Mohan - 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

Adnan - You need to have a valid NetApp Support account. Log on to mysupport.netapp.com Go to Downloads > Product Evaluation http://mysupport.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/simulator 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

Sergi - Do you have support on this filer, or is it a used unit from Ebay ? If you have support you can get all kinds of documentation on mysupport.netapp.com. If not - see the Ctrl-C boot menu and use option 4a to wipe the filer clean, or ... Let it boot, and do 'setup' from the boot prompt ... Wishing you the best of luck ! 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

Karthick - Not if you've got HA set up correctly. You can do a non disruptive upgrade. See the 'Upgrade Adviser' feature of MyASUP on the mysupport.netapp.com site. 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

Melendez - We'd love to see you in a NetApp Instructor Led Training Class to give you some knowledge ! As Brendon mentioned, if you have a valid support account at mysupport.netapp.com, there's lots of support available. This support includes access to the documentation, including the Upgrade Guides, and the MyAsup upgrade advisor tool. (We teach this stuff in class.) There's also access to many Web Based Training (WBT) courses you can take. These are currently no-charge for valid support account customers. 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

Karthick - You're very welcome. Thank you for taking the time to mark the question as 'answered' ! (often community members don't take the time.) It's a pleasure to help out when I can. 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

Parity Error - Try using the localhost, 127.0.0.1, instead ? 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

Mohan - A quick search for 'SMI' on support.netapp.com yields 50 responses, including: Best Practices and Prescriptive Guidance for NetApp SMI-S Agent SMI-S Provider Installation Guide For Version 10.15 Data ONTAP® SMI-S Agent 5.1 Installation and Configuration Guide Data ONTAP® SMI-S Agent 5.1 Information Roadmap A search for TRs at www.netapp.com/library came up with 16 interesting papers. Enjoy ! 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

SKUNJACHAN - It's been years since I've laid hands on a VTL, but ... Can you stop the boot process and get at a boot menu ? Feel free to drop me an email. (ekashp@khresear.ch) I could get on a WebEx with you in a few hours from now ... 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

Jason - I was suggesting you try using advanced priv to run the command. I'm teaching Cluster Mode Performance in Brisbane, Australia this week. We used this as an exercise in class today. It does work in advanced priv: cluster1::>set -privilege advanced cluster1::*>network ping -lif-owner vs2 -lif vs2_cifs_nfs_lif1 -destination 192.168.0.10 -disallow-fragmentation true -packet-size 9000 no answer from 192.168.0.10 cluster1::*>set -privilege admin cluster1::> 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

Jason - Still haven't fired off the lab environ yet, but did you try advanced priv ? (like with the -flood option) Historically, NetApp tries to avoid letting you do abusive things to the network. This might be one of those cases. I'm very interested to work this one out, given that it's one of those tidbits that I can add to lecture in classes ! 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

The iter-start APIs calls aren't there any more, just file-list-directory-iter. See the element next-tag. I use the  ZExplore utility to find clues on these 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

Jason - How very interesting, given that 'cluster ping-cluster' uses 1500, 4500, and 9000 sized frames to test the cluster network. Also, given that 'network ping' has the '-packet-size' option to it. This is one I might have to try out in my lab environ ... 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

Dave - I'll plug my vote in for using Windows MPIO with the Windows DSM ... 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 - Have you tried using the Zexplore tool ? I did a drag and drop of volume-get-iter with the language set to Python. It is a lot of lines of code that resulted - 563. A lot of them are for setting all of the optional attribute elements, and could be deleted. But it only took about 10 seconds to drag and drop and get the code ... - Eugene ... View more

Terri - I'm not sure my post qualifies as seeing me ? I'll look forward to the day we can share a lunch again. All is very well here in Hong Kong. Though I may be missed in Vegas, I'll still be teaching NetApp, but in a classroom. I'm currently very excited about rolling out my new API programming classes... 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

Martin - You're very welcome. Yes, fpolicy-server-status-get-iter is a cluster mode API call. Glad you got Zexplore out of it. It's a very powerful tool. Enjoy ! 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

Martin - Looking through the API in ZExplore... API: fpolicy-server-status-get-iter     Element: desired-attributes         Element: fpolicy-server-status-info             Element: connected-since 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

Terri - I'd love to go, but it doesn't look like it's in the plan this year. Last year I enjoyed giving my presentation on 'Cluster Mode Performance Management with OnCommand Unified Manager' in Vegas. Wish we were still doing Insight in Macau. It would be an easy commute for me from here in Hong Kong ! Miss you ... 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

William - From the syslog translator tool on the NetApp support site: Description This event is issued when the appliance can not issue a network lock manager (NLM) callback to the client via UDP. The specified version of NLM is not registered with the client's portmapper daemon.  Corrective Action Make sure the specified version of the network lock manager is registered with the client's portmapper daemon. Please refer to the client's documentation for details on how to manage the NLM on the client. See also: http://support.netapp.com/portal?_nfpb=true&initialPage=true&_pageLabel=syslogtranslator I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff Independent NetApp Consultant, K&H Research http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, Unitek Education http://www.unitek.com/training/netapp/ (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.) ... View more

Shailesh - There's probably some entries in /etc/exports that you need to clean up too ... I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff Independent NetApp Consultant, K&H Research http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, Unitek Education http://www.unitek.com/training/netapp/ (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.) ... View more

Olivier - Take a close look at your exports in /etc/exports and get these mounts working. I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff Independent NetApp Consultant, K&H Research http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, Unitek Education http://www.unitek.com/training/netapp/ (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.) ... View more