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Fibre Channel Direct Attach With NetApp Storage: Simpler SAN For The Right Environments
Fibre Channel Direct Attach With NetApp Storage: Simpler SAN For The Right Environments SAN complexity is often treated as a fixed cost of block storage. Fibre Channel Direct Attach, available with NetApp’s ONTAP 9.19.1, gives customers a simpler option when they do not need the scale and policy model of a full FC fabric.…
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NVMe Host QoS
Starting ONTAP 9.14.1 Release, ONTAP Supports NVMe Host QoS. Host QoS is part of an end-to-end QoS solution that allows setting up the QoS at the NVMe Subsystem Level. There are 2 types of QoS that can be set, * higher * regular This QoS is set at the Host level of the system there by giving a preferential treatment to the…
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FAS2554 Slow iSCSI performance
Hi team, I have ESXi 6.7u3 host with dedicated 4 x 10GbE NICs for Netapp traffic, using software iSCSI adapter, connected to 4 x 10GbE FAS2554 2 nodes cluster. Netapp Release 9.8P20, RAID-DP with 11 x SAS HDD. Cluster has iSCSI and NFS VMs with 1 volume and a LUN for iSCSI and 1 volume for NFS. I have a Windows 10 VM with…
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How does NVMe/FC namespace support two different OS platform to perform LANfree backup
Here is one issue from my customer who using the NVMe/ FC with LANfree backup requirement: Environment info: Storage system : NetApp A250 ONTAP version: 9.10.1 Storage Protocol： NVMe over FC Five VMware ESxi host: vSphere 7.0 One Redhat Linux version 8.2 (4.18.0-193.el8.x86_64 ) with Veritas NBU Backup Server with Emulex…
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Discovery of shares with everyone permissions
Hi folks, We have an extensive number of shares (over 1000 amongst many 1000s of shares) which have everyone file permissions, does anyone have any advice on how to identify these shares and which users are accessing the shares? Will any of the available NetApp tools provide this information?
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iSCSI Network Design - Windows Physical Server
FAS8040 CDOT 8.2.2, 10 GBe, Windows Server 2012 R2. We are currently working on an Exchange server deployment with a "consultant". To put it bluntly, these guys can't answer a simple question about a key piece of the puzzle, the fabric from the hosts to the storage. Building an iSCSI design using a single subnet and…
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Same LUN size but different sectors in Solaris 11
Hi guys We're facing an issue when mapping new LUNs to Solaris 11: I created new LUNs of 300GB but according to the Solaris administrator the new LUNs are not exactly the same as last LUNs mapped root@srvsparcmml1:~# prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t60A9800038303952543F48637A494649d0s2 *…
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Unable to create forlder from windows explorer to SAN / NAS netapp.
We have a FAS3220 netapp Baie. I created a Volume : a_datauser1 a_datauser1 online raid_dp, flex nosnap=on, no_atime_update=on, create_ucode=on, 64-bit convert_ucode=on, snaplock_enterprise, no_i2p=on, fractional_reserve=0 On it i created qtree : a_datauser1 data1 ntfs enabled normal I share this QTREE : DATAUSER1…
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ontapdsm mpio problem
Hi! We have installed Data ONTAP® DSM 3.5 for Windows® MPIO on DPM Windows 2008 R2 server. After reboot there were no more FCP PARTNER MISCONFIGURED errors on the netapp storage. In Windows Logs/ system we get next errors: Level: WARNING Source: ONTAPDSM Event ID:61123 General description: IO error. SRB status: Timeout…