Gents

I have done a factory reset on my FAS 2020 old system and after that i have lost my FC and ISCSI licences.

Please advise is there anyway i can use this system ?

Im pretty green and still learning alot about netapp, had a disk fail, So i replaced it with a disk i already had unowned. i have done this only a few times, but this one is giving me

Broken Details:: init failed

If i Command line in, it will say FAILED under Pool

Any thing i should try or maybe another disk?

Thanks in advanced.

I want to change the IP address of the DNS server that was set up when OntapSelectDeploy was constructed.

I checked the user guide and the command list of the real machine, but I could not find the change command.

 # DNS server information is written in the /etc/network/interface

 # I'll try to modify, but this file is READ ONLY!

    # edit /etc/network/interface

Could you tell me how to solve it?

Hi all,

recently, we have installed Ontap Onselect solution. It was 2 node Onselect HA cluster in one location. We were discussing what should we do, if the Ontap Deploy VM were removed. To enable all functions and features (storage failover capability etc.), are we supposed to deploy a secondary Deploy VM and restore the two node cluster quorum?

Any explanation will be much appreciated!

I just patched an OnTAP Select system for the first time. It went very smoothly, however one command that was listed in the Config Advisor document doesn't exist. One of the preliminary steps says:

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8. Backup ONTAP system information

1.  Create a backup of ONTAP 9.5P6 system information by entering the following dvadmin command:
   
   vm config backup vm_name backup_name
   
   The backup includes the virtual machine configuration and all information on the ONTAP 9.5P6 system
   disks.

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The vm config backup command doesn't exist in OnTAP Select. I found some docs online that seem to indicate it existed in the earlier tool that Select replaced, called OnTAP Edge. Does anyone know what this command is replaced with in OnTAP Select, if anything?

I need to move OnTAP Deploy functionality to a new VM with a new IP address. This instance of Deploy manages a single two node OnTAP Select cluster. I've created the new VM and began the procedure outlined here:

https://kb.netapp.com/Advice_and_Troubleshooting/Data_Storage_Software/ONTAP_Select/How_to_migrate_ONTAP_Select_deploy_tool_to_a_new_VM_machine

I am to the point where I would restore the backup from the original VM to the new VM. However, a key step is missing - when do I power off the old VM to ensure a seamless transition? OR, should I expect a brief interruption of service? How will the cluster know it is being managed from a different Deploy box after the transition? To be more specific, entering storage iscsi-initiator show on the cluster shows the IP of the current Deploy box. How will it "know" to change this? Would love to hear any insight or suggestions!

Background: We recently deployed two Dell servers to serve as ESX hosts for a small office in our company. Each host has 96GB of memory, 16GB of which was reserved for an OnTAP Select node (it's a 2 node HA Pair, small size).

Despite the fact that they have 28 VMs, they use a very minimal amount of memory collectively. The Dell IDRAC memory stats show roughly 10 - 20% of memory utilization consistently. Having said that, the Host summary tab in vCenter constantly throws up "Host Memory Usage" alerts and shows that the hosts are nearly out of memory, even though iDRAC shows very little memory in use. This office wants to add a few more VMs but I was concerned about the memory allocation. After consulting with a VMware expert, we were told my analysis was correct and that since Dell showed little memory actually in use, we should be able to overcommit and add the additional VMs.

Four VMs were added and powered on. We experienced an outage in which the hosts froze up and VMs were inaccessible until we powered the new VMs off. During a second attempt in which they were powered on one at a time, a less drastic but similar problem occurred after powering on the second VM. 

We have cases open with NetApp and VMware but are having trouble making headway so far. Does anyone have insight into this issue? I can't understand why we would need more physical memory, yet the symptoms seem to indicate we do. The only VMs with reservations are the OnTAP Select nodes.

Hi, is anyone using Volume(NVE) or Aggregate(NAE) encryption on their ontap selects?

I can't find any documentation regarding this.

I can see that the commands are available in the CLI.

Any links to documentation or examples very welcome.

thanks

I'm trying to experiment with NetWorker & OnTap backup NDMP interoperability to/from tape, and to this end I downloaded the OnTape Select eval software from here:

https://mysupport.netapp.com/NOW/download/special/ontapselect_eval/

using the "OVF template installation to VMware ESXi without Deploy" option.

As far as I can determine, the deployment in my ESXi 7.0 lab had no issues, but in the dashboard, there's a "Network" box and the following text:

No protocols are licensed. To begin serving data to clients, add the required protocol licenses, and enable the required protocols.
Protocol access licenses have not been added.

If I click "View licenses" I get taken to a page with a long list of features, but only "Base License" and "Ontap Select License" are listed as "Compliant", and the rest (including "SMB/CIFS license") are all listed as "Unlicensed".

I'd assumed from what I'd read on the download page that all necessary 90-day eval licenses would be installed automagically, but apparently not, and I can't find any obvious way of getting hold of them; does anybody have any suggestions?

Have an interesting issue regarding recovery of an faulty ONTAP Select node.

The issue is that we have an Ontap Select node where the root aggregate is corrupt after a reboot, if we execute the wafliron on the aggregate, it fails with “no valid checkpoint” and therefore the select node is not able to boot.

We have tried the “normal ONTAP way” to recover an faulty node, but the data aggregate is still foreign, and we are therefore not able to access the data.

So I want to get in touch with an ONTAP Select expert there can tell me if it is (and how) to recover from this situation. (Other than restore data from backup, which can take several days.)

Hello,

I need to change the default gateway for the management interfaces in an OnTAP Select 2-node cluster and in the OnTAP Deploy VM due to pending network changes. Would like some feedback on the following issues if anyone can assist!

1. Within OnTAP Select I will add the new route with a lower metric, and delete the old route once the network change is made. I will also change the gateway in the subnet, although I'm not sure if I need to do anything special after that to make the management interfaces 'pick up' the change. Does that happen automatically when I add the new route and remove the old one?
2. Within OnTAP Deploy, two issues. One: I think that when I choose "Cluster Refresh" it will pick up the new default gateway; does that sound right? Two: I need to change the default gateway for the Deploy VM itself, but cannot find anywhere in either the GUI or command line interface where to make the change! Any ideas?

Hey,

I’m trying to deploy ontap select 9.8 with evaluation license, 2-node small cluster for testing.

I’m using external storage, vmfs luns from a physical ontap appliance.

the deploy fails with the error “failed to obtain http lease for vmdk upload” and I could not find anything on the internet for that.

anyone familiar with issue?

btw vcenter and esx hosts are 6.5, I don’t remember the exact build number.

thanks in advance,

Hi, 

is it possible to "dump" snapshot from ONTAP Select to Wasabi (or from FAS/AFF)?

Tnx.

Hello together,

I´ve a customer who have a fine running Two Node Ontapt Select 9.5 HA Cluster with Deploy 9.5.2113.

Now we want to upgrade the Cluster to 9.7 but i cant find any upgradepath documention.

Can i upgrade direcly to it or musst i upgrade to 9.6 and then 9.7?

regards Daniel Bung

I have found it in the realase Notes, sorry for this post.

https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMLP2861046/html/frameset.html

Hello,

I'm brand new to NetApp technology, but have been doing research.  My organization does all of it's file shares from a NetApp device using ONTAP for offline files.  Recently we discovered that when users were coming back to the network after saving files while offline, tmp files were being created when they re-joined the network; BEFORE sync center runs a sync.  The files are names with the same name as the original file with the addition of "~RFf1eba.TMP" (just an example, its random).  When a sync is performed, Sync Center sees a confilict as if the user had deleted the original file while offline.  If Sync Center is instructed to keep the file, the changes are updated, but the TMP file remains.  I'm happy to provide any information to assist in the solution of this issue.  I've already done hours of troubleshooting and can provide much more detail if requested.

Thanks in advance!

What is the best way to change the OnTAP Select Deploy configuration to point to a new vCenter? This is a live system so I don't want to break anything. 

Short version of backstory: we had a situation occur where we needed to quickly replace our vCenter server with a new one. Weeks later I realized OnTAP Select Deploy has credentials stored for the old vCenter and the Hypervisor Hosts still show the old vCenter listed as well. I should note that there are no errors anywhere. Everything is working fine. I assume I will run into issues at some point, maybe when/if I next perform an OnTAP upgrade.

Would love to hear any advice or suggestions on how to cleanly update the vCenter settings.

Hi there

Using ONTAP Select Deploy 9.7 we would like to configure the following:

Simpel ONTAP VM with

Management (VLAN10)

SVM with NFS, and CIFS on VLAN 17 and 11

InterCluster via SnapMirror on VLAN 24

As far as I can see you can only define a management and a data network which ends up as e0a, e0b and e0c.

We have managed to "hack" another NIC into the mix by modifying the VM while is was in the BIOS...

But while it is shown in ONTAP as e0d etc.. it is not shown in the ONTAP Deploy GUI, and a refresh operation of the cluster fails...

I am aware that the "right" way to do this, would be to tag the VLANs inside ONTAP, but we tag our VLANs on the vSwitches and would like to continue this as we have many other hosts that uses this...

Any suggestions are welcome 😉

/Heino 

Hello,

Not sure why this information is so difficult to find. A year ago I deployed OnTAP Deploy 9.5.2113 (2.11.3) with our first OnTAP Select instances. The Deploy version came bundled with OnTAP 9.5P6. 

I'm going to patch OnTAP to 9.5P13. I would like to upgrade the Deploy utility to version 9.5.2114 (2.11.4) just to keep it in the 9.5 family, but I can't find any documentation on which OnTAP version this corresponds to. I realize I will be deploying the OnTAP upgrade normally but I want to know which OnTAP version corresponds with this Deploy upgrade to get a rough idea of which one it's designed to correspond to.

The PDF below gives the answer for 2.11.1 and 2.11.2, but not .3 (the one I'm on) or .4 (the one I'm going to). The Deploy documentation page skips 2.11.4 so I can't get to the release notes for that version. Any ideas?

https://library.netapp.com/ecm/ecm_download_file/ECMLP2851321

Hello,

Can some one assist me how Ontap Select help me to counter Multiprotocol issues, Usermapping,HA Solution  and Snapmirror. Need little discription for each

This document shows how to install Select Deploy on an Intel NUC to create a small form-factor Select Deploy appliance.

ONTAP Select Deploy is an essential tool used to create and monitor ONTAP Select clusters. Additionally, it provides a mediator service that enables high availability for two-node Select clusters. Deploy is provided as a virtual machine (VM) that runs on either the VMware ESXi or KVM hypervisors. In certain small-form-factor deployments, the hosts used forSelect do not have enough resources to run both a Select node and a Deploy VM.In those instances, an Intel NUC can be used to run Deploy as a low-cost, small-form-factor standalone appliance.

For more info, please click here

Thanks

I've been playing around with Ontap Select 9.3 for our remote branch solution.

I've been able to get it installed and running and have started  my preformance testing.

Each node has an internal Intel NVME PCI-E Flash card.  I've deployed the 2 node cluster using the "small" config. 

I'm seeing terrible write latency....steady 200ms+ when preforming a storage vmotions.  Volumes are presented as NFS like our physcal netapps are.

I can actually storage vmotion faster between two old test SATA Netapp's than I can to/from the Ontap Select w/ NVME.

Looking at the preformance graphs shows the underlying NVME datastore has sub 1ms latnecy between the Node VM and the datastore.

So it looks like the latency is within the ontap stack.

I certianly woud not expect baremetal speed.  But considering we are using very fast NVME PCI-E cards I'd expect much better preformance than we are seeing.

This same gear was also used for a vSAN test and its preformance was way way higher.

So is there somthing I'm missing?   I do see the virtual e0a adapters are set to 1000GB full but changing it to 10GB Full did not seem to help.   These host are all connected via 40GB Mellanox switches.

I've also tried disabling dedup/compression on the volume but that did not see to any impact either.

When I run statistics command against Disk object, I see the below output for few Disks where node_name is set to Multiple Values, while for Others it displays the correct node name to which the Disk is associated.

Object: disk
Instance: x.x.x
Start-time: 3/19/2020 23:21:57
End-time: 3/19/2020 23:21:58 
Elapsed-time: 1s
Scope: xxxxxxxxxx

    Counter                                                     Value
    -------------------------------- --------------------------------
    cp_reads                                                        3
    disk_busy                                                      0%
    guaranteed_read_blocks                                          0
    guaranteed_write_blocks                                         0
    node_name                                         Multiple_Values

 How can I get to know to which Disk is the node associated?

Hey all,

I'm experimenting wiht OT Select in our lab. Today I upgraded Deploy to 2.10 to be able to use

software RAID with ESX as I have a host (former Cisco Hyperflex node) without a hardware RAID controller.

I could add the host and Deploy can get the inventory just fine.

However, when I try to create a single node cluster on the host after entering the basic cluster details

I get an error message stating

"Invalid Output: Additional properties are not allowed (u'host_uuid' was unexpected) Failed validating 'additionalProperties' in schema [..]"

At the end of the output I can see that it read the hosts UUID, however I can not proceed with creating the cluster

as there is no host in the dropdown menu to select as a destination.

Has anyone else had this problem as well? All help would be welcome.. 🙂

Cheers,

Frank

I tried to upgrade ONTAP Select from 9.6RC1 to 9.7 using System Manager using a local upload.  I ran in to two issues:

1. Issue related to BugID 1223866, staging area in 9.6 is 2GB's, less than required for 9.7.  Tried guidance in BUG ID to increase staging space, but the job kept hanging in state of 'running'

Also increased size of mroot and issued the staging size command as recommended in the bug notes.

Logged in via diag account, found that /mroot/etc/upload was a link to "/mroot/etc/www/webjail/php/tmp/upload/complete";  however the link pointed to a non-existent directory at the upload/complete levels.  Created upload and upload/complete directories.

2. Once the above was fixed, the upload complained that it could only upload a .tgz file.  The upgrade file, as downloaded from the NetApp support site, was all capitalized, in other words XXXX.TGZ.  Renamed source file to all lower case letters.

The upload worked like a charm.  Now to install it.

Does anybody know if such numbers are available? I have a customer asking. I would believe that this would depend on the underlying hypervisor and hardware. Anyone agree?

Regards

I'm trying to install ONTAP Select 9.6 one-node cluster on vCenter/ESXi servers.

After installing the OVF Deploy image, I'm going thru the configuration to install ONTAP Select.

The main thing is that I don't want to harm my existing ESXi/datastore servers by this installation.

So, do I need a brand new ESX server or can I use an existing ESX server with some existing datastore in use on which I a few  VMs reside when it's asking on the section where it shows Hardware RAID setup?

I'm scared if it's going to wipe out my existing VMs or datastore contents in use.

Thanks for your answer in advance!

With ONTAP Select Deploy 2.10.1(evaluation license) , I got following errors when creating a 2node-Cluster with following condition.

<Host Information>

Hypervisor: ESXi 6.5 U2 (evaluation License)　×2

VMs on host#1: VCSA6.5, ONTAP select Deploy, (!!ontap select)

VMs on hsot#2: (!!ontap select)

!! 2node-cluster will be created here

<Error messages>

-NodeCreateFailed

 Node"[ClusterName]" create failed. Reason: Faild to write file([DatastorePass]): 401  Unauthorized. Manual deletion of this  node from its host may be required.

-Cluster Deploy Faild

Node StartErr: Node "[ClusterName]" failed to start : (Invalid/missing Cdrom device)

How to solve this issues ?

I would appreciate it very much if you could advise me anything.

Hi,

1. Where can i find Data Ontap Version 7.xx  Simulator Appliance ??

2. Has NetApp stopped supporting Below version of Ontap 8.x ??

3. Any Third Party Link for Smulator ??

Thanks and Regards,

Divya Jyoti Das