Ilgiz - You are very welcome, and my thanks go out to you for posing the question. Maybe I will make a blog posting in the near future on the subject of time, which can be very interesting and important. NTP and time is one of the subjects that has fascinated me over the years - so many things depend on it. I did some of the early work on time differentials and precision GPS in the 1980's. It's a subject I spend some 'time' on when teaching class. ( Configure your infrastructure to use GMT for court ? ) I hope this response has been helpful to others on the forum. ! At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff ekashp@kashpureff.org Fastlane NetApp Instructor and Independent Consultant http://www.fastlaneus.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff (P.S. I thank you for the points for a correct answer ! ) (P.P.S. TTL records on DNS matter ! )
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Richard - Can you give some kind of input to my interpretation of the concept of integration to OnCommand ? I made a very empassioned presentation to my class today about the integration of the products with regard to RBAC, relations to data sets and replication, SnapManagers, and Protection Mgr/Ops Mgr. Am I off base here, or is this the root of the vision for OnCommand ? I hope this response has been helpful to us all as a community... At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff ekashp@kashpureff.org Fastlane NetApp Instructor and Independent Consultant http://www.fastlaneus.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.)
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This post was made by a student of mine, in class. If it means 'seconds', then why does it trip in and out again ? I haven't looked into the xml files for presets yet, but ... My best guess was that it was 'system' buffers swapped out of cache ... ? Do we have a pro from Dover here who can tell us why it is on some lines, but not others ? We figured out why there is a jump - it's in the age of cache pages retired. (As documented in the System Administration Guide) We could not find this in the docs, though we all tried hard as a team effort in class today ... I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff ekashp@kashpureff.org Fastlane NetApp Instructor and Independent Consultant http://www.fastlaneus.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff (P.S. I'm sure this student will give points for helpful or correct answers.)
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Ilgiz - You are very welcome, sir ! I'm trying hard here... It's very interesting to me. No error messgs on the other filer ? Hrrrm... Have you opened a support case on this yet ? How long ago did this start, or is it a new installation ? Is performance affected here, or is everything else working OK ? It is commendable that you are watching the logs to see this. What can we do to resolve this problem ? I'm willing to keep trying - while you are. I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff ekashp@kashpureff.org Fastlane NetApp Instructor and Independent Consultant http://www.fastlaneus.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.)
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It doesn't look that loaded down to me - just the normal noises in here. I'd leave the options open - it may nat have been the filer that caused the crash. Performance is an end to end thing with complex environs in this day and age. How about some 'sysstat -x 1' output ? I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff ekashp@kashpureff.org Fastlane NetApp Instructor and Independent Consultant http://www.fastlaneus.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.)
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I hadn't caught this bug yet - a student brought it up in class today. mbralign used to be available in the NOW toolchest as a seperate download, but they refer to the ESX HUK or VSC download pages now. It shouldn't have any dependencies on other tools so you should be good to go with extract and replace. I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff Fastlane NetApp Instructor and Independent Consultant (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.)
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Yes, you should be able to dedupe your volumes when they're small enough. You'll be going volume by volume: Snapshot the parent volume. Clone a volume off from the snapshot. Re-mount the section of the cloned volume you want. ( You may want to create a qtree and still move data into a qtree on the volume. ) Delete the directories you don't want. 'vol clone split' that clone off the parent. Delete the section you've cloned off and split from the parent. Delete the snapshot you cloned from. Run sis on the cloned volume. Shrink the parent volume. Repeat for each directory you want to split off... Run sis on the parent when it's small enough. For extra measure run 'reallocate measure' on your volumes and reallocate as needed. Thank you for the points ! I hope this response has also been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff Fastlane NetApp Instructor and Independent Consultant
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Clones would be a cool solution also. You'd want to split the clones AFTER deleting files. You'd need to mount the new volumes directly after cloning, to avoid the need to resync any changes to data... I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff Fastlane NetApp Instructor and Independent Consultant (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.)
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Derek - There's a difference between share level permissions and permissions on the files/folders in the shares. Only share level permissions are managed on the NetApp. Windows is used to manage the files and folders. Share level permissions are managed by clicking on the share permissions tab, rather than the security tab. Share permissions can also be managed on the CLI with 'cifs access', or through FilerView or using System Manager. I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff Fastlane NetApp Instructor and Independent Consultant (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.)
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Florent - Your very welcome ! At your service, Eugene Kashpureff NetAppU Instructor and Independent Consultant (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.)
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I had found it a while ago from another post on here: Try this receipe: The current System ID is 987654-32-0. Say you want to change this to 987654-32-1. First halt the VSIM and enter into the bootloader prompt. Set the new serial ID there as shown. SIMLOADER> set SYS_SERIAL_NUM="987654-32-1" SIMLOADER> boot On booting if the system complains that it can't find it's disks then that's because software disk ownership is doing the right thing and keeping the disks allocated to the older system (old serial number). If so, ctrl-c into maintenance mode and re-assign the disks to the new ID. I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene Kashpureff NetAppU Instructor and Independent Consultant (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.)
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Brendon - I don't think the Tivoli solution had the dedupe integration that the NBU solution has, so probably didn't come close to the space savings. I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene Kashpureff NetAppU Instructor and Independent Consultant (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.)
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Petter - Unfortunately, I can not post the training materials. That would be strictly forbidden by NetApp U. But ... As a reseller, you can probably get access to them. I know you can get into class using partner training credits. The material is covered in our advanced NPSA - NetApp Protection Software Administration class. You can find the next scheduled class by visiting http://www.fastlaneus.com/ . Here's a link to a NBU/SV pdf file though: http://eval.symantec.com/mktginfo/products/Datasheets/Data_Protection/nbu_6_netapp_disk_dp_overview_dsht.pdf You might also want to check out TR3396 - Unleashing the Potential of Disk-Based Data with Symantec and Network Appliance http://media.netapp.com/documents/tr-3396.pdf I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene Kashpureff NetAppU Instructor and Independent Consultant (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.)
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Maybe a helpful answer ? '[kern.time.rpc.error:ALERT]: Unable to read updated Timekeeping options.' Doesn't show up in the 'syslog translator on the NOW site. ( https://now.netapp.com/eservice/ems ) This is a little dissapointing, I'll hope the EMS database folks can get some updates in there Real Soon Now. This isn't the first time lately that there's been a message I ran that didn't come up. I wish they'd also enter in error messages for various NetApp OnCommand software. Over the years it's been an excelltent tool to use. Reading the message it looks like it's an Network Time Protocol (NTP) RPC error. Check your timed options settings with 'options timed' and verify that your listed timeservers are available on the network. I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene Kashpureff NetAppU Instructor and Independent Consultant (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.)
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There is no technology that can compete with OSSV ! : ) There are plenty of solutions that can do incremental backups from heterogeneous clients, but not with the incrementals forever model and space savings that come with SnapVault. The closest thing to a competitor isn't a competitor - they're a partner. From the current NPSA class materials: SnapVault for NetBackup Overview: ¡Backs up heterogeneous clients ¡Creates backup images online for immediate access ¡Optimizes space utilization ¡Allows recovery of files using NFS and CIFS There's over twelve pages of Snapvault for NetBackup material in the SnapVault module for the class, including a tie in to dedupe. We teach SV NetBackup before we teach OSSV as the courseware is laid out. I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene Kashpureff NetAppU Instructor and Independent Consultant (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.)
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SnapLock wasn't supported in the 7.3.0 release either, but was with 7.3.1. My guess is that it's due to the need for certification of compliance, and that it will be coming Real Soon Now... I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene Kashpureff NetAppU Instructor and Independent Consultant (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.)
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I've been giving this one a bit of thought since you made your post. I'll hope the data is at least segmented by directories ? First, move the data in the volume from directories into qtrees. Create the qtrees Use 'mv' from an nfs host to move files into the qtrees. (Usually moving files within the same file system is not the same as copying and then removing the original. First a new link is added to the new directory then the original link is deleted. The data of file is not accessed. This is much faster than copy and remove. The file still has the same inode.) Change your exports and mounts for the data to the qtrees. (you might try using the acual= export option to avoid changing client mounts) Now that the data is in qtrees you can use qtree snapmirror to copy the partitioned data into new volumes with qtrees, and synchronize with snapmirror. Change your exports and mounts for the data to the new qtrees in new volumes. Delete the data in your source qtrees. 'vol size' to shrink your 'giant' volume back down in size. This is the best option I could think of to minimize downtime. I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene Kashpureff NetAppU Instructor and Independent Consultant (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.)
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There's an internal document for the upgrade process, but there's the following note in the 8.0 Cluster release notes: 'Customers upgrading from Data ONTAP GX 10.x must follow an assisted upgrade process. Contact your support representative before attempting to upgrade to Data ONTAP 8.0 Cluster-Mode' While moving from Data ONTAP GX to Data ONTAP 8.0 Cluster-Mode requires a reboot, all data can be maintained. Upgrade from 8.0 to 8.0.1 is covered in the Data ONTAP® 8.0.1 Cluster-Mode Upgrade Guide. I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene Kashpureff NetAppU Instructor and Independent Consultant (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.)
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3100 Data Sheet - http://media.netapp.com/documents/netapp-fas3100-series-datasheet.pdf 3200 Data Sheet - http://media.netapp.com/documents/ds-3095.pdf I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene Kashpureff NetAppU Instructor and Independent Consultant (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.)
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You create new 64 bit aggregates from available spare disk drives, then create new volumes and copy the data over. It seems to be an easy enopugh process for customers I've been working with, who are glad to have the increased cpacity. I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene Kashpureff NetAppU Instructor and Independent Consultant (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.)
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Look at the syslogs of filer1 v filer2. For test purposes, ping an IP on the failing over filer, measure the # of dropped packets. I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene Kashpureff NetAppU Instructor and Independent Consultant (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.)
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Chris - On the cover it looks like marketing, but there's more to it to me. To me it's all about the integration of the tools in the new versions. Using SnapMgr for Oracle as an example: We have integration with Ops Mgr to manage RBAC users for SMO. We have integration with Protection Mgr for SnapVault and Mirror relationships. I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene Kashpureff NetAppU Instructor and Independent Consultant (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.)
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Scott - I don't get to go do conferences anymore - I have to go teach class in Texas for the Army next week ... : ) At your service, Eugene Kashpureff
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Currently teaching ANCDA8-7 mode in Santa Clara, so we'll answer with the class ! 64 bit aggrs/volumes ! - up to 100TB Aggrs on larger filers., Secure configuration defaults. Cluster mode - (GX mode) vif command is now ifgrp And much more ! Is it cheating to list the release notes ? We're having fun reading through them ! http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/ontap/rel801rc2/html/ontap/rnote/frameset.html I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene Kashpureff NetAppU Instructor and Independent Consultant (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.)
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Natrian - There wouldn't be any logging by default, though you can turn on cifs auditing to logs of users opening shares. If there were active sessions you could list users and open directories and files with: cifs sessions * If you include the user argument, the command displays information about the specified user, along with the names and access level of files that user has opened. If you use * as the specified user, the command lists all users. Executing the command for user sam might produce output as follows: cifs sessions sam users shares/files opened 172.18.34.11(HAWLEY-HOME1) (sam) ENG-USERS Read-denyW - \SAM\SRC\TEST\test_pgm.c 132.170.108.1(HAWLEY-PC) (sam) ENG-USERS The output would be very verbose. Disturbing that cifs sessions is giving you no output ... I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene Kashpureff NetAppU Instructor and Independent Consultant (P.S. I appreciate points for helpful or correct answers.)
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