Hi everyone, I am experiencing an issue while adding new drives to our AFF A250 system running ONTAP 9.8P3. We have recently installed 8x 3.84TB NVMe SED (Part Number: X4011A) drives. However, the system marks them as "Unsupported" and provides the error "notallflashdisk" in the CLI. Here are the technical details: System: AFF A250 Current ONTAP Version: 9.8P3 New Disk Model: X4011A (3.84TB NVMe SSD) New Disk Firmware: NA54 Existing Disks: 1.75TB NVMe (Working fine) Symptoms: * storage disk show output shows "Unsupported" for the new drives. The error message is "notallflashdisk". The "Owner" field is blank and I cannot assign them to a node. I suspect this is a Disk Qualification Package (DQP) issue since the disk model/firmware is newer than our current ONTAP release. My Questions: Will updating the DQP to the latest version be enough to resolve the "notallflashdisk" error and allow me to create a new aggregate? We are planning to upgrade to ONTAP 9.16.1. Does 9.16.1 natively support X4011A drives without a separate DQP update? Regarding the NVMe_oF license: It currently shows as "not-installed". Since we use iSCSI/FCP for host connectivity, can we still use these NVMe drives in a separate aggregate without the NVMe_oF license? Any guidance or confirmation on the DQP/Upgrade path would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
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Hello, I have a customer that ingests millions of small files into a netapp volume and then copies the data to another directory in the same volume. Sometimes my customer experiences latency when copying the files. I don’t see volume or controller latency. I would think the files are already in cache / WAFL when the files are initially ingest therefore the write to another directory would be fast? Is there a way to remedy this? would NFS trunking be a solution? The environment FAS 8300 controllers running Ontap 9.15p7 Linux servers running RHEL 9 NFS v4.2 Thanks
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My question is Does NVMe/FC persistent port support include ASAr2 or just only ASA ? I am not sure what ASA means. Does it also include ASAr2 ? From TR-4080, ONTAP Overew, Takeover and giveback : Should a controller fail, its partner assumes data service provision using its own interfaces. if the node is an ASA, then persistent ports and/or iSCSI LIF failover are enabled and supported, failed interfaces are reactivated on the partner by either migrating the IP address (iSCSI LIF failover) or relocating the HBA WWNN (for FCP and NVMe/FC persistent ports), ensuring hosts do not encounter lost storage paths. Thanks and regards, Chun Chiang
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Hi On my RHEL7 some NFS share sporadicaly time out during the mounting phase. It s not always the same share if i connect on the computer if i mount manually it works like a charm. I guess it s kind of performance problem as i m mount numerous NFs share ( more than 100 ) . 025-11-14T00:20:48+01:00 inti022.cnrgh.fr systemd: Mounting /env/export/v_bex... 2025-11-14T00:22:18+01:00 inti022.cnrgh.fr systemd: env-export-v_bex.mount mounting timed out. Stopping. 2025-11-14T00:22:18+01:00 inti022.cnrgh.fr systemd: env-export-v_bex.mount mount process exited, code=killed status=15 2025-11-14T00:22:18+01:00 inti022.cnrgh.fr systemd: Failed to mount /env/export/v_bex. I have put the following options timeo=600,retrans=2 Does someone have some hints to debug further
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