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

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

I'm reaching out for assistance with an issue I'm experiencing in the ONTAP simulator. We're unable to expand the drive space in the simulator, and I'm seeking guidance on how to resolve this issue.   Could you please provide assistance or guidance on how to expand the drive space in the ONTAP simulator? We would greatly appreciate your help in resolving this issue. ... View more

Hello all - I'm starting out scripting on some Windows Servers that have connected LUNs, and when trying to use Get-NcHostDisk, I get this error: Get-NcHostDisk : Could not load file or assembly 'System.Security.Principal.Windows, Version=4.1.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.   Is there a .NET Framework (or some other) requirement that I'm missing? I can't find any dependency info on what it may be looking for. This is running on Windows Server 2022, and I've tested with the two latest versions of the netapp.ONTAP module (9.16.1.2501 and 9.17.1.2509). Commands such as Get-NcVol work fine so I know I'm connected. ... View more