Hi all, I’d like to confirm whether a FAS2820 with no internal drives installed, and only one external DS212 shelf fully populated with SSDs, can enable ADPv2 (root-data-data). I’d also like to clarify the underlying principle and whether there is any official documentation to support this.🤔 ... View more

Hello, team. We have an old FAS2040 system running 8.1.3 Data Ontap, we want to upgrade this system to use in our LAB environment.   Please, could anyone share an 8.1.4P4 image with us?   Thank you. ... View more

Hi, I am a university student conducting an academic project on Data Replication using SnapMirror in NetApp ONTAP. I have registered using my official university email. I kindly request access to the ONTAP Simulator for non-commercial, educational use. This will support my learning and final-year project submission. Thank you for your support. Sincerely, Atish Lohade BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE, PILANI ... View more

hello to all.   ı created a demo environment in my lab with 2 netapp and 2 vmware hosts, the hosts are ISCSI connected to the netapp devices.And created a mediator in 3rd location , and tried to evaluate the disaster scenarios  for Netapp Business Continuity. basic tests are OK, but when it comes to a hard one, the system is stuck (or i am stuck 🙂   ) test is as, the mediator  had been down, and after that ,the source netapp is down. while this happens ,the vms go down, and ISCS luns are deatteched from the ESXi hosts. In recovery scenarios, it says unmap luns ,delete ConsistecnyGroup and delete Snapmirror relationship ,but i cannot do any of them ,since both the mediator and source netapp is down. And i cannot power on the vms.   what must i do ??, i tried to get in diag mode, and used some commands with -force parameter but didn worked   ... View more