topic How many filers are you managing with DFM and what is the specs of your setup? in Active IQ Unified Manager Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/Active-IQ-Unified-Manager-Discussions/How-many-filers-are-you-managing-with-DFM-and-what-is-the-specs-of-your-setup/m-p/49358#M10184 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN>We have a Dell PowerEdge 1850 with a Xeon 2.8Mhz processor, Win2k3 Standard Edition SP2, 2GB RAM, 100Mbps network connections managing 30 NetApp filers (mostly FAS270,3020,3070). </SPAN><SPAN>We upgraded to DFM Operations Manager 3.7 and we have performance advisor turned on. We started having local HD space issues, which I solved by turning on folder compression on the perf folder, which took the data on disk for that folder down by 90%.</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN>I have begun to start seeing mgmt station load too high messages once a month after adding the last 4 filers.</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN>I was wondering if anyone is managing more than 30 filers on a DFM server and what the specs of their setup are or if anyone has any suggestions for changes to my current setup.</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN>Thanks in advance, I think this discussion can help many NetApp customers.</SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:31:39 GMT unixdiskms 2025-06-05T07:31:39Z How many filers are you managing with DFM and what is the specs of your setup? https://community.netapp.com/t5/Active-IQ-Unified-Manager-Discussions/How-many-filers-are-you-managing-with-DFM-and-what-is-the-specs-of-your-setup/m-p/49358#M10184 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN>We have a Dell PowerEdge 1850 with a Xeon 2.8Mhz processor, Win2k3 Standard Edition SP2, 2GB RAM, 100Mbps network connections managing 30 NetApp filers (mostly FAS270,3020,3070). </SPAN><SPAN>We upgraded to DFM Operations Manager 3.7 and we have performance advisor turned on. We started having local HD space issues, which I solved by turning on folder compression on the perf folder, which took the data on disk for that folder down by 90%.</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN>I have begun to start seeing mgmt station load too high messages once a month after adding the last 4 filers.</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN>I was wondering if anyone is managing more than 30 filers on a DFM server and what the specs of their setup are or if anyone has any suggestions for changes to my current setup.</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN>Thanks in advance, I think this discussion can help many NetApp customers.</SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:31:39 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Active-IQ-Unified-Manager-Discussions/How-many-filers-are-you-managing-with-DFM-and-what-is-the-specs-of-your-setup/m-p/49358#M10184 unixdiskms 2025-06-05T07:31:39Z Re: How many filers are you managing with DFM and what is the specs of your setup? https://community.netapp.com/t5/Active-IQ-Unified-Manager-Discussions/How-many-filers-are-you-managing-with-DFM-and-what-is-the-specs-of-your-setup/m-p/49362#M10185 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Many of the big customers are managig more than 100 filers with Operations Manager Server. Refer the sizing guide&nbsp; at the link <A href="http://media.netapp.com/documents/tr-3440.pdf" target="_blank">http://media.netapp.com/documents/tr-3440.pdf</A> for details on what are the supported configurations and the related performance.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:41:57 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Active-IQ-Unified-Manager-Discussions/How-many-filers-are-you-managing-with-DFM-and-what-is-the-specs-of-your-setup/m-p/49362#M10185 ravir 2009-01-27T09:41:57Z