Hi,   trying to use ansible to create fc target for a vserver but no luck,  playbook below , the error is fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Error: the python NetApp-Lib module is required. Import error: No module named 'netapp_lib'"}   not sure what is missing, any idea?   playbook -- - hosts: localhost vars: netapp_hostname: cluster01 netapp_username: svmadmin vars_prompt: - name: netapp_password prompt: "Please enter Netapp password (hidden from output)" private: yes tasks: - name: Create FCP interface netapp.ontap.na_ontap_interface: vserver: svmfcp31 state: present interface_name: svmtest_0g_tgt interface_type: fc data_protocol: fcp current_node: node-01 current_port: 0g role: data failover_policy: disabled force_subnet_association: false admin_status: up hostname: "{{ netapp_hostname }}" username: "{{ netapp_username }}" password: "{{ netapp_password }}" ... View more

Hi There,  I am not sure i picked the correct Board, but here goes.   We have a lot of older data on several windows CIFS that needs to be cleaned up , preferably deleted.   Rather than just search the folder structure, we were wondering if we could use Netapps built in  File Analytics  Rest APIs to help us  develop and use scripts.  My problem is we don't have much in the way of in house expertise to create these .  I am looking for some guidance on what i could share from your input  here to a consultant who would know what do do with it.   We are looking to get rid of data that hasn't been modified or accessed in 6 years.  My thinking is a script could scan our cifs and give us a report and then give us a option to delete.   Feel free to ask me questions on this request.   thanks, Scott Is this doable?   ... View more

I am not sure if this is the correct forum, but I did see other posts about NetApp volumes here. Please advise of the correct forum if needed. On the Google Cloud Platform, I deployed  a STANDARD service level 2048gb NetApp storagepool in uscentral1. Then I created a 100gb volume also in uscentral1.   I have a question about this volume's performance. When I use the FIND command to traverse through a directory, the performance is noticeably slower on the Netapp volume versus the same data on the local drive. At first I was thinking I needed to increase my throughput performance by increasing my service level or making the volume bigger(which increases throughput performance). But after thinking about it, my FIND command is not moving data, it's just traversing through the directory. So it seems this is not a throughput issue?   Does anyone have insight as to the performance issue here:   root@server1:~# time find /data_local/cache/4c71-4cb6-bd50-d80aa7/ -type f | wc -l 4995 real 0m0.119s user 0m0.058s sys 0m0.059s root@server1:~# time find /data_NetappVol/cache/4c71-4cb6-bd50-d80aa7/ -type f | wc -l 4995 real 0m3.968s user 0m0.078s sys 0m0.219s ... View more

we are currently using Rubrik CDM and snapdiff for NAS backups. according to NetApp, the snapdiff will not be supported after version 8.17. Rubrik is pushing us to a different backup solution of NAS cloud direct for NAS backups, but this is a duplicated investment and a lot of data movement. does anyone have more details about NetApp snapdiff support?   looks if we lost snapdiff, the NAS backup on Rubrik CDM will still work, but on some shares which have multi millions files, the indexing and metascan will take hours to complete, it is causing user access issue to the shares.   Please share the information or workaround if you have. thanks in advance  ... View more

Hello,   In logs: 4/1/2025 03:00:02   xxxxxxxxx-16   INFORMATIONAL unowned.disk.reminder: 5 disks are currently unowned. Use the "disk assign" command to assign the disks to a system. 4/1/2025 03:00:01   xxxxxxxxx-15   INFORMATIONAL unowned.disk.reminder: 5 disks are currently unowned. Use the "disk assign" command to assign the disks to a system.   All disks assigned to aggr, nodes and Pools (spare)   xxxxxxxxxxxx::*> disk show -container-type unknown There are no entries matching your query. xxxxxxxxxxxx::*>   NetApp Release 9.12.1P12: Mon Apr 15 02:18:12 UTC 2024 Both controllers: FAS8700   ... View more