Good Morning All, Just looking for a bit of an clarification here. We have a NetAppAFF-A150 running a CIFS/SMB SVM serving some windows network shares for us. Each of our shares has been given their own volume which we can scale up as needed. One of our volumes has been provided with 750gb of space. When looking at the share for the volume it is showing as ~75% filled at 563/750 gb used. However when I actually highlight all of my subfolders within the share and check their space used via properties, it only comes out to about 411gb. My initial thought was that snapshots must be making up the difference, however then I remembered that snapshots are just "pointers" to where the data is so they shouldn't take up much space (at least I think so? Please correct me if I'm wrong!). I just wanted to do my due diligence and see if any of you saw this offset in storage space as normal, or if it is something I should do further digging on. Thank you!
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As per latest PowerShell tool kit 9.14.1.2401, Cmdlet "New-NcFlexcache" shows Flexcache feature is not supported in ONTAP 8.3, so this cmdlet works in ONTAP 8.2 or lower only. I would like to know how to use FlexCache from PowerShell for latest ONTAP versions. Details: PS > Get-help New-NcFlexcache -full NAME New-NcFlexcache SYNOPSIS Create cluster-wide caching for a given volume. SYNTAX New-NcFlexcache [-Vserver] <String> [-OriginVolume] <String> [-Controller <NcController[]>] [-InformationAction <ActionPreference>] [-InformationVariable <String>] [-PipelineVariable <String>] [-ZapiRetryCount <Int32>] [<CommonParameters>] DESCRIPTION Create cluster-wide caching for a given volume. Flexcache feature is not supported in ONTAP 8.3, so this cmdlet works in ONTAP 8.2 or lower only.
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Customer have a environment, that have very much small file, just like log file, every file's size just a few KB, I want to recommend they use C250, But they ask how the ONTAP to accelerate the small file's read and write behavior? Anyone know about the answers? Thanks
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We have enabled SNMP on all of our NetApp clusters over the years. Now I would like to disable it as I'm aware it is considered insecure. Is there any loss of functionality in the following NetApp tools / features if I disable it? Is there any way to easily determine if it's being used in some way? Active IQ Active IQ Unified Manager (in particular the EMS Events functionality) OnTAP Tools SnapCenter SnapCenter Plug-In for VMware PowerShell Toolkit
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Hello, I am testing the MAV (Multi-Admin Verify) feature. I just stumbled across the limitation that it doesn't work with SnapCenter yet, so that leaves our CIFS Servers. I set up a rule with the following parameters: Operation "volume snapshot delete" Query "-vserver <vserver>" (where "<vserver>" is the CIFS Server) However, my test SnapCenter job, which runs against volumes in a different SVM, still kicks off multiple MAV requests when it tries to auto-delete older snapshots outside of the retention period. Did I miss something in the syntax? Any advice?
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