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Important information for all NetApp customers using the new A70/A90/A1K:
Being the customer who experienced the issue and helped NetApp to identify it I feel responsible to inform this community about the real possible fatal effects like we faced them, because the description in the Customer Bulletin below does not reflect the worst things that can happen.
Due to this issue, you may face true data corruption without a chance to detect it immediately.
(NetApp Support Site - JiraNgage - CONTAP-348855)
It means Clients/Applications/Databases read data and receive the wrong content "silently". Now, you need to know that the majority of applications does not have a mechanism, which is checking this and will therefore possibly not realize that the data is wrong.
SU575: [Impact: Critical] SAN connected hosts may experience intermittent read checksum validation errors when hosted in LUNs or NMVe namespaces on specific NetApp platforms - NetApp Knowledge Base
I would strongly recommend to talk to NetApp before using these systems in production environments . I fix for 9.15.1 should be available soon. (I assume NetApp will not seriously recommend to use 9.16.1RC1 on productive environments)
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Commvault is triggering ontap snapshot creation/deletion via AIQUM. with MAV rule "volume snapshot delete" this creates an approval request instead of just deleting it. I am wondering if there is any way to exclude this account from this rule. so something like operation="volume snapshot delete" and query="-requested-user=!<AIQUM account>". For the query options I have not found any documentation.
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Hello, Without any changes to our infrastructure, we can no longer access our NetApp filer using the domain\username login. We receive the error: "Error: Authentication failed. Please verify Username and Password." Only the admin account can currently access the filer. The output of the command vserver cifs domain discovered-servers show returns a status of undetermined and unavailable Regards,
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Hey there.
Under SAN configurations for HA pair, attempting to reduce the "loss of reduntancy" aspect while ontap software upgrades...
Was wondering if the below scenario make sense.
MPIO on hosts will determine the best 'active" path" based on which node's aggregate the LUN is hosted...
if an aggregate relocation or SFO is issued, is the active path automatically change to use the partner path as optimesed path?
if so yes ,then i could upgrade the "vacated" node ,and then do the same extra step on the other node (by ARL or SFO) ,thus be able to manage the upgarde's impact on what the hosts are experiensing as far the optimesed paths ,or loss of active paths ?
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