What is the definition of flexpod? Is it specific netapp storage to be certified a a flexpod config? I am running Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blades connected to Cisco Nexus 7k switches and the storage is Netapp 8020 head. Its connected to brocade FC switch VA-40FC Is this considered a flexpod?
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hi I have an igroup that consit of 3 servers but I am adding 4 new servers but each of them have there own igroup due to the fact that they are boot from san. each lun I have currently have the igroup pf the old servers. I want to add these new igroups of these new servers to the existing luns and I only know how to go uder each lun/initiator and add the igroup from there
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I have about 100 luns that I need to add 4 new initiators to. is there a way to script this from command line rather than doing it lun by lun?
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all hbas and netapp controllers are plugged into same brocade switch. what is the benefit of doing one to one hba to single intiator vs multiple to single initiator?
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I got one brocade fc switch that both netapp contollers are connected to its one fabric switch and 4 ports from the netapp is connected to 4 fc ports. when I create vol/lun on controller A, the server cannot see the boot lun but when i create vol/lun on controllerB the sever can see it any idea? On the FC switch, I verified both the initiators are zoned in correctly and also on the san any idea?
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I need to migrate my dfm vm from one location to another Datacenter . Will need to assign it another address. How do I re ip it after its been moved? Or should i re-ip it first before shutting down?
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I got an error from dfm saying General Information ------------------- DataFabric Manager Serial Number: 1-50-111062 Alarm Identifier: 1 Event Fields ------------- Event Identifier: 36578 Event Name: Disks: Some Failed Event Description: Status of disk failures on an appliance Event Severity: Error Event Timestamp: 01 Aug 21:14 Source of Event --------------- Source Identifier: 74 Source Name: Source Type: Active/Active Controller Source Status: Error Event Arguments --------------- diskMessage: Disk on adapter 2c, shelf 1, bay 1, failed. how do i find out from the oncommand or command prompt that it did fail? what can i do?
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How do I find out what is the total iops my storage system is providing? Is it per aggregate based or volume or lun based? how do I find these stats?
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when i run vol status -S it does not show as available. I only get these options vol status: Unrecognized option - usage: vol status [<vol-name>] [-d | -r | -v[C] | -l | -c | -C[v] | -b | -s | -f | -m | -w | -?] - print the status of volume <vol-name> (or all volumes) (Only -v, -l, -b, and -? are available in a vfiler context)
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When i try to create a new aggregate, I got the error you do you have sufficient spare disk to create raid dp aggregate. But when i go to disks, I see a lot of disk not assigned to any aggregate. any idea?
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is there a document on how to do sql 2012 2 site clustering with netapp snapmiror? I have sql on one site and I like to cluster it across 2 sites. I have netapp on both sites.
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The netapp controllerinitiators are all zoned in on the fc switch. The host is also zoned in. however I can only see luns on one netapp and not the other netapp.
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I initially created and mounted a 500gb lun into esxi. then I resized the lun in system manager to 800gb. then I unmounted the lun in vmware and deleted it Then rescanned all adapters and tried to readd the lun but vmware does not see the 800gb. it still see the lun as a 500g lun. any ideas?
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I am missing the luns config under oncommand system manager. The filers were recently upgraded to 8.1. however the 8.0 filers still shows luns in oncommand system manager any idea?
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