We have decommissioned all of our NetApp H610s-4 nodes since they are coming up eol for support. We wanted to use them in a test/dev environment as ESXi hosts with vSan. Sadly, after removing these and the MNodes we discovered we cannot use the drives in these systems. They appear to be locked. I tried several ways to try unlocking the drives with nvme-cli and other similar tools but I have not come across a way to unlock them. Our maintenance support has lapsed so I cannot download the Element Software to try RTFI and I cannot log into Ember directly since the MNode is offline. Are there any known methods or nvme-cli commands that work to unlock these drives? Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.
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Hello folks, we hit the known issue in regards to login the system after the power outage . https://kb.netapp.com/on-prem/solidfire/Element_OS_Kbs/Login_errors_using_admin_credentials__Cluster_UI_and_mNode_UI The system is not supported for a while 🙂 not in production but still used in LAB env. as backend storage. I would love to see a solution. Would it be possible to let me know how to get rid of this ? Many thanks. Lukas
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Folks looking to repurpose their NetApp HCI rigs or perhaps use PVE with SolidFire... The first screenshot shows a SolidFire volumes-related menu. The second is Proxmox-related (like "datastores" in another product) and the third illustrates the purpose of the entire thing, which (IMO) is to avoid the mess of inconsistency. The thing is pretty fast (no Java or other bloat) and while I wouldn't call it "enterprise-ready" it should be good for sandbox and lab enviros. And if it's not, the source is at the link (see the first screenshot) so you can make it better if you want.
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Hi all, I'm in a very similar situation to @itgod_cluelessdog with his question "Reuse hardware of NetApp H410C - unable to boot" https://community.netapp.com/t5/SolidFire-and-HCI/Reuse-hardware-of-NetApp-H410C-unable-to-boot/m-p/456936 I'd like to repurpose my 4 H410S nodes, they contain quality CPUs, quite a handful of RAM and 6 SSDs each. A VMware vSAN playground should be achievable. However, the nodes are equipped with BIOS NA2.1 dating back to 2017, and booting a USB Key in UEFI boot mode does not seem to be supported. I tried to find newer HCI Storage Node firmware at mysupport, but failed. HCI Compute Node firmware is available, though. Could you point me to the newest firmware for NetApp HCI H410S nodes? That would be awesome. Thanks, Raoul.
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Hello folks, I tried to install Linux (openSUSE Leap 15.6 / ubuntu 24.04 LTS) on our NetApp H410C via the IPMI. I tried to boot from the virtual CDROM and from an USB key. I tried using UEFI and also legacy boot mode. Nothing worked, I was unable to boot. Has anyone an idea what could be wrong? BIOS version configured virtual CD-ROM BIOS boot settings boot menu failed to boot (AD)
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