Questions tagged [netapp]
Netapp makes storage: primarily, their Data ONTAP series which does network attached and block storage. Since they acquired Engenio, they also sell block-only devices.
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Are there no downsides to NetApp SAN solutions other than price? [closed]
We have pretty much decided on a NetApp solution for our first SAN. Given that, I've been tasked with finding as much reason not to go with NetApp as I can. We like to do this A) so we know what we're ...
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Can NetApp Snapshots be used as Backups?
Our shop relies very heavily on NetApp Volume Snapshots for backups. We use traditional agent-based tape backups for some of our data but by and large we rely on the Snapshots for the majority of our ...
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Block-level deduplication on Linux
NetApp provides block-level deduplication (ASIS). Do you know any filesystem (even FUSE-based) on Linux (or OpenSolaris, *BSD) that provides the same functionnality ?
(I'm not interested in false ...
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Maximum Number of Files in a Single Directory for Netapp NFS mounts on Linux
On an older Linux box I have, there is an NFS mount of a Netapp. Once there are 100k files in a single directory on this box, files can no longer be written. Anyone know what might be causing this? ...
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NetApp erroring with: STATUS_NOLOGON_WORKSTATION_TRUST_ACCOUNT
Since a sitewide upgrade to Windows 7 on desktop, I've started having a problem with virus checking.
Specifically - when doing a rename operation on a (filer hosted) CIFS share. The virus checker ...
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VMWare ESX and guest settings for Netapp cluster failover
If I'm running VMWare 5.x on FC [edit] LUNs presented from a Netapp running ontap 8.x in 7 mode, what steps should I take to ensure that the VMs can withstand a worst possible case cluster node ...
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NFS client has unbalanced read and write speeds
I've got a NetApp as my nfs server, and two Linux servers as the nfs clients. The problem is that the newer of the two servers has extremely differing read and write speeds whenever it is doing read ...
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NetApp NAS: How to enable encryption?
What are the commands to enable disk encryption on a NetApp NAS, can this be done per disk/array?
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Folder Showing up as a File when viewed via Samba on a NetApp
we want to change files on our NetApp file server, and on every change of these files - a Debian machine duplicates the files to two other shares.
Because of the duplication method we're using lsync, ...
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Should I worry about Split I/O in a SAN?
We have a NetApp Storage system presenting LUNs to a few Hyper-V clusters. When running a system performance trace (in perfmon) on a 2008 R2 there's a warning about a "high level of Split I/O". ...
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How to not move permissions on fileserver file move
I have a problem with a NetApp file server with Windows XP clients.
The files are on a single SAN drive. The users regularly move files from \\storage\share to their personal folder at e.g. \\storage\...
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NetApp Backup Strategy - Snapshots to SnapMirrors to Tape?
In a previous question we discussed the pros and cons of relying exclusively on NetApp snapshots for backups. I now find myself in this situation as our aging legacy Symantec BackupExec tape server ...
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Unable to list new files on a cifs share with ls *
I have an old HP-UX system running version 11.11, it has a cifs mount configured to a netapp filer.
In the past several days we've been seeing some odd behaviour for the share where files can be ...
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Switch Netapp expansion FC port from target to initiator
I have a v3200 with a 4 port FC expansion card. I am trying to switch one (or all, doesn't matter) of those ports from target to initiator. When I execute fcadmin config, I get:
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Netapp raid scrubbing on a V-Series
My V-Series NAS is running ontap 7.3, and gets all its disk from a SAN. LUNs are provisioned to the Netapp, which puts them into a raid-0. The SAN itself, of course, uses RAID with scrubbing and ...
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Mapping Drive Error - System Error 1808
A vendor is attempting to map and preserve a network drive using nt authority/system; so it stays persistent when the interactive session of the server is lost. They were able to do this on one server ...
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vSphere Datastore for specific datatypes: NFS or iSCSI
I am looking into improving performance in my vSphere environment.
We are using a NetApp appliance with all VMs stored in Datastores that are mounted via NFS.
It was suggested to me that, for some ...
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How to check the current queue depth value?
I have an OEL server connected via fibre to a NetApp SAN. How can I view the queue depth as the OS sees it?
Output from lspci:
05:00.0 Fibre Channel: QLogic Corp. ISP2532-based 8Gb Fibre Channel ...
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MySQL 5.1.34 on NFS w/NetApp
Is this still a bad idea? I know older versions of MySQL performed poorly with NFS. I imagine the issue lies with the usage of fsnc() and/or O_DIRECT. If the issues are mostly resolved, are there ...
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Resizing of volumes used as VMWare NFS datastores causes Linux VM issues
We had to perform a live volume resize of an NFS datastores VMWare uses on our Netapp. All of our Windows VMs were fine after the resize. However, some of our Linux VMs had issues.
Some Linux VMs ...
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iscsi multipath on CentOS 7, is it possible with existing partition
I have an ISCSI server (NetApp) with multipath support, initially i login (iscsi login from client) with one controller and created an iscsi partition (sdb) in CentOS 7.
Also i copied some data's ...
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7-Mode snapmirror status post link change
In a Netapp with a snapmirror relationship to another Netapp in 7-mode, what are my options of checking replication performance through Data Ontap? We upgraded the link and want to know how snapmirror ...
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List shares and ACL's on NETAPP Vfiler
Does anyone know of a Powershell script that will list all shares and their ACL's on a NETAPP vfiler?
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kill -9 doesn't work
I have a server with 3 oracle instances on it, and the file system is nfs with netapp. After shutdown the databases, one process for each database doesn't quit for a long time. Each kill -i doesn't ...
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Is Windows (Services for Unix) NFS client "good enough"?
For one of our platforms I have about 20 MSSQL 2K3 machines that need to drop their backups onto a few NetApp boxes (which then copy the backups to other data centres and does long-term storage).
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rename() on NFS atomicity
I've got a process that:
writes a new '.tmp' file.
uses a rename() syscall to replace an existing file.
This file is being accessed from a remote NFS client.
We do this, because we want atomic file ...
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Premature SMB/CIFS Session Close (System error 1312) with Password on SMBv2
In attempting to issue a "net use" to a NetApp share, I'm experiencing a very unique situation.
A particular user is required to issue scans across a CIFS, however that user (which has full read/...
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Joining a NetApp to a domain on a Read Only Domain Controller
I have an isolated network, into which I've built a vfiler. The point of this network is that it's a non routed 'test' network.
However, there's a need for LDAP/Kerberos and CIFS access to the filer,...
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Searching Netapp Network Share in Windows 7
Windows 7 famously does not do what its predecessor, Windows XP, did very well, index and search network drives! Sometimes, the logic of MS isd absolutely baffling.
That siad, I am trying to find ...
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What would cause huge amounts of snapshot lag with NetApp Snapvault?
Our NetApp filer shows huge amounts of lag for snapvault operations. What could be possible causes of such large snapshot lag?
Snapvault is ON.
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NetApp FAS 2040 LDAP Win2k8R2
I am trying to get my FAS2040 to action user lookups using LDAP, below is the filer configuration options:
filer> options ldap
ldap.ADdomain dc1.colour.domain.local
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Any ideas for automatic initial/scripted configuration of a NetApp?
The background is to make a solution where we can automate as much as possible the building up of ‘pods’ that include server/network/storage and that will be built at remote sites.
In an ideal world ...
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Proper Steps to Shutdown NetApp FAS 3020 with Shelves?
I have a netapp with several shelves that is going to have to be moved. Various servers have NFS mounts from it. What is the proper procedure to shut it down and start it up? I would guess shutting ...
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Does a NetApp NAS provide features with VMware compared to a ZFS based NAS?
Are there feature advantages from a VMware point of view to use a NetApp nas instead of a ZFS based NAS running e.g. OmniOS?
Another way to formulate the question: Are there features unlocked when ...
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Max SAS throughput of a disk stack?
I've been trying to figure out something.
I have a stack of SAS shelves (attached to a NetApp if that's relevant). Each devices within the shelf is 6G SAS. According to the vendor, the sustained ...
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Does enabling SMB2 on a NetApp filer require a cifs restart?
I would like to enable SMB2 on a FAS 2050 running Data ONTAP 7.3.2 as by default it is disabled.
I have discovered that to enable SMB2 the following option must be set:
options cifs.smb2.enable on
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How can I rename and change the IP address of a Netapp Filer?
I have an old Netapp filer that I'm migrating all of the NTFS files off of to a new NAS.
I'm going to be setting the new NAS up with the same IP and CIFS server name as the old netapp filer. This ...
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NetApp filer as a resilient HTTP/S server?
I'm an FC SAN kind of guy and although we use NetApp 30xx filers for lots of non-essential storage I'm really no expert.
I have a new requirement for a very resilient (i.e. 3 or 4 '9s') basic static ...
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After resizing a share's quota, why would we need to "resize" the volume?
We have one volume in our NetApp filer with multiple Qtrees that are shared as CIFS. To resize a share we normally:
Modify the quota on the share
Use "resize" command on the volume
Perhaps I'm ...
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Howto align partitions in Linux + NetApp
NetApp support has suggested us to align partitions to improve I/O performance, in short: starting sector must be divisible by 8. How can I move the starting point in a misaligned partition -in ...
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NetApp and SQL Server?
Do you have any good or bad experiences to share running SQL Server OLTP Systems on NetApp appliances? I have been working with a small, relatively low-volume cluster with a lower-end NetApp device, ...
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NetApp cluster fail to start
I have a big problem with my FAS2020 (configured as iScsi storage for 2 esxi 4 server).
I couldn't ping the 2 ip address of the FAS so I connect by the serial port with putty for monitoring the boot ...
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How do I configure a CIFS only NetApp filer for ssh public-private key access?
I've a NetApp filer that's running exclusively CIFS. (/vol/vol0 is CIFS exported)
Account logins via ssh are possible as DOMAIN\username, but we're having difficulty with configuring ssh public-...
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Show IO on Netapp
I think I might be hitting the IO limits of what my Netapp can deliver, as I have been adding more servers to my cluster and iowait has gone up on each server.
However, how do I quantify this? How ...
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Setting up a NetApp as a simple FC LUN carver
For a particular application, I want to configure a NetApp filer (7-mode) to be as close as possible to an old-fashioned storage subsystem without snapshots or fancy features.
vol create vol_ESX -s ...
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List shadowcopy timestamps of netapp
Is there a way (powershell, commandline, api, snmp) to list the snapshot timestamps of a file on a network location.
So i'm searching for an automation of what windows is doing, when you click ...
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Windows - Group Policy - Numerous Share Drives w/ Item-Level Targeting
Overview
We have been working on getting our numerous sites to map share drives for each user that needs access to their sites. We have no way of standardizing this from within their AD profile as ...
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NetApp NFS Exports with all_squash
We've got a NetApp filer (v8.1.4) with a UNIX-style qtree sharing a volume to a number of different machines (web content for a cluster of front-end and application servers) over NFS. We're trying to ...
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Loading of Home taking too long
We have a shared storage from NetApp mounted onto about 80 systems (all running Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit). These days there is some problem with the loading of user homes onto the lab machines (...
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Verify that a NetApp is no longer in use
I'm working on retiring a failing NetApp cluster. It offers iCSCI, NFS, and CIFS volumes to the network. For CIFS, we're fairly under control there. It's a limited set of shares, and there's recent "...
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