Hi All,
Touch wood, Our Netapp is still alive and kicking 🙂
This question is for knowledge / learning purpose only.
Q : Say I have a FAS3210 Dual Controller / head Configuration with 2 Disk Shelves, Say I have assigned One Disk Shelf to each controller respectively, Say I have CIFS shares on One controller (Data = 4TB) and on the second disk shelf I have LUNS mapped on Windows and Linux boxes.
Assuming I have no backups of anything on the storage ( in reality, We do practice backups as a strict procedure with test restores and backup health checks).
So :
Controller - 0 : One Aggregate (apart from the root aggregate), ONE Volume with all available space, CIFS Shares inside that volume, Data = 4TB+
Controller - 1 : One Aggregate (apart from the root aggregate), One Volume with 4 or 5 LUNS mapped to Windows or Nix Hosts.
Imagine if both controllers are dead at the same time or say after an hour of the first failure both controllers are pronounced completely dead / failed. What will or how will I recover the data on it ?
Would it be :
a) A simple case of replacing both of the failed controllers and they will magically pick up the configuration stored somewhere on the disks ?
OR
b) How would I recover the whole storage environment with minimum downtime once the controllers have arrived, so minus the shipping time to customers facility.
Will be grateful for your suggestions / answers on this.
I am new to netapp world - in fact san world and am interested to learn more and more.
Thanks for reading !!
