Have a problem where dedupe on a aggregate is running extremely slow.  Some operations have been running for 2 weeks or more on volumes it you take minutes to run.   We are running Ontap 9.7 P3.  The hardware is FAS2620, Shelf : DS212-12 with IOM12E modules with 7TB SATA disks.   There are no errors in the logs.  Everything shows normal.  File access is normal.  Netapp support so far has not been helpful.  They had me try stopping a starting  depdupe runs.   Most the the time the dedupe does not says it is stopping but never does.  Have be able to start and stop the process on some small volumes but dedupe still take extremely long  to complete or the process hangs up for long periods.  There in nothing running in the job that would affect it.     Any Ideas or experience with this problem Thanks ... View more

Hi,   we have a problem with one of our filers. It is a two node cluster with 8060 nodes.   We are getting from time to time theser errors: Event: Nblade.nfsV4PoolExhaust: NFS Store Pool for Client exhausted. Associated object type is CLUSTER_NODE with UUID: qqqqqqq. Message Name: Nblade.nfsV4PoolExhaust Sequence Number: 12361461 Description: This message occurs when one of the NFSv4 store pools is exhausted. Action: If the NFS server is unresponsive for more than 10 minutes after this error occurs, contact NetApp technical support. It seems, that this error doesn't cause any issues, but I would like to get rid of it. You never know, when it would cause an outage.   As I understand this error correctly, it looks like, that there are no client connections left on that node. Is that correct? Yes, we have several hundreds of VMs, using several different volumes on this node. On the other node, there are lesser client connections...   What is the best way to debug this?   Thank you very much!   BR Florian ... View more

By default, 5 minutes would be the polling interval, and can be adjusted to 10 mins or more. Can I set it to be any values less than 5 minutes? What is the minimum of the value?   Thanks ! ... View more

Hey, I read somewhere that with FlexGroup as a vmware datastore you can achieve QOS in a vm granular-level. how can it be done? Just by setting QOS policies on the folders that represent each vm with all of its files? Or does it mean to create a qtree for each vm and then setting a QOS policy on it? Because the latter is very uncomfortable and needs constant maintenance as new vms are deployed and created. thanks, ... View more

How do you browse a CIFS Server using the local administrator account? We have a CIFS Server that's going to be disconnected from the domain, and our admins then need to access it afterwards to copy data off. I cannot figure out how to connect. I've tried:   net use <drive> /user:<cifs_server_name>\administrator \\<cifs_server_name>\c$   and I get "system error 67 the network name cannot be found".  I can browse the CIFS Server in Windows Explorer and open it in Computer Management with my domain creds. Any suggestions? ... View more