wrote: I solaris 10 as bad about this as ESX server? I also see the same issue with Solaris server Ironically, I overheard my co-workers talking about this very subject outside my office just a few minutes ago. There are apparently still problems with ESX with Linux (and maybe Solaris) VMs where there is a minor hiccup and the pre-configured primary path is replaced by ESX with the alternate path. Unlike what happens when you do a VMotion, the OS is not stopped by ESX during this process -- all the VM sees is that the disks have gone away (albeit for a brief period of time), so they mark the disks as read-only and then you're hosed until someone logs in and reboots the VM or otherwise fixes it. I think this is caused by a disconnect with the multipathing done at the ESX level and no multipathing done at the VM level. I strongly suspect you'll need to install multipathing software at the VM level that is compatible with the multipathing used by your storage -- so, EMC PowerPath, if the underlying storage is on EMC, etc.... Even if ESX is doing multipathing just fine, that doesn't necessarily mean that the hosted VMs can also automatically do multipathing in a way that will work with what the storage vendor supplies, what ESX does, and so on. Our solution is that the storage is simply never allowed to go down, and we don't touch anything that is served to the ESX machines without first getting prior approval and coordination with the ESX administrators, as well as with the appropriate VM administrators. And when you have hundreds of VMs on a set of ESX servers in a single infrastructure which could potentially be VMotion'ed at any time from one node to another, that is a hell of a lot of pre-coordination. Even the slightest bump of a cable could do something that the storage or ESX doesn't like, they do their multipath thing, and then all the affected VMs on the box are screwed. Oops. -- Brad Knowles <brad(a)shub-internet.org> If you like Jazz/R&B guitar, check out LinkedIn Profile: my friend bigsbytracks on YouTube at <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> http://preview.tinyurl.com/bigsbytracks

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fcp stats command
by ifstat 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

Hi Not sure if I should be paranoid or not. but can anyone explain to me what interrupts are when using hte fcp stats command? I having a performance problem and ESX Administration says that certain ESX servers are loosing connection to their LUNs, but the Netapp doesn't report anything and neither do the FC switches. Statistics for adapter 1b Read Ops: 871 Write Ops: 10987 Other Ops: 412 KBytes In: 71180 KBytes Out: 7713 Adapter Resets: 0 Frame Overruns: 0 Frame Underruns: 0 Initiators Connected: 18 Link Breaks: 0 LIP Resets: 0 SCSI Requests Dropped: 0 Interrupts: 31203 Spurious Interrupts: 0 Total Logins: 0 Total Logouts: 0 CRC Errors: 0 Queue Depth: 0 -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/fcp-stats-command-tp22367594p22367594.html Sent from the Network Appliance - Toasters mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: FCP Partner Path Misconfigured - Host I/O access through a non-primary and non-optimal path was detected.
by Linux Admin 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

I am bit confused, even Solaris 10 with MPIO has problme figure out what correct path to take It has 2 path on san (sw1 and sw2) and efectivly 4 path to lun (netapp1 and netapp2 are connected each into sw1 and sw2) Why would both Solaris and ESX server access netapp1 luns via netapp2 for most parts? Should I just kill fabric mash and have netap1-sw1 and netap2-sw2 to simplify things? Do host utulities for Solaris help with that at all? On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Brad Knowles <brad(a)shub-internet.org> wrote: > Linux Admin wrote: > > I solaris 10 as bad about this as ESX server? >> I also see the same issue with Solaris server >> > > Ironically, I overheard my co-workers talking about this very subject > outside my office just a few minutes ago. > > There are apparently still problems with ESX with Linux (and maybe Solaris) > VMs where there is a minor hiccup and the pre-configured primary path is > replaced by ESX with the alternate path. Unlike what happens when you do a > VMotion, the OS is not stopped by ESX during this process -- all the VM sees > is that the disks have gone away (albeit for a brief period of time), so > they mark the disks as read-only and then you're hosed until someone logs in > and reboots the VM or otherwise fixes it. > > I think this is caused by a disconnect with the multipathing done at the > ESX level and no multipathing done at the VM level. I strongly suspect > you'll need to install multipathing software at the VM level that is > compatible with the multipathing used by your storage -- so, EMC PowerPath, > if the underlying storage is on EMC, etc.... > > Even if ESX is doing multipathing just fine, that doesn't necessarily mean > that the hosted VMs can also automatically do multipathing in a way that > will work with what the storage vendor supplies, what ESX does, and so on. > > > Our solution is that the storage is simply never allowed to go down, and we > don't touch anything that is served to the ESX machines without first > getting prior approval and coordination with the ESX administrators, as well > as with the appropriate VM administrators. > > And when you have hundreds of VMs on a set of ESX servers in a single > infrastructure which could potentially be VMotion'ed at any time from one > node to another, that is a hell of a lot of pre-coordination. > > Even the slightest bump of a cable could do something that the storage or > ESX doesn't like, they do their multipath thing, and then all the affected > VMs on the box are screwed. Oops. > > -- > Brad Knowles > <brad(a)shub-internet.org> If you like Jazz/R&B guitar, check out > LinkedIn Profile: my friend bigsbytracks on YouTube at > <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> http://preview.tinyurl.com/bigsbytracks >

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SnapMirror between N-series and FAS?
by Nils Vogels 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

Hi list! Just a quick question: Has anyone ever tried to make SnapMirror work between IBM N-series and NetApp FAS? And most importantly: Did it work? ;) Greetings, 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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programs to stress/saturate nfs traffic on filer
by Roscoe P Coltraine 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

i want to generate and measure as much load as possible on a unix host via nfs to our filer to capture the max throughput the host can generate. we have used iozone but this does not generally saturate the server or the filer. what i am looking for is something along the lines of host can sustain X MB/sec throughput and at the same time measure the filers performance/response. im sure someone has a page with tools on this somewhere

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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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SMVI 1.0.1
by steve klise 24 Feb '09

24 Feb '09

I have ESX 3.5 rev2 (don't quote me on the rev, but we are 1 rev back from the latest esx 3.5.x), running SMVI 1.0.1 on our Virtual Center host (windows 2003 R2 sp2). We are testing SMVI 1.0.1 on our 6030's running ontap 7.24 via FCP. We are able to take snapshots at the datastore level. When we go to restore, here is what we are doing: taking a snapshot (love snapshots, they work real fast, etc) Once completed, we snapmirror to another filer via SMVI (no big deal so far) We delete a windows VM (again, simulating OH NO YOU DIDN"T delete that vm....) Go to do a restore of a vm via thees instructions: http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/SnapManager/relsmvi_10/html/softwa… successfully completed :jumping: wait, no VM appears in my VIC :,( I can go to the vmdk and right click and add to inventory, but our VAR said this is not how it should work. I called support, and they said it should be fixed in version 2. Sounded fishy, but support is usually right on. Any suggestions? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/SMVI-1.0.1-tp22170514p22170514.html Sent from the Network Appliance - Toasters mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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