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Re: vMotion issue when VM is on a VVOL datastore

sraudonis — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 14:39:44 GMT

Currently i have uninstalled all this and using only the NFS VAAI plugin...

This is easy to configure, is working every time, and the best is the Snapshot offload. I'm happy with that... 🙂

No need for the VSC when using NFS.

Re: vMotion issue when VM is on a VVOL datastore

Blissitt — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 14:11:29 GMT

For anyone who wants to upgrade to "VSC" 9.8, the product is now called "ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere." Go to the NetApp Downloads section and you'll find it under the letter "O."

Version 9.7.1P1 may have a bug causing data loss and is not listed on NetApp's IMT as supported past VMware 7.0U1, so if you're running 9.7.1P1 I'd suggest you upgrade soon.

Re: Virtual Storage Console for VMware vSphere 7

Blissitt — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 14:08:52 GMT

For anyone who wants to upgrade to "VSC" 9.8, the product is now called "ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere." Go to the NetApp Downloads section and you'll find it under the letter "O."

Version 9.7.1P1 may have a bug causing data loss and is not listed on NetApp's IMT as supported past VMware 7.0U1, so I'd suggest you upgrade very soon.

Re: VMDKs disappeared from vVol VMs during backups

Blissitt — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 19:23:10 GMT

Thanks, Bingen. I just got off the phone with Adam at NetApp support. He and I verified that we can't delete the vVol with the usual commands provided by the VSC plugin and that we'll have to use some combination of ONTAP System Manager, vCenter, and the Web based CLI interface [sic.] at https://ww.xx.yy.zz:9083/ . He's going to test this out and send me a list of tasks to do. I supplied all requested logs with my original ticket (2008782637) in case anyone at NetApp wants to look at them. My main focus now is just removing the broken vVol.

Most interesting is that there is a new 9.8 version of the VSC (with a totally different name) that's been out since *February*. I didn't know about it since the product's name had been changed and there was no mention of this in the old download location. For anyone who wants to upgrade, the product is now called "ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere," so go to NetApp Downloads section and you'll find it under the letter "O."

Given that I was running the latest/last version of the "old" software, 9.7.1P1, and would have never known there was anything newer, I would recommend that NetApp add some kind of link to the new version/newly-named software from the old location. (Especially since this last version of the old software was what I was running when my vVol broke and others may think 9.7.1P1 is the latest and greatest...)

Re: VMDKs disappeared from vVol VMs during backups

bingen — Thu, 27 May 2021 13:47:02 GMT

That's definitely a strange occurrence that I've never seen before.

From the VASA Provider Web UI you can do things like find missing vVols and delete them, so the support team should be able to help you with that.

I'd recommend collecting a support bundle from the VSC settings menu in vCenter, or even from the administrative web page, before any logs roll off so you can get an RCA on what happened.

Within the VASA Provider, the CXF log captures every VASA API call that is sent from vCenter, so RCA should be possible if you can nail down exactly what time we are looking for.

Re: Latest PowerShell toolkit will not import the module

OhGross — Wed, 26 May 2021 16:54:26 GMT

NetApp just published a new PS Tool Kit (9.9.1) that per the install guide will work with PS 7.0.3 and above.

Haven't tested yet but will update this if i see any issues... if no update, the new version is working.

Big thanks to Joe T. (our TAM) for sending me the info.

VMDKs disappeared from vVol VMs during backups

Blissitt — Wed, 26 May 2021 15:27:55 GMT

We had an unusual event last week that I wanted to share. I had seven VMs on a NetApp NFS-based vVol. Our Cohesity backups kicked off at 3:01pm and by 3:04pm, the VMDK files for six of those VMs went missing (the .vmdk descriptor files were still there, but the .vmdk file containing the actual data were somehow inaccessible). All versions of software were supported per NetApp's IMT: VMware versions were 7.0U1, VSC was 9.7.1P1, ONTAP was 9.7P6, VAAI plugin was 2.0. The one remaining VM on the same vVol was undamaged, and two other VMs on a separate vVol also remained intact. We've never had trouble with Cohesity backing up hundreds of other VMs on "regular NFS" datastores and this was the first time we'd seen trouble on a vVol datastore.

We were able to restore the VMs from backups taken the previous day and with little/no data loss. I currently have ticket 2008782637 in with NetApp on how to delete the suspect vVol because vCenter won't allow it. (vCenter thinks that VMs still reside on the vVol and it's probably right - even though the old, broken VMs have been deleted, their VMDKs likely exist *somewhere* in the vVol.) The only recent change I made was that I moved one VM to the impacted vVol and two VMs off of it in the hours before the backup. (vVols had been working so well for us that I wanted to put another production VM on vVols and remove two non-production ones.)

I'll continue to use vVols, but only for test VMs for the near future.

Re: Latest PowerShell toolkit will not import the module

OhGross — Wed, 26 May 2021 14:57:03 GMT

This is not a solution to the issue. The issue still remains that the PS module will not load with PS 7.0.3 or higher.

Re: Powershell Move-Item (or cmd.exe / move) into a qtree gives access denied

dietermann — Sat, 22 May 2021 08:03:22 GMT

Hello Gidi, hello Didier,

I found your discussion when googling for "move-item access denied".

I can confirm that this is a ONTAP related behavior.

I wanted to move a folder F from Qtree A to Qtree B within the same Volume V. The Windows share is mapped to the Volume \\SVM\V .

"move-item \\SVM\V\A\F \\SVM\V\B\F" gives access denied.

"move-item \\SVM\V\A\F \\SVM\V\A\F2" works as expected (including moved ACLs).

ONTAP Versions is 9.7P6, Windows Client is a Windows Server 2019 (Version 5.1.17763.1852)

Sectrace says in both cases "Access is allowed because inherited ACE grants requested access ..."
Disabling ODX did not help.
I didnot capture a PKTT -- who would analyze it? Opening a support case will not help me with my task at hand and would cost me me too much time.
So I will keep the new folders in the old qtree like
"move-item \\SVM\V\A\F to \\SVM\V\A\B\F" with B now a folder under Qtree A.

Thanks for sharing your experience and ideas,

Matthias

Re: NetApp PowerShell Toolkit 9.8 released!

BenFB — Wed, 19 May 2021 16:57:20 GMT

As of now it only works in PowerShell 5.x. A lot of us have requested PowerShell Core (7) support but NetApp has been silent on it.

Re: NetApp PowerShell Toolkit 9.8 released!

BobMoore — Wed, 19 May 2021 16:48:17 GMT

I'm struggling with getting this to work with Powershell Core 7 .. Any links to some instructions?

TIA!

Re: NetApp PowerShell Toolkit 9.8 released!

Raoul_Schaffner — Wed, 19 May 2021 15:58:00 GMT

Thank you for this release.

Please fix the bug regarding PowerShell Core 7 (v. 7.1.3 currently)

Import-Module DataONTAP

Import-Module: Could not load type 'System.Management.Automation.PSSnapIn' from assembly 'System.Management.Automation, Version=7.1.3.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35'

Re: NetApp PowerShell Toolkit 9.8 released!

BobMoore — Tue, 18 May 2021 14:32:26 GMT

Thanks for posting this! All that DEBUG out put was driving me nuts! Hahahaha!

Re: about multiattach

ttran — Tue, 11 May 2021 07:08:17 GMT

Hello Daniel201,

Here is the documentation for NetApp's Trident for Kubernetes detailing multi-attach support, which I also see the first integration with the ONTAP driver is in ONTAP 9.9.1:

Trident for Kubernetes - Multi-Attach

There are no details to enable "multi-attach".

Regards,

Team NetApp

about multiattach

daniel201 — Sun, 09 May 2021 07:57:26 GMT

Dear sir，

As I know，openstack Queens has the multiattach feature released which allows multiple hosts to attach to a volume.

So can you tell me how to set a FAS storage to support this feature.

Thank you very much!

Daniel

Re: How to identify NetApp LUN ID in Vmware ?

macartm — Fri, 07 May 2021 10:32:52 GMT

That Powershell is neat but it has one problem.

Netapp LUN serials are case-sensitive, but the comparison used is case-insensitive. I wondered why I had more LUNs than expected ...

SO that should be "$ntapLun = $naluns | ?{ $_.SerialNumber -ceq $ntapSerial }"

Re: NetApp PowerShell Toolkit 9.8 released!

nigelg1965 — Wed, 05 May 2021 09:56:27 GMT

For those having issues, this is how I fixed it.

Switch to x86 version (32 bit).

In Visual Studio Code: Open the Command Palette on Windows with Ctrl + Shift + P.
Search for Session.
Click on PowerShell: Show Session Menu.
Choose the version Windows PowerShell(X86).

Re: how/where does Add-NcCredentials cache credentials

OzStu — Mon, 03 May 2021 03:16:16 GMT

This is the second bit I needed!

We get round-robin'd to one of several jump hosts, and when I get dumped on a new host, I lose my credentials!

Now I have taken a copy of StorageSystems.xml and copied it to C:\ProgramData\OnCommand\Common, and viola, I have my credentials on the new box!

Re: PSTK Disable the INFO and DEBUG streams

ttran — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 05:18:19 GMT

Hi Francis_Favorini,

I installed PSTK 9.8 and confirmed the default loglevel is not enabled/off.

Here is my reproduction in the lab:

PS C:\Users\administrator> import-module dataontap PS C:\Users\administrator> get-module ModuleType Version Name ExportedCommands ---------- ------- ---- ---------------- Manifest 9.8.0 DataONTAP {Add-NaAggr, Add-NaCifsShare, Add-NaCredential, Add-NaFpol... PS C:\Users\administrator> get-natoolkitconfiguration Log --- {DataONTAP.PowerShell: OFF, DataONTAP.C.PowerShell: OFF, DataONTAP.HostUtilities: OFF, NetApp.Ontapi: OFF}

Re: NetApp PowerShell Toolkit 9.8 released!

Francis_Favorini — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 21:43:34 GMT

Found the answer here. For some reason, Debug logging seems to be enabled by default in Toolkit 9.8. This seems like a bug. I turned it off with a Set-NaToolkitConfiguration -LogLevel Error command.

Re: PSTK Disable the INFO and DEBUG streams

Francis_Favorini — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 21:40:02 GMT

What is the default level that is supposed to be set out of the box? Error? It seems to have changed to Debug for version 9.8.0 of the Toolkit. That seems like a mistake.

Re: NetApp PowerShell Toolkit 9.8 released!

Francis_Favorini — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 21:33:42 GMT

How do I turn off the extremely verbose XML logging to the PowerShell console window that seems to be enabled for every command now? Super annoying!

Re: Get-NcVolumeEncryption

ttran — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 10:04:46 GMT

Hello Twodotohh,

I confirmed the issue on PSTK 9.8 and have reported it to our internal team. Thanks for informing us and we apologize for the inconvenience.

Regards,

Team NetApp

Re: Snapmirror Resync using PSTK

ttran — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 09:03:37 GMT

Hi Bobalon,

Did you verify that the snapshot on the original source still exists as this is required for the resync to succeed?

Here is a KB that details how to test a SnapMirror DR relationship and resync back to the original source that you can try manually to see if you are able to get it to work without using PSTK:

Guidelines for SnapMirror Disaster Recovery (DR) testing and reverse SnapMirror in ONTAP

Regards,

Team NetApp

SnapLock set unspecified retention

mscarpi — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 05:32:44 GMT

With ONTAP 9.8 we have introduced the "unspecified" retention time for SnapLock. The API in ONTAP is already there, any plans to have that implemented in our Powershell toolkit like we have for the infinite retention time?

Something like this:

Set-NcSnaplockRetentionTime -VserverContext VSERVERNAME "/vol/PATH" -SetUnspecifiedRetention true

thanks,

Marco

Re: Migration from Windows share to NetApp CIFS Share

jcolonfzenpr — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 22:08:09 GMT

you can also use netapp xcp.

https://xcp.netapp.com/

NetApp XCP is a client-based software for any-to-NetApp and NetApp-to-NetApp data migrations and file analytics. XCP is designed to scale and achieve greater performance by utilizing all the available system resources to manage high-volume datasets and high-performance migrations. XCP helps you get complete visibility into the file system with the option to generate customer reports. Thanks to the matching and formatting capabilities, you can customize the reports to match any reporting needs.

Use XCP for NFS or SMB systems as one of the following solutions:

Migration solution
File Analytics solution

Hope this answers your question.

Migration from Windows share to NetApp CIFS Share

davidrod10 — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 18:55:41 GMT

I'm looking for a way to migrate my Windows share to a NetApp CIFS share and bring over all the NTFS permissions. I've done some looking around and it seems that RoboCopy is the go to for most but don't know if there is a better utility out there somewhere. Maybe in the PowerShell toolkit.

Re: Rest API Call missing for Assign QoS Policy to Virtual Machine

bingen — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 14:35:47 GMT

Hello, BN.

Thank you for the post. To answer your question in short, yes, you should be able to do it. I think the Swagger UI is still being updated.

Email me, chance.bingen@netapp.com and I'll get you the details until I can get time to write a KB article.

Re: PSTK Disable the INFO and DEBUG streams

ttran — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 03:20:36 GMT

Hi MichaelMcCormick,

You can see if Debug level is enabled using the following commandlet: Get-NaToolkitConfiguration. What version of the PSTK are you using?

Regards,

Team NetApp

Rest API Call missing for Assign QoS Policy to Virtual Machine

ADVUNIBN1 — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 16:27:07 GMT

Hi all,

I miss a API call to assign a QoS Policy to an individual VM.

https://docs.netapp.com/vapp-98/topic/com.netapp.doc.vsc-iag/GUID-A1C6F14F-C539-42A9-B6B8-379608C1709F.html

Will this come in future or didn't I find it?

Regards

Re: Virtual Storage Console for VMware vSphere 7

Blissitt — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 13:01:41 GMT

Update: One of my hosts spontaneously upgraded to 7.0U2 after I upgraded it to 7.0U1. I was never able to get VAAI 2.0 to install using VUM/vLCM on that host while it was at 7.0U2, although I will admit the server was considered suspect at that point. I wiped and reinstalled 7.0U1 and was then able to install VAAI 2.0 using vLCM as I've done on my other hosts.

Re: Get-NcVolumeEncryption

twodotohh — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 15:59:50 GMT

I have tried on the exact version you mentioned and yes other cmdlets in that family do seem to work OK. I suspect this needs fixing!

Re: Get-NcVolumeEncryption

Jim_Robertson — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 13:13:49 GMT

What version of OnTap are you running? I think it's more of an issue of what APIs are available in the OnTap version that you are connecting to, but I'm having the same issue.

I'm having the issue with Get-NcVolumeEncryption and Invoke-NcVolumeEncryptionRekey. I've tried running them PSTK 9.8 against an OnTap 9.7P12 cluster and from PSTK 9.6 against an OnTap 9.5P3 cluster. Both cases report that they are "Unable to find API".

Interestingly enough, Get-NcVolumeEncryptionRekey (to check the status of rekey operations) does work in both of the above cases.

Re: powershell tolls 9.8 , invoke-ncssh is not working with ontap 9.3 or above

Yair — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 14:01:44 GMT

Hey ,

This is weird , I tried the same thing on my external network with ontapp 9.3 and it is working fine.

I guess it is something internal .

Thank you I will work on it

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Re: VSC version check

godaba — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 11:56:33 GMT

Thank you for the information find the version values.

Version string "7.0.0-DEVBUILD_171009_2221"

Re: VSC version check

NetApp_SR — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 10:22:01 GMT

Hello,

You can see the version of the plug-in from the MOB. The mob is https://"vcenter IP or host"/mob. Enter administrator credentials. Click on "content" in the value column of properties. Click on ExtensionManager. Click on "more" in the properties value column. Look for com.netapp. values. You can click on them to see the content. The bottom shows version and the description hyper link will have the product description. Please let us know if this solves your issue. Thank you.

VSC version check

godaba — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 08:19:23 GMT

Hi Team,

After adobe EOL am unable to verify the VSC plugin in my vcenter and unable check VSC version from the web console (https://<vcenter>/ui).

we want to verify the VSC current version in our vcenter could you please suggest me on the possible ways to check or help me with the commands to verify from vcenter.

Re: powershell tolls 9.8 , invoke-ncssh is not working with ontap 9.3 or above

parisi — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 13:53:50 GMT

Works for me on ONTAP 9.8:

PS C:\> Invoke-NcSsh -Name x.x.x.x -Command version
Keyboard-interactive authentication prompts from server:
End of keyboard-interactive prompts from server

NcController : x.x.x.x
Value :

Last login time: 4/5/2021 09:51:56

NetApp Release 9.8: Wed Dec 09 01:07:39 UTC 2020

Maybe try removing/unistalling the module and reinstalling?

Alternately, you could look into posh-ssh:

https://www.powershellmagazine.com/2014/07/03/posh-ssh-open-source-ssh-powershell-module/

powershell tolls 9.8 , invoke-ncssh is not working with ontap 9.3 or above

Yair — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 07:53:04 GMT

Hello ,

The error is "invoke-ncssh : the system cannot find file specified”

powershell tolls 9.8 , invoke-ncssh is not working with ontap 9.3 or above

need your help please

Get-NcVolumeEncryption

twodotohh — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 12:54:36 GMT

Using PSTK 9.8 (and this was the same in 9.6) running Get-NcVolumeEncryption gives an error back to say it is unable to find the API, does anyone else have this issue? Trying to find a way of getting the encryption type of a volume, so volume or aggregate. I can get whether or not a volume is encrypted but I am wanting to know the type.

Other cmdlets work fine, just this one, I had read on a previous community post this API might have been revoked a while back but this doesn't make sure to have not been reintroduced.

Thanks

Re: Snap Center Plugin for vmware vsphere - auto tagging

AutoTeam — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 09:51:01 GMT

I wanted to use the tagging feature in order to assign a specific storage policy to those datastores, in order to prohibit regular users to write a new files to the restored datastore.

It turns out that when someone place a new vmdk file in Datastore created by the snap center, the snap center plugin see's it as attached disk - which will cause a problems when trying to remove the snap center datastore in the future.

Do you have another suggest how do I prevent such situations?

Thanks

Tankwell

Re: Virtual Storage Console for VMware vSphere 7

Blissitt — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 18:40:46 GMT

For those interested, VAAI 2.0 was released on March 21, 2021, and it supports 7.0U1 and above. The previous version supported up through 7.0 (RTM).

Re: Snapmirror Resync using PSTK

Fabian1993 — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 16:02:49 GMT

XDP replace DP

Re: Latest PowerShell toolkit will not import the module

Vandi — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 20:36:37 GMT

It’s not just NetApp toolkit, but looks like Snapcenter/SnapDrive powershell modules have similar results.

Re: Snap Center Plugin for vmware vsphere - auto tagging

hmoubara — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 03:25:15 GMT

Hello,

Based on your detail provided, you wanting the datastore created during a clone or restore to a have a specific tag like the option you have within Vsphere (Tags &Custom Attributes). Currently there is no such option within Snapcenter.

You should be able to add tag once the datastore is available from the vsphere itself.

You can also reach out to your account team to assist in getting your request to Engineering if possible.

Thanks

PSTK Disable the INFO and DEBUG streams

MichaelMcCormick — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 14:22:07 GMT

Does anyone else have the same issue with the PSTK module loaded from the MS PSGallery where they get screen after screen of Green background text after each command? Looked into it and it looks like data coming from the Write-Information and Write-Debug console streams. I've checked system variables and reloaded the module twice with the same behavior. It ignores the Preference variables set in the PShost.

Snap Center Plugin for vmware vsphere - auto tagging

AutoTeam — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 09:54:38 GMT

Hey all,

I don't know if here is the right place to ask, please be patient 🤗

We have On-prem environment based on VMWare vsphere (a few ESXi hosts and VMware VCenter). We also have Snap Center plugin for vmware VCetner installed on the VCenter itself, and a dedicated server for backups (snap center server on windows os, snap center version 4.0)

Since the plugin for VCenter is installed, we can to do a simple recovery actions from snapshots (restore a single vmdk file, de-attach and attach disks, restore entire vm, etc...). Those actions automatically creats a datastore (usually named snap-<some uid>) managed by the snap center vmware 'run as account'. I will call these 'snap center datastores'

However, a regular user still can create Virtual disks on these datastores - makig it difficult to manage.

We thought create a storage policy that prevent a regular VM disks reside on Datastore generated by the snap center. For this to come out, we need to find a way to attach vmware tag to each datastore created by the snapcenter.

Is it possible to define some vmware storage tag added automatically to those datastores when they are created?

This is important for us since we have some "leftovers" - snap center datastores being kept for a long time for some research reasons.

Hope this message is clear enough 😊

Tankwell

Re: Latest PowerShell toolkit will not import the module

OhGross — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 13:13:27 GMT

- Thanks for the update. I'm about to cutover to a new laptop and was thinking about this yesterday... I must have been thinking loud enough for others to hear.

Cheers,

Re: PTK snapmirror reverse resync (C.)

TonyChaffe — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 10:42:57 GMT

For sure, or a new cmdlet in the ptk that takes as parameters source and destination controllers, addressing the accepted answer. How do I unaccept an answer 🙂

Re: PTK snapmirror reverse resync (C.)

bobalon — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 09:28:10 GMT

Tony FWIW

I used the resync CmdLet against an Ontap 9.5simulator and it seemd to reverse the mirror as expected, but when trying against a controller on 9.1 - it fails

Out of interest what version are you using?

Also agree - if Netapp can enumerate the steps taken by the oncommand option we could then replicate in Powershell

Thank you

Re: Latest PowerShell toolkit will not import the module

Francis_Favorini — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 04:07:40 GMT

Still a problem with PowerShell 7.1.3 and DataONTAP module 9.8.0.

Import-Module: Could not load type 'System.Management.Automation.PSSnapIn' from assembly 'System.Management.Automation, Version=7.1.3.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35'.

Re: PTK snapmirror reverse resync (C.)

TonyChaffe — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 17:36:17 GMT

I suppose what would be really helpful to understand from netapp, in collaboration with the ptk team, what operations does the Reverse Resync option perform on a snapmirror relationship, how can that be transposed into powershell cmdlet/s made available in the ptk?

Re: PTK snapmirror reverse resync (C.)

TonyChaffe — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 17:31:06 GMT

Hi Bobalon,

Sadly no, due to time-pressures, I was just working out the theory and haven't had the time to revisit, sorry to disappoint. I didn't get that far, but, it's good that you've pointed that out as it's not possible, anyone correct me if I'm wrong, to convert a volume with data into a DP volume, unfortunately.

I would say though, it would definitely be worth gauging the effort in migrating to SVM DR/mirrors as opposed to volume level DR/mirrors, making the need for this kind of activity redundant.

It drastically cuts down on the need to manage volume level snapmirrors. If an SVM is in a snapmirror relationship, any new volumes created on the source svm are automatically mirrored on the svm dr/mirror destination, in addition, depending on set-up/configuration, carefully read the documentation and you'll understand what I mean, all shares, junctions etc are carried over to the destination, so, breaking the SVM mirror relationship and activating the DR SVM means users would likely see very little to no downtime.

Snapmirror Resync using PSTK

bobalon — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 17:30:26 GMT

Hi there

I have a PS script to reverse resync a SnapMirror relationship which has been tested against the ontap9.5 simulator.

when running on the simulator the existing relationship remains in place (but has been previously broken) and the resync operation creates a new reverse relationship for the volumes. i.e. originally A -> B becomes B->A

when integrating into the QA test environment the controllers are running OnTap 9.1 and the resync call fails with no common snapshot in place, Note Snapmirror relationship is created but the state is Broken-off, if I try to initialize i get an error because the volume at A is RW and not DP

Were any changes made between 9.1 and 9.5 that explain this difference or am I just seeing a difference between the simulator and real world?

Thank you

Re: PTK snapmirror reverse resync (C.)

bobalon — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 17:09:27 GMT

Hi there

did you manage to solve this. I have the same issue

at present I try to create a reverse Snapmirror but it fails as both the old source and the new source are RW vols and the destination vol (old source) needs to the a DP type.

I cannot see a way to change a volume from RW to DP so appear stuck

any suggestions?

Thank you

Re: Lookig to get the NTFS permissions on CIFS share using the powershell toolkit

tahmad — Tue, 16 Mar 2021 08:29:31 GMT

Was the issue resolved?

Re: Toolkit not running after upgrade to 9.7 - any assistance

parisi — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 19:25:00 GMT

NetApp Docs version 3.7.0

PowerShell toolkit 9.8.0

PS C:\Users\Administrator> Get-NtapDocsVersion
_ __ __ ___ ____
/ | / /__ / /_/ | ____ ____ / __ \____ __________
/ |/ / _ \/ __/ /| | / __ \/ __ \/ / / / __ \/ ___/ ___/
/ /| / __/ /_/ ___ |/ /_/ / /_/ / /_/ / /_/ / /__(__ )
/_/ |_/\___/\__/_/ |_/ .___/ .___/_____/\____/\___/____/
/_/ /_/
NetAppDocs v3.7.0

PS C:\Users\Administrator> get-natoolkitversion

Major Minor Build Revision
----- ----- ----- --------
9 8 0 0

Re: Toolkit not running after upgrade to 9.7 - any assistance

netapp711 — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 17:55:38 GMT

Can you tell me what version of the Toolkit you are using?

still not having any luck running. thanks

Re: Unable to extend volume size using powershell

parisi — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 15:26:43 GMT

The error message spells out the problem here.

"This cmdlet must be directed to a data vserver. You are currently connected to the cluster admin vserver. "

You'd need to run this against a management LIF in the SVM with a SVM admin.

https://docs.netapp.com/ontap-9/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.netapp.doc.onc-sm-help-900%2FGUID-0106C05F-2E55-4157-8F34-DF0F42560CE4.html

Re: Toolkit not running after upgrade to 9.7 - any assistance

parisi — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 19:54:32 GMT

I don't think there's a newer file.

The error suggests there's something wrong with the module itself as opposed to being related to the ONTAP upgrade.

Maybe try to uninstall/reinstall the module?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/powershellget/uninstall-module?view=powershell-7.1

Re: Toolkit not running after upgrade to 9.7 - any assistance

netapp711 — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 19:45:20 GMT

I get this error, not sure what I am doing wrong. I will check out the documentation and see what I am missing.

This command worked prior to my upgrade.

I ran this Import prior to running :

Import-Module 'C:\Program Files (x86)\NetApp\NetAppDocs PowerShell Module\NetAppDocs\NetAppDocs.psd1'

Is this import correct? or is there a newer file to import?

Re: Toolkit not running after upgrade to 9.7 - any assistance

parisi — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 15:04:37 GMT

This is the latest NetAppDocs:

https://mysupport.netapp.com/site/tools/tool-eula/netappdocs/download

That exact command worked for me on my ONTAP 9.8 system:

PS C:\Users\Administrator> Get-NtapClusterData -Name x.x.x.x -Credential admin| Format-NtapClusterData | Out-NtapDocument -WordFile 'C:\ABC_ECF.Docx' -ExcelFile 'C:\ABC_ECF.xlsx'
WARNING: The following document parameters were not specified: CustomerName, CustomerLocation, ProjectName, AuthorName. See the relevant FAQ entry in the help pages for more information on how to manually update the cover pages of the output document(s).

Toolkit not running after upgrade to 9.7 - any assistance

netapp711 — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 21:56:47 GMT

I used to run this command line to output my NetApp info on NetApp 9.3, I recently upgraded to 9.7 version and now this does not work.

I was given this by a support person years ago, not sure how I can get this information again. Any help would be appreciated.

I would run this import first:

Import-Module 'C:\Program Files (x86)\NetApp\NetAppDocs PowerShell Module\NetAppDocs\NetAppDocs.psd1'

Get-NtapClusterData -Name 'x.x.x.x' -Credential admin| Format-NtapClusterData | Out-NtapDocument -WordFile 'C:\Output\ABC_ECF.Docx' -ExcelFile 'C:\Output\ABC_ECF.xlsx'PS

Looking to see if there is a update to this that I could download.

Thanks

Re: NetApp VSC/ Snapcenter and VMware Site Recovery Manager

Netapp_power — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 18:38:58 GMT

Hello,

Can you share what was the solution to the setup please?

Thanks

Re: PSTK: Combine the output of Get-NcLunMap and Get-NcIgroup - custom object?

tyrone_owen_1 — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 08:35:33 GMT

Thank again for your help

I thought that, but the output looks like this instead of consolidated under one heading:

vServer Lun ID IGROUP Name IGROUP TYPE IGROUP TYPE OS IGROUP ALUA ENABLE Lun Path ------- ------ ----------- ----------- -------------- ------------------ -------- SAN 2 comp-01a mixed vmware True /vol/SERVER_DATASTORE_VVOL_1/vvolPE-1614476525287 vServer Lun ID IGROUP Name IGROUP TYPE IGROUP TYPE OS IGROUP ALUA ENABLE Lun Path ------- ------ ----------- ----------- -------------- ------------------ -------- SAN 0 comp-01a mixed vmware True /vol/SERVER_DATASTORE/SERVER_DATASTORE vServer Lun ID IGROUP Name IGROUP TYPE IGROUP TYPE OS IGROUP ALUA ENABLE Lun Path ------- ------ ----------- ----------- -------------- ------------------ -------- SAN 0 comp-01a mixed vmware True /vol/SERVER_DATASTORE/SERVER_DATASTORE2

Re: PSTK: Combine the output of Get-NcLunMap and Get-NcIgroup - custom object?

jcolonfzenpr — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 18:18:19 GMT

only need to change one line of the code. put a # in front of:

#Write-Output $initiatoronline

Re: PSTK: Combine the output of Get-NcLunMap and Get-NcIgroup - custom object?

tyrone_owen_1 — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 11:33:02 GMT

That's brilliant - thank you

I've played around with the script to try and get a single table as opposed to individual tables per LUN path, something like this:

vServer Lun ID IGROUP Name IGROUP TYPE IGROUP TYPE OS IGROUP ALUA ENABLE Lun Path ------- ------ ----------- ----------- -------------- ------------------ -------- SAN 2 comp-01a mixed vmware True /vol/SERVER_DATASTORE_VVOL_1/vvolPE-1614476525287 SAN 0 comp-01a mixed vmware True /vol/SERVER_DATASTORE/SERVER_DATASTORE SAN 0 comp-01a mixed vmware True /vol/SERVER_DATASTORE/SERVER_DATASTORE2

Can the script be tweaked to achieve this?

Thanks again

Re: PSTK: Combine the output of Get-NcLunMap and Get-NcIgroup - custom object?

jcolonfzenpr — Sat, 06 Mar 2021 05:54:28 GMT

Hi:

Check the attached document. It includes example code.

Hope this help!

OntapLuninfo.ps1 vServer Lun ID IGROUP Name IGROUP TYPE IGROUP TYPE OS IGROUP ALUA ENABLE Lun Path ------- ------ ----------- ----------- -------------- ------------------ -------- SAN 0 comp-01a mixed vmware True /vol/SERVER_DATASTORE/SERVER_DATASTORE Initiator Online --------- ------ iqn.1998-01.com.vmware:comp-01a-62411b9cdd7438fb True iqn.1998-01.com.vmware:comp-02a-92411b9cdd7438fb False iqn.1998-01.com.vmware:comp-03a-42411b9cdd7438fb False iqn.1998-01.com.vmware:comp-04a-52411b9cdd7438fb False vServer Lun ID IGROUP Name IGROUP TYPE IGROUP TYPE OS IGROUP ALUA ENABLE Lun Path ------- ------ ----------- ----------- -------------- ------------------ -------- SAN 2 comp-01a mixed vmware True /vol/SERVER_DATASTORE_VVOL_1/vvolPE-1614476525287 Initiator Online --------- ------ iqn.1998-01.com.vmware:comp-01a-62411b9cdd7438fb True iqn.1998-01.com.vmware:comp-02a-92411b9cdd7438fb False iqn.1998-01.com.vmware:comp-03a-42411b9cdd7438fb False iqn.1998-01.com.vmware:comp-04a-52411b9cdd7438fb False

Re: Virtual Storage Console Limited Use Rights

TMADOCTHOMAS — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 19:44:38 GMT

Bumping this to see if anyone is able to answer my question regarding whether I need a VSC local account on the NetApp at all.

Here is a correlary question: if I do need to keep it, I've already given the account a custom role based on documented limited rights the account needs. However, some of those rights are still admin-oriented, which still leaves me a little concerned about someone gaining access to the account. The only application applied to the account is ontapi. I am not clear about what "ontapi" really means in this context. If someone obtained access to the account, what would they be able to do with the "ontapi" application?

Re: PSTK: Combine the output of Get-NcLunMap and Get-NcIgroup - custom object?

tyrone_owen_1 — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 11:11:52 GMT

So after a bit more research I came across this approach, however it still doesn't get me what I want:

function Get-CgiNcLunMapInfo () { $lunmapinfo = Get-NcLunMap $igroupinfo = Get-NcIgroup # Create custom object for $lunmapinfo # Empty array $lunmapinfoobjs = @() # Loop to set up a single custom object foreach ($lun in $lunmapinfo) { $props = @{ Vserver = $lun.Vserver Path = $lun.Path LunId = $lun.LunId Igroup = $lun.InitiatorGroup } $lunmapinfoobj = New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property $props # Append to array $lunmapinfoobjs += $lunmapinfoobj } # Create custom object for $igroupinfo # Empty array $igroupinfoobjs = @() # Loop to set up a single custom object foreach ($igroup in $igroupinfo) { $props = @{ Igroup = $igroup.Name Alua = $igroup.InitiatorGroupAluaEnabled OsType = $igroup.InitiatorGroupOsType GroupType = $igroup.InitiatorGroupType Initiators = $igroup.Initiators } $igroupinfoobj = New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property $props # Append to array $igroupinfoobjs += $igroupinfoobj } $props = @{ LunInfo = $lunmapinfoobjs IgroupInfo = $igroupinfoobjs } $obj = New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property $props Write-Output $obj }

The above script pushes the Get-NcLunMap objects/properties under the heading 'LunInfo' and the Get-NcIgroup objects/properties under the heading 'IgroupInfo', whereas I want to combine the properties into a single table, e.g.

Path,LunId,Igroup,Vserver,Alua,Igroup,OsType,GroupType,Initiators

Thanks

PSTK: Combine the output of Get-NcLunMap and Get-NcIgroup - custom object?

tyrone_owen_1 — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 11:31:13 GMT

Hi,

So I want to combine the output from the following two cmdlets:

Get-NcLunMap | Select-Object Vserver,Path,InitiatorGroup,LunId Get-NcIgroup | Select-Object InitiatorGroupAluaEnabled,InitiatorGroupOsType,InitiatorGroupType,Initiators

I've been looking at the Don Jones video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLUzPvA0HUo&t=42s, and I think I need to create a custom object. The cmdlets in the video return a single item, e.g. for a particular computer the Win32_OperatingSystem, however Get-NcLun/Igroup returns all of the LUNs/Igroups from a cluster. I can see how the Don Jones example would work for a single item but I don't understand how to upscale that when there are multiple objects returned.

Also as an aside, is there any way I can get an online/offline status for initiators into my completed table?

As you can probably tell, I'm a novice, any thoughts please?

Thanks

Unable to extend volume size using powershell

NetApp1313 — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 09:40:33 GMT

Set-NcVolSize :
===================================================================================
| This cmdlet must be directed to a data vserver. You are currently connected |
| to the cluster admin vserver. See the Toolkit web docs (Show-NcHelp) or online |
| help (Get-Help Connect-NcController -Examples) to learn more about directing |
| Toolkit cmdlets to a cluster or data vserver as required by Data ONTAP. |
===================================================================================
At line:1 char:1
+ Set-NcVolSize "vol_test" +1g
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (10.255.xx.xx:NcController) [Set-NcVolSize], Exception
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : NcVserverCmdlet,DataONTAP.C.PowerShell.SDK.Cmdlets.Volume.SetNcVolSize

Re: NetApp PowerShell Toolkit 9.7.1 released!

Seth_Goodman — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 21:41:49 GMT

I believe Get-NCLunSignature has a bug as its output is no longer a GUID as that is the expected result per help file and history.

Re: VSC 7.2 Removal from VCSA

Mark_SPS — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 18:40:01 GMT

Thank Jonathan.

Ran through the steps and all went smooth.

Re: Latest PowerShell toolkit will not import the module

OhGross — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 17:50:19 GMT

Has there been any progress on this bug?

Re: VSC 7.2 Removal from VCSA

jcolonfzenpr — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 19:30:37 GMT

I think the warning its more related to vvol datastore that have a direct dependency to the VSC vasa provider but for traditional datastore its safe.

I always do a vCenter backup before make any changes.

Hope this help.

VSC 7.2 Removal from VCSA

Mark_SPS — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 18:29:41 GMT

VSC 7.2 was installed on our VCSA 6.5 appliance. I haven't used or powered this on in over a year and want to remove it.

I found a couple of how to's, to remove the VSC, but just want to confirm if it is safe .

Found these

https://domalab.com/uninstall-netapp-vsc/

Concerned with the "Before Proceeding" section. Not totally uderstanding it's meaning.

https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMP12412050/html/GUID-A2D9B4C4-D278-4616-AACA-1C8B6FA668D0.html

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Mark

Re: Virtual Storage Console Limited Use Rights

TMADOCTHOMAS — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 18:04:39 GMT

Thanks ! I have seen that list before, but never thought about scripting the changes in PowerShell. I don't know that I will have time to write and troubleshoot a PS script for something like that however. Plus I really like being able to look in VSC and verify that settings are correct for all systems.

Re: Virtual Storage Console Limited Use Rights

JohnChampion — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 16:45:07 GMT

If the ONLY thing you want is the ESXi host settings, have you considered using a PowerCLI script to check/implement the settings?

They are documented here:

https://docs.netapp.com/vapp-97/topic/com.netapp.doc.vsc-dsg/GUID-346ACB95-6AD4-4DEA-8901-C9697AC3530F.html#GUID-346ACB95-6AD4-4DEA-8901-C9697AC3530F

Virtual Storage Console Limited Use Rights

TMADOCTHOMAS — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 20:43:10 GMT

Hello,

I am attempting to reduce rights to the bare minimum on local OnTAP service accounts to increase our security posture. I've created a custom role for the VSC service account that just allows for discovery, however it occurred to me that we can probably go further.

We use VSC for one single purpose only: to verify our ESX host settings match NetApp best practices. The only thing we do is browse to Overview and click Edit ESXi Host Settings when we have a new ESX host added. With this in mind: do we need an account on the cluster at all? Do we have to perform discovery if all we do is apply appropriate settings to ESX hosts? In other words: do I even need a local service account at all? Would love to hear any suggestions or thoughts!

Re: Get list of all folders and subfolders permissions in a netapp with millions of folders

Thoppay — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 19:00:32 GMT

If you trying to copy with NTFS permissions, have you looked into XCP?

https://xcp.netapp.com/

Re: nc-snapmirror -type DP not working as expected

waskew — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 15:22:30 GMT

They are using the PowerShell Toolkit 9.8 version and ONTAP is 9.7P8. Here is the syntax of the command they are running.

New-NcSnapmirror -Source $dr_svm_src_path -Destination $dr_svm_dest_path -Schedule 4hours -Type dp -Policy "DPDefault" -PreserveIdentity | Out-Null

Both source and destination have the option set.

Re: nc-snapmirror -type DP not working as expected

hmoubara — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 02:19:13 GMT

Hello,

Which data Ontap version you running and Powershell as well?

Did you invoke the options on both source and destination cluster?

Thanks

Re: nc-snapmirror -type DP not working as expected

waskew — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 13:37:29 GMT

At the bottom of that page it states you can still invoke DP.

Explicit invocations of DP continue to default to DP mode if you set the following cluster-wide option:

options replication.create_data_protection_rels.enable on

This option is ignored if you do not explicitly invoke DP.

Re: nc-snapmirror -type DP not working as expected

hmoubara — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 05:10:32 GMT

Hello,

XDP replaces DP as the SnapMirror default
Starting with ONTAP 9.3, SnapMirror extended data protection (XDP) mode replaces SnapMirror data protection (DP) mode as the SnapMirror default.

https://docs.netapp.com/ontap-9/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.netapp.doc.pow-dap%2FGUID-9FF688E3-9A37-49A4-8239-EB55409FA2D0.html

Thanks

nc-snapmirror -type DP not working as expected

waskew — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 19:04:45 GMT

We are seeing an issue with powershell not following the type specified for snapmirror. The cluster has this option to keep DP available:

options replication.create_data_protection_rels.enable on

Command: New-NcSnapmirror -Type DP

However, the type continues defaulting to XDP. Is this expected?

Re: how to run sysstat -M 1?

hmoubara — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 03:20:21 GMT

Hello,

Are you connecting to the Controller via RPC or HTTP/HTTPS?

Thanks

Re: how to run sysstat -M 1?

CHC_legacy_AH — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 20:25:13 GMT

The filer is 8.1.4P7

Powershell version is 5.1.19041.610

Re: Problems with Get-NcVol using variables

donny_lang — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 14:36:19 GMT

What version of the PSTK are you using? I am running 9.7.1.1 and it seems to work for me using the code from your examples. Are you able to duplicate the issue on another machine? Another thing that came to mind was case-sensitivity - is it possible that the volume name contains upper case letters in ONTAP but not in the variable?

Re: how to run sysstat -M 1?

hmoubara — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 09:56:22 GMT

Hello,

Can you confirm what version of Ontap and Powershell you running?

Thanks

Problems with Get-NcVol using variables

jmoss — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 20:50:05 GMT

I'm having a problem and I don't understand why it's not working and I'm now wondering if I'm running into some kind of bug and was looking for some suggestions. If I try the following:-

Get-NcVol -VServer ams4-lb8020svm-01 -Name vol_ams4_lbucs_10

$volName = "vol_ams4_lbucs_10"

Get-NcVol -VServer ams4-lb8020svm-01 -Name $volName

Both of these works, however if I use the following it doesn't return anything even though the variable is still of a type string:-

$volName = ($Datastores.VolumeName).ToString()

Get-NcVol -VServer ams4-lb8020svm-01 -Name $volName

Output of variable details:-

PS D:\Development\$volName
vol_lhr4_lbucs_01

PS D:\Development\$volname.GetType().Name
String

Anyone have any ideas?

Re: Get list of all folders and subfolders permissions in a netapp with millions of folders

AlbertoGonzalez — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:23:11 GMT

But in large systems with millions of folders and files walking through all shares and subfolder is very slow process and difficult to keep in sync. Also you need a user than can browse all shares and folders and files that is quite difficult case.

Would be great if you can provide an api or file to get all through ontap.

Re: cannot delete storage system from vcsa

jcolonfzenpr — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 19:35:19 GMT

Can you be more specific?

are you trying to delete it from Netapp VSC or directly from vCenter?

Any error messages or screenshot?

Re: how/where does Add-NcCredentials cache credentials

UdoJulius — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 10:01:01 GMT

Hello All

i am struggling with the same issue. As i wanted to clean my credentials i could not delete credentials from systems, that have been removed or renamed meanwhile.

I can not find the path suggested in the solution.

So please:

Is it possible to force remove-nccredential for a host entry that does not exists anymore??

I don't understand why its not possible to delete entries for non existing storage clusters or vservers.

Or is it possible to delete the whole file, where the credentials are stored? And if yes, i like to have the path where the credentials are stored.

While i was typing, iwas able to find this path C:\ProgramData\OnCommand\Common.

Thank you!!!!!

Re: VRA Pack for WFA?ref_source=cty-other campaign {udf}--1957

mirko — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 15:31:32 GMT

The WFA5 part is not an issue, I know the pack worked with WFA5.
But I haven't had the chance yet to work with VRA 8.

I'd say : try it and see if it works.

Kind regards,

Mirko Van Colen
Professional Services Consultant
+32 496 122285

Re: VRA Pack for WFA

MartinBoere — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 15:22:09 GMT

Hi,

We need to ask as he wrote the package for vrealize.

Hopefully he would have time for you.

regards

Martin

cannot delete storage system from vcsa

adminqskills — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 10:06:23 GMT

hi everybody,

we are trying to delete an old storage system from the vcsa. We are getting the error you cannot delete this storage system.

any ideas how to get this system out of the inventory?

ONTAP 9.7

ESXI 7.0.1

thanks in advance

VRA Pack for WFA

OvedS — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 10:15:18 GMT

Hi All,

We are using VRA 8.x and WFA 4 (to be upgrade to WFA 5), according to NetApp support site and a case that i have opened, only the community is supporting this kind of pack .

under "TOOLS" in the support site of NetApp we can find version 3.1b of "NetApp vRealize Integration Package for OnCommand"

Is someone is going to support VRA 8.x and WFA 5.x integration ?

Thanks

Re: snapcenter windows plugin silent install

bobalon — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 19:19:43 GMT

please ignore - found it after digging deeper on another volume

tip look in the instal logs to see where they have been placed and do not rely on the manual

snapcenter windows plugin silent install

bobalon — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 14:32:35 GMT

HI there

does anyone know if the plugin for microsoft windows can still be installed from the command line on the target host in SC V4.4. the manual still includes this option which infers its possible but the exe file referred to is no longer in the install, seems to have been replaced by an MSI package??

any updates or clues welcome

thank you