Current state. 12 x 960G drives (slots 0-5 and 18-23). Partitioned with ADP (production data on two small aggregates). Customer has found 12 x 7.6T SSDs without a shelf. They would like to add these to the existing half-populated shelf with the 960s, partition the new disks, create a new aggregate on each node with the larger disks, then move the data volumes to the new SSDs. This will require a manual partitioning of the 7.6T drives, as there isn't a current template to use for this size on the system (only 960G disks). Does anyone know if there is still a secret way to manually partition drives without having a source partition. I know that prior to ONTAP 9.6 you could do this. Even the KB article is showing this. System is on 9.11.1, so I am not sure this is available any longer. How to partition a drive manually in ONTAP 9 - NetApp Knowledge Base
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Good day All, I'm trying to understand if, given a onprem solution with the OnTap 9.x appliances sharing an SMB mount point for a VMware environment, i can PAIR the storage to a OnTap Select on a Oracle Cloud VMware Solution , which is a simple and regular unmanaged VMware Vpshere 8.x , where the customer has access like in a on-prem solution. Of course having the possibility to extend the ontap to this environment in the cloud, completely managed by the customer, with all the data replicated using the features and capabilities from NetApp will be a major milestone to provide a DR environment, and consolidate the actual two Datacenter connected with a metrocluster IP. I don't mind to provide a managed environment, this is not the case, but at least to be sure it is working as expected, they can use their license and the application is supported like in every virtualized environment. Thank you. Cheers
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Dear community, we migrated a Windows filer based on Vmware, which drew its capacity from a FAS2520, into an existing SVM (AFF300 - OS 9.8P19 incl. FlexPool/StorageGrid - V 11.6.0.9). The videos stored there (mpeg) - on a CIFS-Volume - can no longer be loaded via the browser (Edge, Firefox as a test) if they are > 45MB in size (this works on desktop level); this also worked perfectly before the migration. If you copy the files back to the Windows filer, this is possible again in the same browser; so it can't be due to the browser settings - right? Are there any settings at the volume level that can/need to be adjusted? Any idea ? Thank you - best regards Michael
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Yesterday I attached a DS460c shelf to a FAS2720 with HA cabling. Sysconfig command shows HA, and all the disks have path A and B (storage disk -path). But the alert "SinglePathtoDiskShelf_Alert" is still active. I think this is ok, but for the future, should I: A. Suppress this alert B. Delete this alert? Will it come back if it is valid in both cases?
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