Running a FAS250 SAN connected to a VMWare enviornment. My volumes are thick provisioned and are showing 0 bytes of available space. I am not using snapshots however dedupe is enabled on the volumes. To try and see if i can reclaim space, i was going to uncheck background deduplication on each volume. Any thoughts surrounding this? If I uncheck this will it impact the volumes in a negative way?   These are all in production and cant afford to make any mistakes. ... View more

Issue Overview: We recently deployed a NetApp AFF C800 system with two network cards installed in slots 3 and 5. For connectivity, we are using the NetApp X66211B-5-C 5m QSFP28 Direct Attach Copper (DAC) Cable. However, when connecting this cable to a Cisco Catalyst 9500-32C (Q32) switch, we receive the error: 🚨 "Cable unsupported" 🚨 Questions & Challenges: How can we resolve this compatibility issue? Is there a site or tool to compare compatibility between NetApp and Cisco switches? How can we verify if the NetApp X66211B-5-C cable is compatible with the Cisco 9500 Q32 or other Cisco switches? note: Cisco 9500 switch is running the latest firmware         ... View more

Hello, I have 2 FAS2554 systems which is end of life, actually upgraded to ONTAP 9.7P8.   Does they support the latest versions of ONTAP? Will I be able to upgrade?   Thank you very much!   Bye ... View more

Hi Experts, We are getting CPU usage high to 90% on our filers (nfs protocol), don't know the reason why can anybody help me to reduce CPU hign usaged..    Thanks   Francis ... View more