NetAppPHBG - Do you have a Snapshot from before the robocopy job ? SnapRestore the volume to that snapshot. See the man page for the 'snap list' and 'snap restore' commands (for 7-Mode)... I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant, K&H Research http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.) ... View more

Sarek - Are the SATA drives on adapter 0b ? It looks like they're associated. You can also use the 'Syslog Translator' tool on the support site to give you more info about err messages. Interestingly, the 'ses.inconsistent.config' message didn't come up with any results when I ran it on the tool. Was that the full identifier for the message ? What version of Data ONTAP was this ? I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant, K&H Research http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.) ... View more

CloudDigger - There's a lot of Data ONTAP Cluster Mode training available for customers and partners. NetApp has some of the best Web Based Trainings (WBTs) in the industry available. Login to http://learningcenter.netapp.com/ I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant, K&H Research http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.) ... View more

Henry - Thank you, very much. No need for any salutes, I just try to do my best to do my duty. Apologies for a slow reply - it's midnight here in Hong Kong. I think I need to go to bed ! VSAs would be used to back up the host VM for the database. The database aware iDataAgent should be installed on the VM itself to coordinate the back up of the DB files. You say 'SQL Database', but not which one. There's an iDataAgent for MSSQL, there's another for Oracle DBs. I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant, K&H Research http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.) ... View more

NetAppMagic - You're very welcome. Yes, IO density is about disks. NetApp controllers are all about the disks they're driving. It's easy to spin up a stack of disk shelves, it's another thing to be able to drive them with a lot of IO. All of the factors I mentioned are of concern when sizing a solution for a given set of workloads. They're all questions your sales team should be asking you, or you should be asking the customer if you're the sales engineer. Your original question was whether there were tools available. I had mentioned the Sizer tool that is available on the Field Portal for this use. I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant, K&H Research http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.) ... View more

Jaime - Yes, there is a use case. VMs should be quiesced before the snapshot is taken. There are SnapProtect Virtual Storage Agents (VSAs) for Hyper-V and VMware . Though I don't find KVM support documented in SnapProtect, you may wish to look at the following link on Simpana with KVMs: http://documentation.commvault.com/hds/v10/article?p=prod_info/unix_virtualization/right_kvm.htm ( SnapProtect is Commvault Simpana with NetApp specific supported mods. ) I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant, K&H Research http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.) ... View more

Jaime - You can back up NetApp NFS volumes with SnapProtect. There is the NetApp NAS iDataAgent. Unlike other agents, which get installed on the host, the NAS iDataAgent is installed on the CommServe, not on the filer. There isn't any integration to set up the SnapProtect policies through OpenStack yet that I know of. I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant, K&H Research http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.) ... View more

Jolkowski - I'm surprised that an instructor would not thouroughly cover instruction on the use of Data ONTAP simulators ! I make sure to teach students how to set up their own lab environs every time I teach class. Yes, you can download your own sims. Here's the download page: http://mysupport.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/simulator There are many articles here on Communities on installing and setting up the simulators. I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant, K&H Research http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.) ... View more

NetAppMagic - Yes, there are tools we use to size solutions for customers. The Sizer tool is available for partners on the Field Portal. Capacity is not an easy part. IO density is the big question on the back end. This is a factor of IOs/TB. Reads v writes, and randomness of the IO also factor in. Rate of change and retention are another factor to be considered. 'What is the DR strategy?' is another question to be asked. Networking on the front end needs to take fail over into consideration. DR replication also needs to be considered for network. CPU to drive the disks and the network is the last question I usually take into account. It's not an easy question to answer. We teach advanced classes on 7-Mode and Cluster Mode performance that cover these topics. I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant, K&H Research http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.) ... View more

Blake - Yes, the simulators will do SnapMirror. Only consideration is the limited performance and capacity of the sims. I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant, K&H Research http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.) ... View more

JWalther - Yes, you need a valid support account to download it. I'd be happy to refer you to some recruiters with just your current NCIE. Send me an email ... I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant, K&H Research http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.) ... View more

Ben - A good study guide is to follow the links and advice in the thread above ... I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant, K&H Research http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.) ... View more

Lukas - With Unified Manager 5.X Performance and Protection/Provisioning were in the same application. There were many APIs to query for performance data in 5.X. Performance Manager for Cluster Mode is now a separate application, at version 1.0. I haven't yet seen any APIs to query it. The one method I've seen to pull data out of Perf Mgr 1.0 is to export CSV files. From the documentation: "You can export information about all data displayed on the page you are viewing to a comma-separated variable (CSV) file. You can then open the file in a text editor or spreadsheet application." See the documentation at https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMP1364220/html/frameset.html There is the OnCommand Unified Manager 6.1 API Developer Guide: https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMP1416663/html/frameset.html You can also look at the DFM 6.0 APIs listed in the ZExplore utility that comes with the Manageability SDK. Notice that the performance and other APIs listed for DFM 5.2 aren't there for 6.0. I hope this response has been helpful to you... At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant, K&H Research http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.) ... View more

rbauman - You're very welcome. Yes, It is SnapVault I'd recommend for your needs. The reson to use SnapVault over SnapMirror is that you can retain snapshots for a longer schedule on the secondary. With SnapMirror you copy the full volume with snapshots, and you'd have to retain all of those older snapshots on the primary. SnapVault would allow you to retain the old snaps on the secondary SATA drives without retaining them on the primary. You'd be able to free up the old snap space on those expensive 15K spindles. This is the value proposition of SnapVault. I'd use DFM aka now OnCommand Unified Manager to manage the snapshot relationships, rather than SMVI. BTW - SMVI is now VSC - Virtual Storage Console, you may want to upgrade ? Wish I could have you in class for a week to explain this all further... I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant, K&H Research http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.) ... View more

Doran - You're very welcome. I understand title mix up. Tried to answer to your first post. Yes, disk sanitize would require a license. If you're no longer under support, you may still be able to get out of it. There's two options: Convince the local NetApp sales rep you'll buy some new NetApp. They could get you a temp license key. You'd need to also convince your security guys that you're buying the support and license keys for the future. Option two is to go out and buy a disk shredder. Shredded disks tell no stories. These are real cool devices. They're like paper shredders, but they chop up disk drives. I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant, K&H Research http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.)      ... View more

Saanvi - Yes, - - - - - is a blank schedule. The the scheduled mirror updates are being triggered externally, by a backup application, me thinks. Look at your audit logs to determine where that's coming from ... I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant, K&H Research http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.) ... View more

rbauman - You'd want to SnapVault the volumes to the SATA drives for longer term snapshot retention. See the Data Protection Online Backup and Recovery Guide: https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMP1368826/html/frameset.html I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant, K&H Research http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.) ... View more

ARCOLINO - System Mgr isn't a simulator it's software. You can use it with NetApp sims, 7-Mode or Cluster Mode. I'd suggest you try Cluster Mode. http://mysupport.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/simulator You can do anything for an excercise that you could do with a real NetApp. You could try implementing solutions from the express guides for some excercises: http://mysupport.netapp.com/documentation/docweb/index.html?productID=61689 I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant, K&H Research http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.) ... View more

Doran - You titled the post with VNX, why ? Initializing disks won't wipe them. You'd want to do a 'disk sanitize' to wipe them clean ... I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant, K&H Research http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.) ... View more

Cfrank - This has been bothering me as well. I came across it while writing a new Cluster Mode API Programming class. It seems the only API we have now is clock-get-timezone. This is for the Cluster-Mode APIs as well as the Vserver APIs. In 7-Mode we still have: clock-get-clock clock-get-timezone clock-set-clock clock-get-timezone I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant, K&H Research http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.) ... View more

Midutcher - What NTP servers are you using for the OnCommand server ? I'm thinking it's the OnCommand server that's having time issues ... I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant, K&H Research http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.) ... View more

Macakigo1 - I haven't tried this in a lab, but I think you might be able to do it. Is multipath enabled on the host ? Create the vlan tagged interface on the second ifgrp. Enable jumbo frames on the new vlan tagged interface. Configure a new IP address on the new vlan interface. Look for the new initiator to target connection on the host and on the NetApp. Configure the old interface down. See also the San Administration Guide documentation: https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMP1196995/html/frameset.html I'd try to lab this out on simulators before trying it out in production ! Performance can be complicated, there may be other issues involved. We do teach offer a 3 day 7-mode performance class from NetApp U... I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant, K&H Research http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.) ... View more

Nayab - 7-Mode ? Can you copy the full err message ? Have you tried using the Syslog Translator on mysupport.netapp.com ? Did you set: options snapvault.enable options snapvault.access There's all of the documentation available in the Data Protection Guide: https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMP1366833/html/frameset.html I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant, K&H Research http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.) ... View more

Arsen - You're very welcome ! I'll continue to do my best to do my duty for NetApp Communities... At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant, K&H Research http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.) ... View more