looks the SCV is independent from SnapCenter. we configured SVM on VMs. will we need snapcenter to make the SCV to work? is there any relationship between SCV and snapCenter? Looks not to me, but NetApp document is not make it clear. thanks, ... View more

Looks we have both ISO and tar files available for SCV upgrade. can SCV be upgraded by installing tar file instead of rebooting with ISO file? i didn't see the details. can someone share your experience? thank you in advance ! ... View more

ActiveIQ Unified Manager documentation says the following about the local account used for discovery:   ------------------------------------ This account must have the admin role with Application access set to ontapi, ssh, and http. ------------------------------------   My question: is this really accurate? I don't see why it requires the admin role since AIUM is just reading data to populate charts and tables. Anyone have insight here? We are trying to reduce service accounts to the least amount of permissions needed and I'm thinking this is a good candidate for reduction, but documentation says otherwise. ... View more

I need to clarify whether ONTAP can dedup and compress data blocks locked by snapshot.  Does below command vol efficiency start -volume vol1 -vserver vs1 -scan-all -shared-blocks -snapshot-blocks dedup and compress data blocks locked by snapshot ? if not, does it mean snapshot blocks can not be deduplicated or compressed ?   Regards, Chun Chiang ... View more

Just replaced a drive, but one of our aggregates is still showing failed disks. How can we get the status back to normal? We have plenty of spares.     RAID Group /aggr2_sas_clp_lcl_fas8020b/plex0/rg1 (double degraded, block checksums, raid_dp) Usable Physical Position Disk Pool Type RPM Size Size Status -------- --------------------------- ---- ----- ------ -------- -------- ---------- dparity 3.33.7 0 SAS 15000 546.9GB 547.7GB (normal) parity 3.32.8 0 SAS 15000 546.9GB 547.1GB (normal) data 3.33.8 0 SAS 15000 546.9GB 547.7GB (normal) data 3.32.9 0 SAS 15000 546.9GB 547.1GB (normal) data 3.33.9 0 SAS 15000 546.9GB 547.7GB (normal) data FAILED - - - 546.9GB - (failed) data 3.33.10 0 SAS 15000 546.9GB 547.7GB (normal) data 3.32.11 0 SAS 15000 546.9GB 547.1GB (normal) data 3.33.11 0 SAS 15000 546.9GB 547.7GB (normal) data FAILED - - - 546.9GB - (failed) data 3.33.12 0 SAS 15000 546.9GB 547.7GB (normal) data 3.32.13 0 SAS 15000 546.9GB 547.1GB (normal) data 3.33.13 0 SAS 15000 546.9GB 547.7GB (normal) data 3.32.14 0 SAS 15000 546.9GB 547.1GB (normal) data 3.33.14 0 SAS 15000 546.9GB 547.7GB (normal)     Pool0 Spare Pool Usable Physical Disk Type Class RPM Checksum Size Size Status ---------------- ------ ----------- ------ -------------- -------- -------- -------- 2.22.17 SAS performance 10000 block 836.9GB 838.4GB zeroed 2.22.19 SAS performance 10000 block 836.9GB 838.4GB zeroed 2.23.9 SAS performance 10000 block 836.9GB 838.4GB zeroed 3.30.22 SAS performance 15000 block 546.9GB 547.1GB zeroed 3.31.2 SAS performance 15000 block 546.9GB 547.7GB zeroed 3.32.12 SAS performance 15000 block 546.9GB 547.7GB zeroed Original Owner: clp-lcl-fas8020b Pool0 Spare Pool Usable Physical Disk Type Class RPM Checksum Size Size Status ---------------- ------ ----------- ------ -------------- -------- -------- -------- 2.20.18 SAS performance 10000 block 836.9GB 838.4GB zeroed 2.20.23 SAS performance 10000 block 836.9GB 838.4GB zeroed 2.21.17 SAS performance 10000 block 836.9GB 838.4GB zeroed 3.32.5 SAS performance 15000 block 546.9GB 547.1GB zeroed 3.32.7 SAS performance 15000 block 546.9GB 547.1GB zeroed 3.32.10 SAS performance 15000 block 546.9GB 547.7GB zeroed 3.33.23 SAS performance 15000 block 546.9GB 547.7GB zeroed 1.10.9 SSD solid-state - block 186.1GB 186.3GB zeroed 14 entries were displayed.   ... View more