I am thinking to look for a powercli command that does this and then prepare a long list of the command for each volume, using Excel and notepad. And then copy the commands in 10 at the time?    also need to delete hundreds of old snapshots in those volumes. How can I do this? Is there a time switch I can use with a powershell command that lets me delete all snapshots older than 4 weeks for instance? ... View more

Previously we had another box of FAS2750 running on 9.11.1 where we migrate older 7-mode data using snapmirror TDP. It was so good to have. Now we have another new box FAS2820 - ontap 9.13. We need to migrate another old filer FAS2220 ontap 8.1.4 almost 80TBs of data to the new box. This filer has hundreds of millions of files from our engineering test log.  We notice snapmirror TDP is no longer supported. Is there any replacement for it? XCP from Netapp, we have to setup new box on Linux and Windows and lot of other setup here and there. This is very troublesome and to migrate hundreds of millions of files is a big problem. We cannot afford long downtime. And we cannot place NFS export into read only as data is going to access read+write.   Any advised of better way to migrate the 80TBs from FAS2220 ontap 8.1.4 7 mode  to FAS2     ... View more

Hello everyone,           there is a  FAS2720 with a external disk shelf DS212C,  and the disks inside the controller is partitioned, but the disks in external disk shelf is non-partitioned. all of 12 disks in external disk shelf is used to create a data aggr, no spare disk is reserved(Ontap  generates "Spares_Low" Error, because there are only partitioned spares, no whole spare disk) . There are many data in the data aggr, and it's not possible to delete aggr and then recreate.  I wonder whether auto-partition of internal disks  can be disabled, that is,  after assigned, the internal spare is still non-partitioned. if this is the case, whether can the data aggr that is comprised of the external disks share the spare disk in the internal controller chassis?   Thanks in advance ... View more

Hello!   Is it possible to add network ports (virtual) to an OTS cluster?   I know that there are predefined ports and roles for each: e0a, e0b, e0c, e0d,  e0e,  e0f, e0g.   For example, can I add another virtual nic and make it e0h for example?   Use case. I have a situation where 4 DATA portgroups are needed. We only have e0a and e0b as data network ports for a given node in an OTS cluster.   Regards, Pedro ... 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