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FAS2240 Twinax Support
by Dan Olson 29 Jun '12

29 Jun '12

Hi All, We're currently in the specification phase of a project using a FAS2240 with 4x 10gbE ports. I'm trying to figure out if the FAS2240 supports "active" twinax from a Brocade VDX 6720. The Brocade ethernet switches seem to be relatively strange that twinax at <5M is active, usually it is only long twinax runs that require that. Anyone out there have a FAS2240 working with a Brocade switch via twinax?

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OSSV being abusive of the secondary filer.
by Jeff Cleverley 27 Jun '12

27 Jun '12

Greetings, I'm running OSSV3.0 on some RH5.4 clients to a 6040 NearStore running 8.1 with 10G networking. The process works OK, but when I have an OSSV transfer running, the system load on the filer goes to 100%, it starts behaving very sluggishly, and the regular filer to NearStore backups start running very long, in some cases 2-3 days when they should complete in no more than 6 hours. I've gone through the installation and best practices guide and don't see anything about tuning the secondary. I've looked at sysstat during the load times and disk and network throughput are hardly above 60 MB/s. I know I can try throttling the backup, but it doesn't appear to be a throughput or bottleneck issue. Has anyone else seen this or is there anything I can do to help this? Thanks, Jeff -- Jeff Cleverley Unix Systems Administrator 4380 Ziegler Road Fort Collins, Colorado 80525 970-288-4611

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$BACKUP_PRODUCT <-> NetApp integration.
by Ray Van Dolson 27 Jun '12

27 Jun '12

Hello all; We are exploring a couple of different ways to integrate our backup product (CommVault FWIW) with our NetApps (N-Series to be exact). CommVault integrates by leveraging FlexClone and SnapRestore. This operates at the volume level and so we either grab the entire volume or nothing at all. No way to get granularity into specific files or folders. Due to licensing constraints, we can't just grab "everything". This may change in the future, but until then we're looking at several options including setting up dedicated flexvols where VM's which need backups are placed and other flexvols where VM's we won't back up are placed. CV also has integration natively with vCenter, but there are some performance downsides here. How do some of you out there handle this sort of scenario? Thanks, Ray

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WORKAROUND: AutoSupport cannot connect to url https://support.netapp.com/
by Fletcher Cocquyt 25 Jun '12

25 Jun '12

Well, I followed Netapp support's recommendation to add a static route route add 216.240.18.16 <gatewayIP> 1 I post this followup under the category of WORKAROUND since the ASUPs are flowing now, but IMO the root cause is not determined (it should not be necessary to add this static route if the routing table is being obeyed) More info: Our firewall is set to LOG egress (outgoing) connections For the working node I could see the connections made from the default gateway net VIF But, on the problem node, this connection was being attempted from one of the other VIFs (not in the default gateway net) I've asked netapp support to review the fresh ASUPs to see what they might reveal about these apparent routing issues. thanks On Jun 4, 2012, at 11:00 AM, Jayanathan, David wrote: > I am very interested in what you find out. I am having a similar problem with a lot of our newer systems (both 8.0.X and 8.1) not being able to post asups. > > One problem that I believe was fixed on 8.1 was requiring the use of a sendmail server, as using exchangeas your mail server was not working. > > Let me know what you find out! I have about two dozen new systems eagerly awaiting to send data back to NetApp :D > > -----Original Message----- > From: toasters-bounces(a)teaparty.net [mailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net] On Behalf Of Fletcher Cocquyt > Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 10:25 AM > To: toasters(a)teaparty.net Lists > Subject: AutoSupport cannot connect to url https://support.netapp.com/ > > One of the nodes in this cluster is not able to connect to netapp to post its ASUP since we updated to 8.1 GA 40 days ago: > > AutoSupport (HA Group Notification from na04 (USER_TRIGGERED (COMPLETE:completedShelfFWupdate)) INFO) cannot connect to url https://support.netapp.com/put/AsupPut/ > [na04:asup.post.retry:info]: AutoSupport message (HA Group Notification from na04 (PERFORMANCE DATA) INFO) was not posted to NetApp for host (0). The system will retry later to post the message > > User triggered also fails to post to netapp.support.com (although we receive the emails internally): > > Jun 4 10:20:03 [na04:asup.post.host:info]: AutoSupport (HA Group Notification from na04 (USER_TRIGGERED (testing)) INFO) cannot connect to url https://support.netapp.com/put/AsupPut > > I compared > > options auto output on both nodes and they are the same > > DNS settings are the same - and functional > > na04*> ping www.netapp.com > a878.b.akamai.net is alive > > Any other areas to check? > > thanks > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Toasters mailing list > Toasters(a)teaparty.net > http://www.teaparty.net/mailman/listinfo/toasters

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shrinking snap mirror destination volume size does not return space
by Fletcher Cocquyt 23 Jun '12

23 Jun '12

I'm teaching our storage team to use the System Manager to resize volumes (both source and destination snap mirror volumes) Then one team member noticed this old issue - when the SM src/dest pair volumes are shrunk - the new size is not reflected on the destination - even after a SM update. Last year I wrote about this http://www.vmadmin.info/2011/04/shrinking-snapmirror-destination.html and the solution at the time was to break the SM to have the destination space reclaimed. But is there a better method? This script shows I have volumes with space reclaimable: ssh na01 -l root vol status -b | awk '{print $0" diff = "($3-$4)*4096/1024/1024" gb"}' Volume Block Size (bytes) Vol Size (blocks) FS Size (blocks) ------ ------------------ ------------------ ---------------- vol0 4096 78643200 78643200 diff = 0 gb pweb 4096 249036800 249036800 diff = 0 gb vm64 4096 810675078 805306368 diff = 20971.5 gb eweb2 4096 13369344 13107200 diff = 1024 gb sbackup2 4096 311951361 308543488 diff = 13312 gb vds 4096 191365120 180879360 diff = 40960 gb svm2 4096 563714458 563714458 diff = 0 gb sarchive 4096 562141594 549034394 diff = 51200 gb svm4 4096 629145600 603979776 diff = 98304 gb vb2 4096 2883584 2685440 diff = 774 gb cldb 4096 1184890880 1184104448 diff = 3072 gb cl2 4096 1848377344 939524096 diff = 3550208 gb thanks

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Cluster mode - Market vs field
by Milazzo Giacomo 22 Jun '12

22 Jun '12

Hi all, I've recently attended an official event where people from NetApp in few words said: "DOT 8 7-mode has done its time, it's over, it has been a great os but It's now time to move and push DOT 8 Cluster Mode, everytime, everywhere..." and this also if with a simple two node HA system, including 2220! What do you think about? Also let us assume that cluster mode can (I add 'theoretically') do all what 7 mode does, don't you think that is quite premature to trumpet this out? Regards,

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RE: QLogic HBA firmware
by Jon Hill 18 Jun '12

18 Jun '12

Thanks. I did read up a bit on fcinfo and was considering it for my 2003 servers. I've learned that 2008 includes much of the fcinfo functionality already. I don't know about command-line utilities, but if you're familiar with wmi then you can get everything you need, including the firmware (which was what I was looking for). The script below should work with 2003 servers that have fcinfo installed, but I've only tested it with 2008R2 servers that didn't. astrServers=Array("server1", "server2") For Each strServer In astrServers Call main(strServer) Next Sub main(strServer) WScript.Echo "===" & strServer strWMI = "winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strServer & "\root/wmi" Set oWbemServices = GetObject(strWMI) Set enumSetAdapters = oWbemServices.InstancesOf("MSFC_FCAdapterHBAAttributes") Set enumSetPorts = oWbemServices.InstancesOf("MSFC_FibrePortHBAAttributes") nIndex = 0 On Error Resume next For Each oEltAdapter in enumSetAdapters sAdapterName = oEltAdapter.MfgDomain & _ " - " & oEltAdapter.Model & " - " & nIndex WScript.Echo "adapter: " & sAdapterName 'WScript.Echo " node_wwn: " & WWNToString(oEltAdapter.NodeWWN) WScript.Echo " node_firmware: " & oEltAdapter.FirmwareVersion 'WScript.Echo " node_manuf: " & oEltAdapter.Manufacturer 'WScript.Echo " node_serial: " & oEltAdapter.SerialNumber 'WScript.Echo " node_model: " & oEltAdapter.Model 'WScript.Echo " node_symbolicName: " & oEltAdapter.NodeSymbolicName 'WScript.Echo " node_driverversion: " & oEltAdapter.HardwareVersion 'WScript.Echo " node_optionROMVersion: " & oEltAdapter.OptionROMVersion 'WScript.Echo " node_firmwareVersion: " & oEltAdapter.FirmwareVersion 'WScript.Echo " node_vendorSpecificID: " & oEltAdapter.VendorSpecificID 'WScript.Echo " node_numPorts: " & oEltAdapter.NumberOfPorts 'WScript.Echo " node_DriverName: " & oEltAdapter.DriverName 'For Each oEltPort in enumSetPorts ' If (oEltAdapter.InstanceName = oEltPort.InstanceName) Then ' WScript.Echo "port " & Index ' WScript.Echo " port_wwn: " & WWNToString(oEltPort.Attributes.PortWWN) ' WScript.Echo ' nIndex = nIndex + 1 ' End If 'Next Next End sub ' (VBScript) Function WWNToString(arrayWWN) WWNToString = Hex0(arrayWWN(0)) For I = 1 To 7 WWNToString = WWNToString & ":" & Hex0(arrayWWN(I)) Next End Function Function Hex0(n) Hex0 = Hex(n) If (n < &h10) Then Hex0 = "0" & Hex0 End Function For 2003, I discovered that sdcli (the SnapDrive cli, which I have installed on almost all SAN-attached servers) includes hba_info.exe, which provides all the information I want. It requires a little more formatting, but the advantage for me is that I don't need to install anything else. I'm having trouble finding a resource to download a version of scli that is compatible with my QMH2462 cards, but since I have hba_info I don't think I need to think about it any further. -----Original Message----- From: John Constable [mailto:jc18@sanger.ac.uk] Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 5:29 AM To: Jon Hill Cc: toasters(a)teaparty.net Subject: Re: QLogic HBA firmware On 15 Jun 2012, at 16:38, Jon Hill wrote: > We're in the middle of a fairly urgent process to review and remediate our servers' compatibility with onTAP 7.3.3p6. We've got everything we need except HBA firmware levels. Does anyone know of a good WMI query we could run against multiple servers that would return the HBA firmware level? Most of the HBAs are HP-OEM'd QMH2462, running under Window 2003 and 2008R2. > > I'm looking into SANSurfer, but if I can avoid adding new software to my servers then that would be preferred. > > Apologies if you've already seen and discounted this, but you may be able to get this via the FCInfo or SCLI programs, there's a powershell example here; http://theolddogscriptingblog.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/powershell-sans-exce… You may be able to avoid installing the software by putting it on a read only share and calling the binary direct via UNC? Not tried myself (yet), but its something I'm looking into, so would be interested to hear if you got it working without s/w installs.. cheers John -- John Constable, Storage Team Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK This e-mail, including any attachment(s), is intended solely for use by the named addressee(s). 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QLogic HBA firmware
by Jon Hill 18 Jun '12

18 Jun '12

We're in the middle of a fairly urgent process to review and remediate our servers' compatibility with onTAP 7.3.3p6. We've got everything we need except HBA firmware levels. Does anyone know of a good WMI query we could run against multiple servers that would return the HBA firmware level? Most of the HBAs are HP-OEM'd QMH2462, running under Window 2003 and 2008R2. I'm looking into SANSurfer, but if I can avoid adding new software to my servers then that would be preferred. Thanks. This e-mail, including any attachment(s), is intended solely for use by the named addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to disclose, copy, distribute or retain this message, without written authorization from Jennison Associates LLC ("Jennison"). This e-mail may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged information. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately. If you have requested Jennison to e-mail any account information to you or your designee, you are deemed to have consented to electronic delivery of information from Jennison. E-mail messages are not secure and may contain computer viruses or other defects, may not be accurately replicated on other systems, or may be intercepted, deleted or interfered with without the knowledge of the sender or the intended recipient.

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Disk inventory out of sync.
by Jeff Cleverley 15 Jun '12

15 Jun '12

Greetings, We have a 3140 cluster running 7.3.5.1P4 at one of our sites. There were 2 drive failures (not the same raid group), hot spares kicked in, and the hard drives replaced. Everything seems fine to here. The problem comes in because the partner is showing a disk mismatch. It sees all the drives, but the owner of the replacement drives doesn't in some cases. If I do a "disk show" or an "aggr status -r" on the disk owner, it sees the disks. Any of the "storage show disk <option>" commands on the owner do not show the replacement drives. Will a cluster takeover/giveback wake up the filer or are there any other tricks to get everything on the disk owner to show the drives? Thanks, Jeff -- Jeff Cleverley Unix Systems Administrator 4380 Ziegler Road Fort Collins, Colorado 80525 970-288-4611

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Firmware Automation
by Thomas, Timothy B 13 Jun '12

13 Jun '12

NetApp states this is "unsupported", so I'm posting this here for ideas. For the last 10 years or so we have used a process to automatically download and push disk and shelf firmware to the filers. The process begins with a wget to grab the all.tar file: wget --http-user=userid --http-passwd=password -P /path/to/put/it http://download.netapp.com/download/tools/diskfw/bin/all.gz Now with the recent changes on the support site this year, that method no longer works. I tracked down the new location and tried this: wget --http-user=userid --http-passwd=password -P /path/to/put/it http://support.netapp.com/NOW/download/tools/diskfw/bin/all.gz but it fails, even with a few other flags I tried, the best I could get was a login.html file downloaded. So it's clear that Netapp is redirecting the request for authentication. I looked into wget a further and tried to login, grab the cookies, save them to a file and then use that authentication to grab the file, no luck there either. wget --no-check-certificate --keep-session-cookies --save-cookies cookies.txt --post-data 'user=userid&password=password&postpreservationdata=""' https://login.netapp.com/oamforms/login.html wget --no-check-certificate --load-cookies cookies.txt -P /path/to/put/it http://support.netapp.com/NOW/download/tools/diskfw/bin/all.gz So that's my dilemma. I'm looking for ideas, work arounds, other implementations, anything so I can automate the download of the all.gz and the all_shelf_fw.tar files. >From there my process will continue as before. Thanks in advance! Tim

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