Hi when i want to add a new constituent of a flexgroup this constituent didn't take the same size of othe constituent.    cns_svm_ng BigRawdataCNS__0001 11.87TB cns_svm_ng BigRawdataCNS__0002 11.94TB cns_svm_ng BigRawdataCNS__0003 11.82TB cns_svm_ng BigRawdataCNS__0004 11.91TB cns_svm_ng BigRawdataCNS__0005 11.80TB cns_svm_ng BigRawdataCNS__0006 9.54TB cns_svm_ng BigRawdataCNS__0007 8.97TB cns_svm_ng BigRawdataCNS__0008 8.15TB cns_svm_ng BigRawdataCNS__0009 8.19TB 9 entries were displayed.   THat s a bit annoying as the size is decreasing.  how can i prevent this size to decrease when i m adding new constituent  ... View more

Hello All,    New netapp 4 node cluster has been setup and all the port are showing as "UP" while I issue "net port show" command. But "ifgrp show" command show "Partial" for some wierd reason.    We are running Ontap 9.3.P1 version. Can someone help me to fix this ?   Thank you ... View more

Hi there.   I would like to install NetApp NAS VAAI Plugin 2.0.1 via Lifecycle Manager on VMWARE 8.0 Update 3, but I have some problems. I found some material saying that in version 7.0 it might not be compatible, but in version 8.0 it is compatible and there is even documentation explaining it.  https://kb.netapp.com/on-prem/ontap/DM/VAAI/VAAI-KBs/How_to_add_the_NetApp_NFS_Plug-in_VAAI_to_Vmware_Lifecycle_Manager_images   I tried to do following this documentation, but I have this error:        Does anyone have any idea what it could be?     ... View more

Hi guys. I had a funny issue a few days ago. We have the following:   Volume with a single LUN in it both space guaranteed 2 snapshots in the volume 2 flexclones hanging off those snaps fractional reserve set to 0 auto-grow disabled Now, what happened was that the volume went to 100% but the LUN remained online. The OS saw that the disk had plenty of space on it and was trying to copy some large files onto it. The entire OS went into a hang because it couldn't commit the writes to the Storage. I would have assumed that the LUN would be brought offline in such a circumstances no? ... View more

I have a question, This KB mentions: The default disk block size for WAFL is 4k, which is equal to LUN's physical block size But when I use lun show-fields block-size, I get a different result. Am I wrong? KB： Which command is used to display the physical block size of LUN? - NetApp Knowledge Base     ... View more