topic Re: vserver language setting in ONTAP Discussions

vserver language setting

RONNIEMBENGTSEN — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:24:25 GMT

Hi,

Anyone that knows why you have more options for language settings when creating a vserver in the CLI then you have in the gui from system manager?

When creating a vserver from system manager you can choose language 'C' but when doing it from CLI you can choose both 'C' and 'C.UTF8'

for use with special characters it can be very bad to choose the wrong language.

- Ronnie

Re: vserver language setting

mrinal — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 17:28:36 GMT

Hi Ronnie,

I believe this issues has been reported as a bug to the System Manager team and will be fixed in an upcoming release.

You should be able to get the same list of languages on System Manager as you do on the ONTAP CLI.

Re: vserver language setting

RONNIEMBENGTSEN — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 17:51:45 GMT

Hi Mrinal,

Ok that is good, if it has been reported. Could you find a bug number for me? I could not search it up myself. I would like to follow the bug.

Re: vserver language setting

mrinal — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:06:58 GMT

Hi,

I do not think there is a public report on the bug at this point. I will check with the System Manager team if they plan to file a public report on it.

Re: vserver language setting

bloehlein — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:12:47 GMT

Hi Mrinal,

is there a way to specify a default language for newly created vservers? Since the language can't be changed afterwards this could cause some trouble, e.g. with snapmirror relationships...

Re: vserver language setting

mrinal — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 07:25:06 GMT

The language for a Vserver can only be defined at the time of creating the Vserver. If the language setting for a Vserver needs to be set to a different value then you will need to create a new Vserver with the correct language settings.

Re: vserver language setting

nisarsayed — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 01:51:04 GMT

Question:

What language should we set for vServer for FCP services with SnapMirror Replication ? What if we had already chosen English-US to create this vServer?

Re: vserver language setting

bbjholcomb — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 02:22:47 GMT

Once you set the language for a vserver I don't believe it can be changed. In 8.2 you can create volumes with different languages. Once volume language is set the destination volume for snapmirror must be the same.

Re: vserver language setting

nisarsayed — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 02:39:33 GMT

bbjholcomb,

Thankyou!

Re: vserver language setting

parisi — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:56:19 GMT

Actually, 8.2 allows you to modify the language of the vserver.

::> vserver modify -vserver nfs -language

C da de

en en_US es

fi fr he

it ja ja_JP.PCK

ko no nl

pt sv zh

zh.GBK zh_TW zh_TW.BIG5

C.UTF-8 ar ar.UTF-8

cs cs.UTF-8 da.UTF-8

de.UTF-8 en.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8

es.UTF-8 fi.UTF-8 fr.UTF-8

he.UTF-8 hr hr.UTF-8

hu hu.UTF-8 it.UTF-8

ja.UTF-8 ja_v1 ja_v1.UTF-8

ja_JP.PCK.UTF-8 ja_JP.932 ja_JP.932.UTF-8

ja_JP.PCK_v2 ja_JP.PCK_v2.UTF-8 ko.UTF-8

no.UTF-8 nl.UTF-8 pl

pl.UTF-8 pt.UTF-8 ro

ro.UTF-8 ru ru.UTF-8

sk sk.UTF-8 sl

sl.UTF-8 sv.UTF-8 tr

tr.UTF-8 zh.UTF-8 zh.GBK.UTF-8

zh_TW.UTF-8 zh_TW.BIG5.UTF-8

Now whether it's a good idea is another story... if you have volumes with different languages, it might cause issues.

Re: vserver language setting

scottgelb — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 14:15:17 GMT

I remember that Vserver language can be changed as of 8.2 but not Flexvol language. 7-Mode allows this but I rarely ever ran into a case where we ever changed it.

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Re: vserver language setting

venuk — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 14:32:00 GMT

i dont think so. SVM (previously Vserver) language setting can't be changed. Starting with clustered Data ONTAP 8.2, volumes in the same SVM can have different language settings, but langauge setting of SVM cant be changed.

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Re: vserver language setting

scottgelb — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 14:36:53 GMT

I was able to change svm language once in 8.2 on my vsim. But in production I would be very cautious doing so.

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