Talk and ask questions about NetApp FAS and AFF series unified storage systems. Talk with other members how to optimize these powerful data storage systems.
Talk and ask questions about NetApp FAS and AFF series unified storage systems. Talk with other members how to optimize these powerful data storage systems.
Hello, New to netapp! 🙂 I have managed to get myself a FAS2552 but it gives a boot error: This platform is not supported in this release. I tried several Ontap versions (netboot) but it's al the same error. Already ordered a new Micron eusb disk (usb 2.0) just i case, but i also see the Bios/BSD Bootloader are very old. Can someone point me out where i can find the firmware update files, because it not on support.netapp.com. I guess because it "End of Life", or can someone maybe send me the files? Thanks in advance.
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Hi, I have a FAS2750 with DS2246 shelves. We had a disk fail the other day and i`ve purchased some 2nd hand disks from a reputable reseller. I`ve contacted NetApps but they no longer stock the disks for this system. When i plug the disks in i get a bad label message and the disk doesn`t show as a spare. If i run these commands will it solve this issue? set -privilege advanced storage disk unfail -s 1.1.7 storage aggr status -s storage disk zerospares -owner node-1-cluster-1-gb-cam-1 I`ve never done this before so don`t want to wipe the rest of the disks. Many thanks
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So we have a 1 *FAS2750 with 20 *1.8TB(X343) 2 *DS212C with 10 *8TB(X318) each After using 6 *1.8TB disks for root aggregate, can I put all remaining drives in the same aggregate? PN Capacity RPM Class Type X343A-R6 1.8TB 10000 performance SAS X318A-R6 8TB 7200 capacity FSAS I tried with -allow-mixed-rpm, it won't work, show errors: "Error: command failed: Addition of disks would fail for aggregate "aggr1_02" on node "cluster1-02". Reason: Disk type does not match type of disks in the aggregate."; I found this KB:"How to add larger capacity disks to a RAID group that contains smaller capacity disks - NetApp Knowledge Base", and tried the "Scenario 4: A new RAID group is created in the aggregate to ensure that similar size drives remain in the same RAID group", and got errors too:"aggr add: There are not enough spare disks with matching disk type. 20 disks needed from Pool0, but no matching disks of the requested size are available in that pool."; also tried "storage raid-options modify -name raid.mix.hdd.rpm.performance -node * -value off" still won't work. So is mix FSAS and SAS disks in one aggregate possible?
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We have an FAS 8200 HA Multi-Path system. It is connected to four disk shelves (two DS212 and two DS460c) via 12Gb SAS. It has four 10Gb connections to our data network(two LACP pairs). I'm trying to get an idea of the baseline write speed from a single Windows or Linux user to a single volume that is shared via CIFs or NFS. Currently, the max write speeds I have been able to achieve are around 3Gbps, while max read speed values have been as high as 6.5 -7 Gbps. I just want to make sure I'm not expecting the system to do something it isn't capable of, so does anyone know: is it possible to achieve at or near 10Gbps write speed to such a system over a CIFs or NFS network share?
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Hi, We have two FAS 2720 with FlashPool in production configured as follows: FAS 2720: 4SSD 960GB + 10HDD 4TB 3 x DS212C 12HDD 4TB We need to increase the available space and I have to decide whether to purchase: FAS 2820 with the same disk configuration FAS 2820 with the same disk configuration but 4 x DS212C 12HDD 4TB FAS 2820 with 4SSD + 10HDD 10TB and 4 x DS212C 12HDD 10TB We use these FAS via NFSv3 to store our customers' emails (Maildir format, so many small files accessed little but with metadata read very frequently). With the current configuration, just one of these FAS easily reaches over 22,000 IOPS (data taken from the System Manager Dashboard). The doubt is: if I buy the configuration with 10TB disks and an additional drawer (which costs double compared to the current configuration) will I be able to at least double the IOPS and the occupied space to recover the investment? if I buy the configuration with 4 Disk Shelves will I have more space but will I not risk having too many disks (58 4TB HDDs) in a RAID Group with RAID-DP? With our NetApp sales representative we tried to do some simulations from Fusion of how many IOPS I could reach but according to Fusion the current configuration could not already do the IOPS that it is actually doing. Can you give me some advice? I would like to send the order soon. Thanks
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