I'm testing Snapshot locking/SnapLock and I'm seeing behavior that I didn't expect. I have a Snapshot policy configured to take hourly Snapshots with Maximum Snapshot copies = 4 and SnapLock retention period = 4. I always have 5 hourly Snapshot copies though instead of 4. This screen grab was taken at 2:25 PM. I don't expect the the Snapshot copy from 2:05 PM to still exist. I'm pretty sure that this is because the SnapLock retention period doesn't expire in time for it to be deleted. It must be a matter of seconds. On a volume with a large amount of data and/or changes between Snapshots, that extra one could end up taking lots of storage. I just want to ask if others have experienced this and if it's expected, or if there's a workaround? I have a support case for this and the TSE did not have an immediate answer but will look into it.
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Hello, When I run the following PowerShell command: Get-NcExportRule -vserver * all the columns on the screen populate with the proper information, however when I export it to a .csv file, the columns Protocol, RoRule, RwFule and SuperUser are all populated with System.String[]. Anyone have any suggestions?
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Hello, We have a single node NetApp Select NAS on an old Dell FC630 blade server, running an Intel Xeon E5-2667 v4 3.2GHz CPU. We recently purchased some new VMware servers running Intel Xeon Gold 6542Y 2.90GHz. I wanted to vMotion the Select NAS over to the new servers, but it seems to be blocked due to a fixed CPU reservation of 12800MHz, I would need to reduce this to 11600MHz to move the VM. Is it possible for me to adjust this setting in VMware, or will it cause the VM to fail to boot? I noticed that changing CPU speed is not supported, so I was concerned this is store in some config file within the VM that will make it fail to boot (I assume this is locked due to per core licensing). I tried contacting support, but they where not very helpful and wouldn't help me move the VM. Thanks
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Hi, Acording to the documents I have read I need an intermeadiate step for my upgrade. I can only find 9.16. How can I access downloads and docs for 9.13? Can I upgrade 9.11 to 9.13 or do I need 9.12 as well? Thank you, Richard
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Hi All, We have a NetApp cluster, OLDNode-01 OLDNode-02 OLDNode-03 OLDNode-04 NEWNode-05 NEWNode-06 NewNodes-05 and 06 are our new controllers and I believe I have finished migrating everything from OLDNodes-01-04 over to 05 and 06. We next want to remove Nodes 01 to 04 from our cluster completely. Is there a nice easy way to do this? Is it non-disruptive? Are there any final checks I need to do? Is ONTAP smart enough to know if things could go wrong and tell us beforehand? Just wondered what your experiences were. If there are things we need to know and basically make sure this runs as smooth as possible without disruption (or a minimum)
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