We are running OnTAP 9.12.1(P11) and are considering implementing Autonomous Ransomware Protection. While I will test it, it's hard to simulate real-world scenarios perfectly. I'd love to hear from fellow admins who have implemented Autonomous Ransomware Protection what their take on it is. Was it performant? Was it mostly accurate or were there a lot of false positives? Any particular type of data it did or didn't work well on? I'd love any feedback anyone is willing to give! Thanks. ... View more

Hello, I have a big problem with my buckets again. The problem seems to do with an iconsistent flexgroup volume.   ch-strt-cl-001::*> volume show -is-inconsistent true Vserver Volume Aggregate State Type Size Available Used% --------- ------------ ------------ ---------- ---- ---------- ---------- ----- ch_fx_svm_s3_001_dest fg_oss_1680863045 - mixed RW 215.6TB - - ch_fx_svm_s3_001_dest fg_oss_1680863045__0001 ch_n1_aggr002_FPP offline RW 5.53TB - - 2 entries were displayed. ch-strt-cl-001::*>   How to fix Inconsistent flexgroup volume? I actually wanted to delete the 3 buckets on this volume, but ONTAP doesn't let me do it. Complaining about existing S3 SnapMirror relationship and Failed to check if the bucket is empty. Reason: Volume is offline.  I can not remove the bucket thru snapmirror object-store config delete -object-store-name either.   When I found out that one of the fg volumes is offline I tried to make it online, but also did not work: ch-strt-cl-001::*> volume modify -volume fg_oss_1680863045__0001 -state force-online -vserver ch_fx_svm_s3_001_dest Error: command failed: Unable to set volume attribute "state" for volume "fg_oss_1680863045__0001" on Vserver "ch_fx_svm_s3_001_dest". Reason: Volume is inconsistent.   In the meantime all my S3 SnapMirror relationships are not syncing anymore because of this problem on another SVM it seems. I have no idea where the problem is coming from. Hopefully somebody can help me out? ... View more

I'm about to upgrade our SnapCenter infrastructure from 5.0P2 to 6.1P1, with the exception of five SQL Servers running Windows Server 2008R2 and 2012R2 [and yes we are pushing them to migrate to new servers]. Those Windows versions can't run SC 6.x [or for that matter some of the new prerequisites like the new PowerShell version requirement].   The problem: I just discovered that the IMT indicates that both 6.0.1 and 6.1 running on the SC server is not compatible with 5.x Windows or SQL plug-ins. I could upgrade only to 6.0 I suppose, which can run the Windows 5.x plug-in and possibly the SQL one [I say possibly because the online documentation and IMT for the plug-in say the SQL 5.x plug-in is compatible, but the IMT for the server says it is not].   Any suggestions? Is 6.0 sufficiently stable without going to 6.0.1 or 6.1? Is 6.0 in fact compatible with the SQL 5.x plug-in? ... 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