Hello,

We have a NetApp CVO instance deployed using compute engine in our GCP environment. I need to send logs from this instance to Google SecOps. Could you please let me know what options are available? Additionally, does NetApp provide any built-in integrations that allow logs to be sent directly to Google SecOps?

Thanks!

Hi Team,
We are currently setting up the IHCAZ CV4 lab environment in Azure. The lab guide specifies Standard_E4ds_v4 for CVO and Standard_E8ds_v4 for CVOHA. However, Azure has informed us that these VM sizes are currently under growth control and are not available for our subscription. Could you please confirm whether any other supported Azure VM sizes with similar specifications can be used as alternatives for CVO and CVOHA?

If yes, could you please recommend the appropriate VM sizes that we can use?

Thank you.

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Hi All.  We're looking for ways and strategy to migrate PBs of data from on-prem NetApp Arrays to Public Cloud - AWS/Azure.

What are the considerations to be taken and methodology to be used for successful migration.  We want to know what will be best approach, and probably want to do an initial assessment first. And which tool to use:  NetApp Cloud Sync or NetApp CVO or Azure NetApp Files or Amazon FSx or anything else.  Or, first we need to use BlueXP DataSense to investigate.  Does DataSense also migrates. And, are these all work in tandem together  or are separate entities.  What other options are available for a successful on-prem to Cloud migrations. 

Please advise.   Thank You.

Are there any api's available to access or any planned SIEM integration capabilities for NetApp Console SaaS logs .

Hi,
Does anyone know what powershell command to use to find the "cloud tier used" of a particular volume on CVO?
I have tried get-ncvol, but cannot locate anything that even looks similar to the figure shown in System Manager.
I'm using NetApp.ONTAP powershell module version 9.16.1.2501
Many thanks 

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, businesses are increasingly moving their workloads to the cloud for scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency. Microsoft Azure, with its robust suite of cloud services, has become a go-to platform for enterprises looking to modernize their IT infrastructure. In particular, the Azure VMware Solution (AVS) stands out for organizations looking to extend or migrate their on-premises VMware environments to the cloud.

To further enhance the capabilities of AVS, the NetApp product folks are integrating AVS with NetApp’s Cloud Volumes ONTAP which will provide significant benefits in terms of data migration, consistent operations, and cloud flexibility.

Are you an ONTAP customer with existing virtual on-premises block environments who intends to migrate to Microsoft Azure? We are currently seeking these NetApp customers to participate as early adopters of this winning integration!

Understanding Microsoft Azure VMware Solution + NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Azure VMware Solution is a Microsoft service that enables you to run VMware workloads natively on Microsoft Azure. It provides a seamless way to extend or migrate your existing on-premises VMware environment to Azure without the need to re-architect your applications or retool your operations.

Cloud Volumes ONTAP is self-managed, unified storage software that harnesses the power of NetApp’s flagship ONTAP management software in the cloud. Cloud Volumes ONTAP enables you to easily build storage for mission-critical applications, databases, containers, and user files in Microsoft Azure. And, as a premier block storage solution in Microsoft Azure, Cloud Volumes ONTAP iSCSI support will provide an easy path for NetApp ONTAP customers migrating their VMware block storage to the cloud.

Integrating Microsoft Azure VMware Solution with Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Combining the Microsoft AVS with Cloud Volumes ONTAP can provide a powerful and flexible cloud storage solution that is especially well-suite for scaling block-based VMware environments to Microsoft Azure, while offering the following additional benefits:

• Seamless migration. Migrate your VMware block-based workloads to Cloud Volumes ONTAP in Microsoft Azure without the heavy uplift or workarounds.
• Consistent operations. Manage Microsoft Azure-based VMware with Cloud Volumes ONTAP using familiar processes and tools.
• Hybrid cloud flexibility. Extend your NetApp on-premises block storage to Microsoft Azure for seamless hybrid cloud

Calling on NetApp ONTAP users: The NetApp product team is seeking ONTAP customers with existing VMware on-premises block environments who intend to migrate to Microsoft Azure. Customers with this qualification can participate in the early testing of our AVS and Cloud Volumes ONTAP integration and will receive “white glove” onboarding of this tested solution with the ability to directly influence how the feature will be deployed once publicly available.

Our only ask is for you to attend a bi-weekly 30-minute product and architecture call with our product and engineering teams where you can have a direct impact on how this joint solution will work while influencing our roadmap.

Interested? Contact our product team lead, Michal Gliksman, or your sales representative to get started.

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Hello Community, I have a question about CVO storage instances and backend upgrade in Trident, recently one of the CVO instances created an aggr and moved a Volume to the new aggr automatically (Capacity Management Mode = Automatic), but a week later, I checked the backend in Trident and saw that the new created aggr was reflected in the Trident backend (lika  automatically).

  my undertanding is.. the only way to  reflect a new aggr  in trident bckend is updating the backend with a json:

      tridentctl update backend <backend_name> -f backend-file.json -n trident

 or  Between Trident and CVO Storages, is there a scheduled task to update the backend?

Thanks in Advance Community

can we use AWS FSxN for fabric pool like. The objective is to reduce the onprem capacity

Exciting news! NetApp customer Willis Towers Watson (WTW) has been named the Overall Winner in Digital Infrastructure by the prestigious IDC Future Enterprise North America Awards.

About the Awards

The IDC Future Enterprise Award for Digital Infrastructure recognizes the organization that is leading the use of digital infrastructure to transform their business, engage customers and employees, and accelerate business innovation.

The submission centered on how NetApp enabled WTW to successfully migrate from on-premises data centers to the cloud, resulting in streamlined data access, reduced costs, improved user experience, and scalability—all while maintaining data integrity and security.

• NetApp Cloud Sync: WTW utilized the syncing capabilities of NetApp Cloud Sync to seamlessly migrate heterogeneous storage, including entire data sets (application and file-share data), to Azure Cloud.
• Cloud Volumes ONTAP for Azure: CVO played a crucial role as the backbone of the project. It provided scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure, allowing WTW to securely consolidate silos of file servers into a cohesive global storage footprint in Azure.

Congrats on the win, WTW!

I have a volume that I want to move from one tiered aggregate to another, just created, tiered aggregate. The volume's footprint looks like this:

Total Footprint: 5.45TB
Total Footprint Percent:
Containing Aggregate Size: 5.32TB
Name for bin0: Performance Tier
Volume Footprint for bin0: 143.8GB
Volume Footprint bin0 Percent: 3%
Name for bin1: S3Bucket
Volume Footprint for bin1: 5.27TB
Volume Footprint bin1 Percent: 97%

I was under the impression that I could move this volume from one tiered aggregate to another, and the only thing that would move would be the 143.8GB in the Performance Tier, but that is not what is happening. The volume move is moving the entire volume. Shouldn't the move just be copying the 143.8GB in bin0?

--Carl

Hello

Data that was being loaded into on-premise storage is also being loaded into the CVO environment.
I expected the same efficiency ratio as on-premise.
However, even though the data is in the same format, the efficiency ratio is found to be 0 in CVO. (excluding snapshots)

Hello,

I would like to re-launch some accreditations that I passed but it's not working. Is there a way for re-launch ?

Regards,

Gilles

Hello,

We launch a Ontap upgrade (from 9.12.1P9 to 9.13.1P9), just by changing the following line in tf filer:

  #ontap_version                   = "ONTAP-9.12.1P9.T1.gcpha"

  ontap_version                   = "ONTAP-9.13.1P9.T1.gcpha"

The terrform pipeline applied failed with a timeout error after 1h:

ERROR: Job failed: execution took longer than1h0m0s seconds

Even if the pipeline failed, the Ontap upgrade was done successfully on the CVO HA

We have run again the pipeline until the “Plan” phase only and the pipeline is planning to go for Ontap upgrade again.

How to have synchronization in between the terraform state and the CVO state ?

Should we “apply” again the Ontap upgrade or "import" the CVO state in terraform ?

We have increase the project level time out:

Was 1h

Is now 2h.

Thank you for you help,

Regards

VG

Hi All,

We need to upgrade the cloud manager from 9.13  - 9.14.1 , is there any prerequites before we can go for an upgrade

like any IMT checks, we only have cifs share in environment . will there be any downtime required while upgrade

hi Community,  any document about the standar filter rulues in CVO for monitring?

Hi NetApp cloud gurus,

I have created several volumes as part of the lab (Cloud Volumes ONTAP Deployment in a Hybrid Environment v2.0). Than I wanted to mount created nfs shares (in Google Cloud Platform)  from the linux jumphost without success. Of course, there are a completely different IP addresses, so maybe some additional adjustments are needed to make it work. Is it technically possible to try to mount the created NFS share within these NetApp labs?

i figured out, that currently netapp have no solution for  sending secure mails via smtp... they working on SMTP STARTTLS, which is coming years too late (exists since 1999) and have security gaps.... But they are not working on Implicit TLS... can be funnny if your company decides to allow only Implicit TLS.... But somebody at Netapp is sleeping very well with this topic and should be wake up.... so i would say: good morning netapp: there is something to do with this must have feature!

In FabricPool, ontap 9.5p3, Writes from the capacity tier to the performance tier are disabled if performance tier capacity is
greater than 70%. If this occurs, blocks are accessed directly from the capacity tier. 

Can I change or increase 70% the parameter?

Are there anyway I can tell if the data is being pulled back? because I wanted to monitor the data flow and performance.

Anybody has experiences the speed to write data back, if the data got accessed?

Thanks

- NKS v1.14.6 w/ RBAC (10.140.0.41-43)

- CM OnCommand Cloud Manager 3.7.3 (10.140.0.10)

- The two are in the same subnet. When CM installs Trident (v19.4) it creates a Trident namespace in the cluster, but then it times out like this.

Command execution failed (returned 1): level=info msg="Created installer service account." serviceaccount=trident-installer, level=info msg="Waiting for object to be created." objectName=clusterRole, level=info msg="Created installer cluster role." clusterrole=trident-installer, level=info msg="Waiting for object to be created." objectName=clusterRoleBinding, level=info msg="Created installer cluster role binding." clusterrolebinding=trident-installer, level=info msg="Created installer configmap." configmap=trident-installer, level=info msg="Waiting for object to be created." objectName=installerPod, level=info msg="Created installer pod." pod=trident-installer, level=info msg="Waiting for Trident installer pod to start.", level=info msg="Trident installer pod started." namespace=trident pod=trident-installer, level=info msg="Starting storage driver." backend=/setup/backend.json, level=error msg="API invocation failed. Post https://10.140.0.9/servlets/netapp.servlets.admin.XMLrequest_filer: net/http: request canceled while waiting for connection (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers)", level=error msg="Could not initialize storage driver." error="error initializing ontap-nas driver: could not create Data ONTAP API client: error reading SVM details: Post https://10.140.0.9/servlets/netapp.servlets.admin.XMLrequest_filer: net/http: request canceled while waiting for connection (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers)", level=fatal msg="Install failed; could not start the storage backend driver; problem initializing storage driver 'ontap-nas': error initializing ontap-nas driver: could not create Data ONTAP API client: error reading SVM details: Post https://10.140.0.9/servlets/netapp.servlets.admin.XMLrequest_filer: net/http: request canceled while waiting for connection (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers). Resolve the issue; use 'tridentctl uninstall' to clean up; and try again."

I tried to create some relaxed ingress and egress rules between NKS VMs and CVO Project (CM & CVO) but that didn't help.

What else should be checked?

In Cloud Manager, for CVO in AWS, you can find a "Cost" tab between "Volume" and "Replications" tabs, which show you the AWS Monthly Cost.

However, how do I find the same monthly cost for CVO in Azure? There seems no such tab or option.

Thanks for your advice!

We have implemented CIS policies in our Azure subscriptions. Our installation of CVO is showing a few items we are not compliant with. Trying to get some guidance on what will happen if we do set the settings, so they are compliant. 

I found Doc on setting up Customer managed Keys but cant find information on the other settings. 

Hello Team,

I am working to setup a new CVO instance on GCP so I am going to create a single node instance via BlueXP console.

At this moment I have some concerns about the network, I see that only one VPC is required

https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/bluexp-cloud-volumes-ontap/reference-networking-gcp.html#requirements-for-cloud-volumes-ontap 

then I will have ONTAP mgmt interfaces AND data interface on the same network subnet.

How this sound for you?

Does it may be better to have the management interfaces on a different subnet?

When creating a new Agger on CVO in Azure what are some best practices for number of disk we should be using?

Is it the same as a HW device the more disk the better the performance. Do we need multiple disk for redundancy, is Raid-DP being used?

We are using the following Doc to try set up encryption using Azure Key vault

https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/cloud-manager-cloud-volumes-ontap/task-azure-key-vault.html#configuration-process

We continually get the following error. We have tried to recreate setup following doc multiple times. We are using private-links and able to resolve them. Is there any additional commands that can be run to narrow down issue

Category: service_reachability
Status: FAILED
Details: Azure Key Vault operation "get" failed. Cryptsoft error: "BAD_DATA".
Issue (privilege: diag) "security key-manager
external <akv|aws|gcp|ikp> invoke" for more
information.

I would like to temporarily create a capacity of 300 TiB or more with CVO for verification purposes and check if ONTAP S3 can be built.Can CVO create capacities greater than 300 TiB of actual capacity?
Thank you very much.

We found that the http protocol is used to retrieve firmware images by filers from the connectors.

This protocol is also used to upload configuration backups.

Is there a way to change the configuration and use https?

Hello,

we have a working Netapp Setup with FAS2720 9.7P9 Version connected to Fujitsu ESXi (VMWare 5.5). With multiple VMs running on 3 ESXi Systems but they are residing entirely on Netapp Storage.

We are thinking of moving this entire setup to private Cloud. This cloud is currently owned by one of our departments and are ready to give us space(in terms of storage) and ESXis(VMI Cluster) to run our VMs on a rental basis. So immediate advantage for us is more space, more network speed, DR Setup and not anymore worry about the hardware. Their hardware consists of Nimble Cluster Storage, Synergy 12000 Blades.

Ofcourse it is in discussion phase but I still would like to ask you experts following questions. 

1. Is this really so advisable the way it is projected?

2. Netapp Storage does support cloud. So technically it should be possible to migrate the data. What is the best strategy for this? Do we require additional licenses?

3. Netapp Storage is all about data plus its configuration (Snapshot, User Quota Policies, Export Rules etc.). When we talk about storage space in cloud, then how are we going to control/administrate the configuration parts listed above? Or will this not be anymore possible to administrate? And the Cloud administrators take this control in their hands and we have to be dependant on them for every configuration changes? This is very important factor.

4. Will VMs running on Netapp Storage be migrated without much efforts? Is there any documented method for this?

Your view on this will be really helpful.

Thanx in advance.

Regards,

Admin

we are unable to created cluster peer between FSx to on premise. getting below error.

Please help me on this.

FsxIdxxxxxxxxxxxx::> cluster peer create -address-family ipv4 -peer-addrs 10.x.x.x,10.x.x.x,10.x.x.x,10.x.x.x

Notice: Use a generated passphrase or choose a passphrase of 8 or more characters. To ensure the authenticity of the peering relationship, use a phrase or
sequence of characters that would be hard to guess.

Enter the passphrase:
Confirm the passphrase:

The passphrases do not match. Enter the passphrase, then confirm it by entering the same passphrase again.

Enter the passphrase:
Confirm the passphrase:

Error: command failed: Using peer-address 10.x.x.x: An introductory RPC to the peer address "10.x.x.x" failed: RPC: Unable to receive [from mgwd on
node "FsxIdxxxxxxxxxxxx-01" (VSID: -1) to xcintro at 10.x.x.x]. Verify that the peer address is correct, and then try the operation again.

I had last weeks strange permission issues on a mixed folder

CIFS: Shared: No NTFS Permission was displayed - the share was via CLI displayed with effective permissions "unix" and in unix the share hat nobody:nobody  which means that it was not possible to chown user and group via nfs and it was only possible to display the share via CIFS / Windows but it was not possiblke to open the files in the folder...

I tried to find the right command in the documentation to change permissions directly on the volume... but it needs to long time for me and in there was a faster solution - i got access with domainadministrator - and i copied the files to a new folder - where the permissions was generated right and then i deleted the old folder...

but whats are the right cli  to change cifs and nfs  permissions on subfolder and filelevel