I have a group of NetApp devices that primarily provide storage for a virtual machine cluster. They are directly connected via FC devices. Our initial strategy was to partition the storage into blocks and allocate them directly to VMware vSphere. Due to limitations at the time, we set each block size to 16TB, which led to a disaster. Many years later, we are facing space constraints and want to reclaim this space, but we are finding it difficult to properly map the partitions. I understand there is VSC (Virtual Storage Console for VMware vSphere), now called ONTAP Tools for VMware vSphere, but I cannot download and use it because our device's license has expired. Is there no other solution? Also, our device version is 8.2.5 7-Mode + VMware vSphere 6.7. Is VSC the only option? The system cannot be upgraded; we have many older devices running critical business operations, and upgrading might introduce unforeseen problems. ... View more

Hello, I noticed that the latency breakdown category in Grafana dashboard is not visible even though after adding QoS/Counter Templates in the Nabox VM. Can you please let me know if the workload counter metrics is exposed or not via API in ONTAP vSimulator software?  The latency breakdown panel displayed in the below screenshot should be visible but it isn't. The screenshot is just for reference. I'm accessing the Grafana Dashboard via Nabox in which I've added the ONTAP system (vSIM). Please let me know if I'm missing something here. ... View more

Hello, I am looking for help regards ONAP and add a storageVM to my ONPAP. The error message I get is: [Job 69] Job failed: Failed to create the Active Directory machine account "DC1". Reason: Kerberos Error: KDC has no support for encryption type Details: Error: Machine account creation procedure failed [ 61] Loaded the preliminary configuration. [ 64] Successfully connected to ip 192.168.6.122, port 88 using TCP **[ 75] FAILURE: Could not authenticate as ** 'Administrator@PALWARE.ORG': KDC has no support for ** encryption type (KRB5KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP) .   For some test with NetApp I need an SMB-Share hosted by NetApp. Appriciate your help. I guess   best regards, Roland see also attached screenshot ... View more

Is mandatory to use the ONTAP ONE to implement Metrocluster IP or it can be implemented with ONTAP Base?  Kind Regards. Kristiane  ... View more

Hello. I am currently installing a metrocluster ip system with two AFF-A70 with 24disk each ADP2 setting. ONTAP ver. 9.16.1P6 I am having a technical difficulties with setting up as a Active/Passive mode. What I am intending is for one cluster to serve only data and mirror on the other, once switched over the mirror cluster would serve as a data role. Is there a guide or methods to make one system to serve data on one cluster and mirror standby on the another? Or is it simply not possible to set it up on metrocluster ip? I am trying a few other methods but it seems not to work at all.   These are the documents that I have been looking into. https://www.netapp.com/media/13480-tr4705.pdf https://kb.netapp.com/on-prem/ontap/mc/MC-KBs/How_to_initialize_a_MetroCluster_IP_for_an_active-passive_setup https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap-metrocluster/install-ip/task_sw_config_configure_clusters.html https://www.netapp.com/pdf.html?item=/media/13481-tr4689pdf.pdf ... View more