Hello all, We are using traditional QoS policy groups, and I would like to find out if Adaptive QoS is a better fit for our environment, since our clients are currently getting the same performance regardless of their service tier. That being said, I need some guidance on how to test this and/or generate IOPS. I ran a test using the "dd" command to generate I/O on the volume, but it looks like the workload didn't stress the system enough for the adaptive QoS policy to really kick in. I've researched the 'dd' command, and it seems like it mostly performs large sequential writes and it doesn't generate the kind of random, high-frequency I/O that would properly exercise the QoS policy. I don't have much experience with these type of tests. Any ideas? I would really appreciate anyone's help! Thank you, Joel.
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Hi all, we are designing an archiving workflow and we’d like to get your advice on the best practices from the NetApp perspective. Our source is a NetApp ONTAP cluster with SnapLock volumes (WORM). The target is a remote LTO tape library (WORM media) managed by Commvault. The goal is long-term retention (10+ years). From an ONTAP performance and stability standpoint, does it make sense to use a staging disk for the initial backup and then move it to tape, or have you seen better results with other workflows? Also, considering the data is immutable, would you recommend a "Clean Archive" approach to minimize reads from the SnapLock volumes, or are there benefits to periodic full reads for data integrity checks? Any insights would be greatly appreciated!
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Hello, Could anyone help suggest what is the best tool to use in order to pull an audit report that shows the following info: - files, - folders, - permissions, - which user have access to what, - which groups each user belong to. I am new to this environment that comprises 5 different NetApp clusters and management would like to have an idea of the current permissions structure in NetApp. The info will then be used to restructure the groups and permissions. If possible, include a sample result generated by the tool. Thank you
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Hi, Is anyone using SnapCenter 4.8 to backup Oracle on RHEL 6 and using ONTAP 9.15.1? I know this is not a supported configuration : ) We are currently using ONTAP 9.13.1 and it is working. Thanks
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NetApp C30 storage system with two nodes. Two aggregates have been created as per best practices, each with approximately 99.3 TB of usable capacity. Aggregate 1 hosts a CIFS/SMB FlexVol that is currently utilizing around 80 TB out of 99.3 TB. Aggregate 2 hosts an iSCSI volume that is utilizing approximately 10 TB out of 99.3 TB, leaving significant free capacity available. The CIFS share is accessed by users via the mapped network path: \\192.168.30.101\dxb_data\Data All user data resides within a single qtree (without quotas), and the volume junction path is /DXB_DATA, Storage efficency is enable Due to capacity growth on Aggregate 1, I would like to utilize aggregate free capacity for existing CIFS shares. The key requirement is to ensure that end users can continue accessing the HR folder using the existing mapped drive path, with no disruption to service and no changes required on the client side.
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