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Oracle Volumes and Compression
by Peta Thames 11 Jun '14

11 Jun '14

Hi, I've read that compression works well on volumes hosting Oracle DB data, but I haven't seen it in use anywhere in the wild yet. Is anyone using compression, and if so, what have been your experiences? Cheers, Peta

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AW: FCP Ports operational down
by Alexander Griesser 09 Jun '14

09 Jun '14

I've done that several times so far and unfortunately it doesn't help... Any other ideas? If at least nothing obvious seems to be wrong, I think I'll open a support case on that issue. Alexander Griesser System-Administrator ANEXIA Internetdienstleistungs GmbH Telefon: +43-5-0556-320 Telefax: +43-5-0556-500 E-Mail: ag(a)anexia.at<mailto:ag@anexia.at> Web: http://www.anexia.at<http://www.anexia.at/> Anschrift Hauptsitz Klagenfurt: Feldkirchnerstraße 140, 9020 Klagenfurt Geschäftsführer: Alexander Windbichler Firmenbuch: FN 289918a | Gerichtsstand: Klagenfurt | UID-Nummer: AT U63216601 Von: S Oda [mailto:soda@socal.rr.com] Gesendet: Montag, 09. Juni 2014 18:05 An: Alexander Griesser Betreff: Re: FCP Ports operational down Try stopping and starting the FCP service. On 6/9/14, 6:35 AM, Alexander Griesser wrote: Hi there, I'm having a hard time currently connecting my new FAS8020 to our existing fabric - the FCP ports just won't get online and I'm not sure where exactly the problem is and how to debug that since I'm more the NAS guy not having much practical experience with FCP configurations, so here's the deal for all of you who are wanting to help. FAS8020 Clustered Data Ontap 8.2.1 Brocade DS4900B Brocade Switchport: > portcfgshow 0 Area Number: 0 Speed Level: AUTO(HW) Fill Word: 0(Idle-Idle) AL_PA Offset 13: OFF Trunk Port ON Long Distance OFF VC Link Init OFF Locked L_Port OFF Locked G_Port OFF Disabled E_Port OFF Locked E_Port OFF ISL R_RDY Mode OFF RSCN Suppressed OFF Persistent Disable OFF LOS TOV enable OFF NPIV capability ON QOS E_Port OFF Port Auto Disable: OFF Mirror Port OFF F_Port Buffers OFF Fault Delay: 0(R_A_TOV) NPIV PP Limit: 126 > portshow 0 portIndex: 0 portName: portHealth: OFFLINE Authentication: None portDisableReason: None portCFlags: 0x1 portFlags: 0x1 PRESENT U_PORT LocalSwcFlags: 0x0 portType: 10.0 POD Port: Port is licensed portState: 2 Offline Protocol: FC portPhys: 4 No_Light portScn: 0 port generation number: 0 state transition count: 0 portId: 010000 portIfId: 4302100d portWwn: 20:00:00:05:1e:5b:f9:a3 portWwn of device(s) connected: Distance: normal portSpeed: N4Gbps LE domain: 0 FC Fastwrite: OFF Interrupts: 2 Link_failure: 0 Frjt: 0 Unknown: 0 Loss_of_sync: 0 Fbsy: 0 Lli: 2 Loss_of_sig: 2 Proc_rqrd: 5 Protocol_err: 0 Timed_out: 0 Invalid_word: 0 Rx_flushed: 0 Invalid_crc: 0 Tx_unavail: 0 Delim_err: 0 Free_buffer: 0 Address_err: 0 Overrun: 0 Lr_in: 0 Suspended: 0 Lr_out: 0 Parity_err: 0 Ols_in: 0 2_parity_err: 0 Ols_out: 0 CMI_bus_err: 0 Port part of other ADs: No FCP Adater on NetApp: Node: jetfire Adapter: 1b Description: Fibre Channel Target Adapter 1b (QLogic 8324 (8362), rev. 2, 16G) Physical Protocol: fibre-channel Maximum Speed: 16 Status: link not connected Substatus: ADAPTER UP Host Port Address: 0 Firmware Revision: 6.10.0 Data Link Rate (Gbit): 0 Fabric Established: false Connection Established: loop Mediatype: ptp Configured Speed: 4 Configured State: up Switch Port: : AFAIK, the 16Gbit/s adapter should be backwards compatible to 4Gbit/s, our switch only has 4Gbit/s but it supports NPIV which seems to be a requirement for running Clustered Data Ontap via FC. So, I have no idea what information I should provide upfront for someone who's wanting to help me through get through that, but I'm more than happy to send more info when requested. Thanks, Alexander Griesser System-Administrator ANEXIA Internetdienstleistungs GmbH Telefon: +43-5-0556-320 Telefax: +43-5-0556-500 E-Mail: ag(a)anexia.at<mailto:ag@anexia.at> Web: http://www.anexia.at<http://www.anexia.at/> Anschrift Hauptsitz Klagenfurt: Feldkirchnerstraße 140, 9020 Klagenfurt Geschäftsführer: Alexander Windbichler Firmenbuch: FN 289918a | Gerichtsstand: Klagenfurt | UID-Nummer: AT U63216601 _______________________________________________ Toasters mailing list Toasters(a)teaparty.net<mailto:Toasters@teaparty.net> http://www.teaparty.net/mailman/listinfo/toasters

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AW: FCP Ports operational down
by Alexander Griesser 09 Jun '14

09 Jun '14

FCP service has been created: ANX04-AUTOBOTS::> fcp show -instance Vserver Name: vFCP_jetfire01 Target Name: 20:08:00:a0:98:58:75:bb Administrative Status: up ANX04-AUTOBOTS::fcp> adapter show Connection Host Node Adapter Established Port Address ------------ ------- ----------- ------------ jetfire 0c loop 0 jetfire 0d loop 0 jetfire 1a loop 0 jetfire 1b loop 0 smokescreen 0c loop 0 smokescreen 0d loop 0 smokescreen 1a loop 0 smokescreen 1b loop 0 8 entries were displayed. ANX04-AUTOBOTS::fcp> show Status Vserver Target Name Admin ---------- ---------------------------- ------ vFCP_jetfire01 20:08:00:a0:98:58:75:bb up ANX04-AUTOBOTS::fcp> ucadmin show Current Current Pending Pending Node Adapter Mode Type Mode Type Status ------------ ------- ------- --------- ------- --------- ----------- jetfire 0c cna target - - offline jetfire 0d cna target - - offline jetfire 1a fc target - - online jetfire 1b fc target - - online smokescreen 0c cna target - - offline smokescreen 0d cna target - - offline smokescreen 1a fc target - - online smokescreen 1b fc target - - online 8 entries were displayed. Alexander Griesser System-Administrator ANEXIA Internetdienstleistungs GmbH Telefon: +43-5-0556-320 Telefax: +43-5-0556-500 E-Mail: ag(a)anexia.at<mailto:ag@anexia.at> Web: http://www.anexia.at<http://www.anexia.at/> Anschrift Hauptsitz Klagenfurt: Feldkirchnerstraße 140, 9020 Klagenfurt Geschäftsführer: Alexander Windbichler Firmenbuch: FN 289918a | Gerichtsstand: Klagenfurt | UID-Nummer: AT U63216601 Von: Krieger, Benjamin [mailto:Benjamin.Krieger@netapp.com] Gesendet: Montag, 09. Juni 2014 15:54 An: Adam Levin; Alexander Griesser Cc: Toasters Betreff: RE: FCP Ports operational down Hi, Make sure that you have created an FC service for the vserver owning those LIFs. ::> fcp show If you don’t see an entry, then fcp create. Required to assign a WWNN and bring LIFs online. --Ben From: toasters-bounces(a)teaparty.net<mailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net> [mailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net] On Behalf Of Adam Levin Sent: Monday, June 09, 2014 9:50 AM To: Alexander Griesser Cc: Toasters Subject: Re: FCP Ports operational down I'm not too familiar with Brocades -- we have Cisco -- but the first thing that caught my eye was trunk port being enabled. I don't think you want that, especially also for NPIV. You need an F port or an N port, not an E port. E ports are expansion ports, for ISL (inter-switch linking), and connect two switches together. F ports are fabric ports, and are used for point-to-point connections (hosts, storage systems, etc). N ports are node ports, similar to F ports, used for point-to-point or switched fabrics. For you, Fx or G port types should also work, and I think Brocades have U ports too, but I'm not too familiar. -Adam On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Alexander Griesser <ag(a)anexia.at<mailto:ag@anexia.at>> wrote: Hi there, I’m having a hard time currently connecting my new FAS8020 to our existing fabric – the FCP ports just won‘t get online and I’m not sure where exactly the problem is and how to debug that since I’m more the NAS guy not having much practical experience with FCP configurations, so here’s the deal for all of you who are wanting to help. FAS8020 Clustered Data Ontap 8.2.1 Brocade DS4900B Brocade Switchport: > portcfgshow 0 Area Number: 0 Speed Level: AUTO(HW) Fill Word: 0(Idle-Idle) AL_PA Offset 13: OFF Trunk Port ON Long Distance OFF VC Link Init OFF Locked L_Port OFF Locked G_Port OFF Disabled E_Port OFF Locked E_Port OFF ISL R_RDY Mode OFF RSCN Suppressed OFF Persistent Disable OFF LOS TOV enable OFF NPIV capability ON QOS E_Port OFF Port Auto Disable: OFF Mirror Port OFF F_Port Buffers OFF Fault Delay: 0(R_A_TOV) NPIV PP Limit: 126 > portshow 0 portIndex: 0 portName: portHealth: OFFLINE Authentication: None portDisableReason: None portCFlags: 0x1 portFlags: 0x1 PRESENT U_PORT LocalSwcFlags: 0x0 portType: 10.0 POD Port: Port is licensed portState: 2 Offline Protocol: FC portPhys: 4 No_Light portScn: 0 port generation number: 0 state transition count: 0 portId: 010000 portIfId: 4302100d portWwn: 20:00:00:05:1e:5b:f9:a3 portWwn of device(s) connected: Distance: normal portSpeed: N4Gbps LE domain: 0 FC Fastwrite: OFF Interrupts: 2 Link_failure: 0 Frjt: 0 Unknown: 0 Loss_of_sync: 0 Fbsy: 0 Lli: 2 Loss_of_sig: 2 Proc_rqrd: 5 Protocol_err: 0 Timed_out: 0 Invalid_word: 0 Rx_flushed: 0 Invalid_crc: 0 Tx_unavail: 0 Delim_err: 0 Free_buffer: 0 Address_err: 0 Overrun: 0 Lr_in: 0 Suspended: 0 Lr_out: 0 Parity_err: 0 Ols_in: 0 2_parity_err: 0 Ols_out: 0 CMI_bus_err: 0 Port part of other ADs: No FCP Adater on NetApp: Node: jetfire Adapter: 1b Description: Fibre Channel Target Adapter 1b (QLogic 8324 (8362), rev. 2, 16G) Physical Protocol: fibre-channel Maximum Speed: 16 Status: link not connected Substatus: ADAPTER UP Host Port Address: 0 Firmware Revision: 6.10.0 Data Link Rate (Gbit): 0 Fabric Established: false Connection Established: loop Mediatype: ptp Configured Speed: 4 Configured State: up Switch Port: : AFAIK, the 16Gbit/s adapter should be backwards compatible to 4Gbit/s, our switch only has 4Gbit/s but it supports NPIV which seems to be a requirement for running Clustered Data Ontap via FC. So, I have no idea what information I should provide upfront for someone who’s wanting to help me through get through that, but I’m more than happy to send more info when requested. Thanks, Alexander Griesser System-Administrator ANEXIA Internetdienstleistungs GmbH Telefon: +43-5-0556-320<tel:%2B43-5-0556-320> Telefax: +43-5-0556-500<tel:%2B43-5-0556-500> E-Mail: ag(a)anexia.at<mailto:ag@anexia.at> Web: http://www.anexia.at<http://www.anexia.at/> Anschrift Hauptsitz Klagenfurt: Feldkirchnerstraße 140, 9020 Klagenfurt Geschäftsführer: Alexander Windbichler Firmenbuch: FN 289918a | Gerichtsstand: Klagenfurt | UID-Nummer: AT U63216601 _______________________________________________ Toasters mailing list Toasters(a)teaparty.net<mailto:Toasters@teaparty.net> http://www.teaparty.net/mailman/listinfo/toasters

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Reallocate in ONTAP 8.2
by Peta Thames 05 Jun '14

05 Jun '14

Hi, Reallocate has been like a magic performance-improving wand for me in the past (and thanks to members of this list for that). However I believe later versions of ONTAP have lessened the need for regular reallocation. Is that the case, or is it worth running regular reallocate measures? What's people's experience with ONTAP 8.2 and reallocation? Cheers, Peta

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Backing up NetApp running CDOT with TSM
by jamesr 03 Jun '14

03 Jun '14

All, I've done a lot of browsing around of both NetApp resources and TSM resources and can't find an answer to this. This has lead me to this mailing list! We are currently deploying a NetApp FAS 8040 with around 500TB of disk behind it and we use TSM as a backup solution. Does anyone have a similar setup? How are you backing it up with TSM? Do you have configuration notes you'd be willing to share? We've looked at Snapdiff but this is unsupported with CDOT presently (http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21633171) So I think we are looking down the NDMP route - however I'm not sure of exact implementation details of this... do we need to dedicate tape drives to this? What are its limitations? How do file restores work? etc. etc. etc. Anyone that can provide any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Cheers.

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SAS controller limitations.
by Jeff Cleverley 01 Jun '14

01 Jun '14

Greetings, A while back there was a known issue with the SAS controller. Each chip that controlled 2 ports would only address 128 devices. That included shelf controllers so technically 5 ds2246 shelves would exceed the limit and could cause some slowness. I was told that they changed this behavior in 8.1 and possibly upgrading the firmware, so that it only kept active devices in the list. I was told those devices would be removed when not active and so there was no need to keep the smaller shelf limit. Is this the case, or do I still need to try to limit each chip to 5 shelves or less? I'm running 8.1.2P4 and the cards are running 01.11.00.00. Thanks, Jeff -- Jeff Cleverley Unix Systems Administrator 4380 Ziegler Road Fort Collins, Colorado 80525 970-288-4611

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Oracle access and backups
by Jeff Cleverley 28 May '14

28 May '14

Greetings, My Oracle experience with and without NetApp has largely been non-existent. Please bear with me on this. All of our current DBs are on dedicated servers with locally attached storage. One of our groups has a 6280 cluster running 8.1.2P4 7-mode. They want to look into using iscsi to a new 11.2 Oracle server. The cluster can get pretty busy at times so I'm not sure Oracle NFS will work in this case. The questions are largely about backups and DR. I'm curious about how most people choose to back this up and how to recover for that solution. I know there are lun copy options, snapmanager/flex clone options, etc. We're very open to manual scripting and custom solutions. Backups would most likely go to a NearStore, and the DR would be a second server connected via iscsi also. Thanks, Jeff -- Jeff Cleverley Unix Systems Administrator 4380 Ziegler Road Fort Collins, Colorado 80525 970-288-4611

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OnCommand Balance Question
by Ray Van Dolson 23 May '14

23 May '14

Running OnCommand Balance 4.1.0.2.9 Not an expert with it tool and looking for a "quick" fix here, though obviously reading through the manual more thoroughly is on the TODO list (Google search didn't net me anything). Overnight, have had some growth on one of our VMware volumes (NFS attached volume). System Management Console shows that heavier than normal write activity began overnight and is ongoing. Balance shows the same, but I'd like to see which VM living on the volume is responsible for the writes. I'm not seeing an obvious way to do this in Balance, however. At the volume level view there's a Servers tab, but it doesn't show anything helpful. The Capacity tab shows trend information for the entire volume only. On the Servers tab I can click on individual "servers" (VM's) and view some information about disk activity (though it doesn't break it out into read/write), but this is a bit on the tedious side. Was hoping Balance would make it easy to track down the source of this sort of activity. Any ideas? Ray

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Migrating from copper gigabit to fiber 10Gb
by Laurent CARON 19 May '14

19 May '14

Hi, I'm currently planning to migrate my FAS2240's ggiabit links to 10Gb links. Since the 10Gb cards are already in place in the filers, the physical part is already done. I'm currently using the 4 Gb links (e0a -> e0d) as a LACP connection to a stack of juniper devices. Providing the config is OK on the switch, what woule be the best way to migrate with the minimum downtime ? I'm planning the following (on each node of the box): - make sure config on the 10Gb ports of the switch is good - plug fibers on both sides - login via console port - cf disable - ifgrp destroy LAG_CIFS - ifgrp create lacp LAG_CIFS -b ip e1a e1b - cf enable Would it do the job ? Would I need to restart services like iSCSI/NFS/CIFS/.... ? Thanks

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Migrating from 7-Mode to CDOT without downtime
by Alexander Griesser 18 May '14

18 May '14

Hey there, we're getting a new FAS8020 during the next weeks and my task now is to move all the data on our current 7 mode filers onto the new one. I've already made non disruptive plans for the VMware datastores and all the NFS shares, so that's not an issue anymore - but I'm wondering about how to non disruptively migrate my iSCSI LUNs presented to my microsoft failover clusters. Any ideas on that? I'm thinking about setting up some kind of software RAID 1 (if that's supported) on the host side with the new and the old LUNs like we did back in the good old days when we used Veritas volume manager on EMC boxes, but I'm not sure if that's a supported scenario. I'm pretty sure some of you have gone through that already so I would be thankful for any ideas in that regard. Best, Alexander Griesser System-Administrator ANEXIA Internetdienstleistungs GmbH Telefon: +43-5-0556-320 Telefax: +43-5-0556-500 E-Mail: ag(a)anexia.at<mailto:ag@anexia.at> Web: http://www.anexia.at<http://www.anexia.at/> Anschrift Hauptsitz Klagenfurt: Feldkirchnerstraße 140, 9020 Klagenfurt Geschäftsführer: Alexander Windbichler Firmenbuch: FN 289918a | Gerichtsstand: Klagenfurt | UID-Nummer: AT U63216601

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