Are there any plans to provide a way to combine the constituents of a flexgroup into a flexvol? At this time I am told you have to actually copy the data and this would require the source volume to be read only during the transfer and that is not practical. Or use an external tool.
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Hi, I explain my case: We have to migrate a SQL cluster environment to new servers and new netapp (previous storage also netapp). We have made SnapMirror for Mon RDM (4 Mon). We see that you have copied everything exactly the same, but what changes is the serial number of the lun and the ID. Steps: We stop CLuster SQL. We turn off the 2 VMs. We disconnect the RDM disks from the 2 VMs. We update and break snapmirror. We present the new LUNs to the new servers. We migrate the machines to the new servers and storage. We edit the configuration and add the RDM disks exactly the same (only to the first VM). We turn on the VM and find that the cluster does not start. In the disk manager the disks appear in "offline" mode and it does not allow us to put it online, because it says that the failover cluster is managing it. In the failover cluster the disks appear disconnected and if we connect them there is an error. Any ideas? Should the LUN ID be the same as the source ID? thanks,
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Running NetApp AFF C250 with SSD drives as a backup target. Volume is connected to Windows 2022 server via iSCSI. NetApp Release 9.14.1P1 I have deleted around 10TB from that volume, using Windows Explorer. System Manager and CLI still show that volume has 8TB of data and dedup+compression metadata. When it will be deleted and how can I avoid it in the future? Thanks a lot, in advance!
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Hello, I am testing the MAV (Multi-Admin Verify) feature. I just stumbled across the limitation that it doesn't work with SnapCenter yet, so that leaves our CIFS Servers. I set up a rule with the following parameters: Operation "volume snapshot delete" Query "-vserver <vserver>" (where "<vserver>" is the CIFS Server) However, my test SnapCenter job, which runs against volumes in a different SVM, still kicks off multiple MAV requests when it tries to auto-delete older snapshots outside of the retention period. Did I miss something in the syntax? Any advice?
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Hi, a few days ago i made a volume clon from a snapshot to restore a virtual machine. After i finished the restore, i wasn't able to delete the volume, because the volume which i cloned got the same snapshot settings as the source volume. And the source has tamperproof snapthots enabled. I had luck, the retention for the hourly snapshots is one day, so i disabled the scheduled snapshots and wait one day to delete the volume. My question to think about: Is it useful to enable tamperproof snapshots on a volume clone per default when on the source enabed? Kind regards Stefan
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