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Submiller - Did you install the new 8.2 node locked license keys with that upgrade ? I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, Fast Lane US http://www.fastlaneus.com/ (P.S. I appreciate 'kudos' on any helpful posts.)
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AMS - No options settings for Cluster mode - you should be able to connect as 'admin' on the cluster mgt lif ... I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, Fast Lane US http://www.fastlaneus.com/ (P.S. I appreciate 'kudos' on any helpful posts.)
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Machinist - IMT - Interoperability Matrix Tool. I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate 'kudos' on any helpful posts.)
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Andre - You're very welcome. Yes you can get an eval before you buy - by contacting NetApp sales. See http://www.netapp.com/us/how-to-buy/index.aspx I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate 'kudos' on any helpful posts.)
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Andre - It's a free download for registered users with paid support. Guest level access on the support site is very limited. I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate 'kudos' on any helpful posts.)
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Jim - It's not that advanced. We don't go into any very complex SQL querries. (Although I do discuss when I teach the class.) It's mostly two days of lab excercises to to advanced formatting and graph creation. I highly recommend taking the OCI Operations and Best Practice class along with it. We usualy deliver both classes together over a week... I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate 'kudos' on any helpful posts.)
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Eduard - This event is emitted when we detect a medium error on a disk. See the 'Syslog Analyzer' tool on mysupport.netapp.com. (Under 'Tools'.) http://mysupport.netapp.com/eservice/ems I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate 'kudos' on any helpful posts.)
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Rodrigo - You're very welcome. Thank you very much for the kudo ! 🙂 I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp
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Sri - Not that I can find for 7-Mode, only for Cluster ... I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate 'kudos' on any helpful posts.)
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Rodrigo - No, the 8.X sims can't do HA. The older 7.X sims running on Linux can ... I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate 'kudos' on any helpful posts.)
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Nitish - Yes, this is a standard report for OCI. The only trick to it is making sure the business entities and relevant annotations for client systems are added in to OCI for the data warehouse to report on. I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate 'kudos' on any helpful posts.)
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Mathew - You can't shrink an aggregate or a RAID group once created. Going out to 24 disks is stretching the rules about sticking close to the default size of 16 disks. Best practice is to have at least two spare drives of each type. To be conservative, you could add another 20 disk RAID group to an existing aggr. Or create a new aggr with 22 disks in one RAID group, and have 3 spares. Or add a 22 disk RAID group to an existing aggr... I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate 'kudos' on any helpful posts.)
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Alex - You can grab the .msi installer file from the OnCommand Insight download page. http://mysupport.netapp.com/NOW/download/software/sanscreen/7.1.1/download.shtml There are three different downlaod links there - one for OCI, one for the DWH, and another for installing the RAU... I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate 'kudos' on any helpful posts.)
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Alex - It's covered in a section of the 'OnCommand Insight Installation Guide'. See: https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMP1708073/html/frameset.html I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate 'kudos' on any helpful posts.)
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VG - The aoutogrow would be in increments of 500G with a max of 1.2T. The increment and max can both be configured with the -i and -m parameters. Yes, the trigger threshold can be configured with the '[ -grow-threshold-percent <used space %> ] ' parameter. From the man page: ' vol autosize volname [ -m size [k|m|g|t] ] [ -i size [k|m|g|t] ] [ -minimum-size size [k|m|g|t] ] [ -grow-threshold-percent <used space %> ] [ -shrink-threshold-percent <used space %> ] [ grow(on) | grow_shrink |off | reset ] Volume autosize allows a flexible volume to automatically grow or shrink in size within an aggregate. Autogrow is useful when a volume is about to run out of available space, but there is space available in the containing aggregate for the volume to grow. Autoshrink is useful in combination with autogrow. It can return unused blocks to the aggregate when the amount of data in a volume drops below a user configurable shrink threshold. Autoshrink can be enabled via the grow_shrink subcommand. Autoshrink without autogrow is not supported. The autogrow feature works together with snap autodelete to automatically reclaim space when a volume is about to get full. The volume option try_first controls the order in which these two reclaim policies are used. By default autosize is disabled. The minimum autosize is set to the volume size, the maximum autosize is set to 120% of the volume size, and the autosize increment is set to the lesser value of either 1GB or 5% of the volume size at the time of command. The grow (or on) subcommand can be used to enable autogrow on a volume. The grow_shrink subcommand enables both autogrow and autoshrink. The reset subcommand resets the settings of volume autosize to defaults. The off subcommand can be used to disable autosize. The -m switch allows the user to specify the maximum size to which a flexible volume will be allowed to grow. When increasing the size of a volume, Data ONTAP uses the increment size specified with the -i switch as a guide; the actual size increase may be larger or smaller. You can specify the increment amount either as a fixed size (in bytes) or as a percentage. The percentage is converted to a fixed size that is based on the current volume size. If the value of the -m parameter is invalidated by a manual volume resize or is invalid when autosize is enabled, the maximum size is reset to 120% of the volume size, and the autosize increment is reset to the lesser value of either 1GB or 5% of the volume size. The -minimum-size switch allows you to specify the minimum size below which a flexible volume is not allowed to shrink. The default value is the size of the volume at the time grow_shrink is enabled. If the value of the -minimum-size parameter is invalidated by a manual volume resize or is invalid when autosize is enabled, the minimum size is reset to the volume size. The -shrink-threshold-percent switch allows you to specify the threshold percentage of used space below which the autoshrink action is triggered. Similarly, if the used space in a volume exceeds the value specified with the -grow-threshold-percent switch, the autogrow action is triggered.' I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate 'kudos' on any helpful posts.)
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VG - The command is 'vol autosize'. The trigger is configurable with '-grow-threshold-percent <used space %>'. See the 'vol' command man page: https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMP1511537/html/man1/na_vol.1.html I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate 'kudos' on any helpful posts.)
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Newbee - The filers may not have been correctly associated with your company at the time of purchse. Ask your reseller about the issue ? I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate 'kudos' on any helpful posts.)
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Nathan - Yes, you can do that, You can do that on the fly with no data loss. But you should understand the dangers involved. (If you do run out of space it can be a bad thing !) In my environs I use 'extreme' thin provisioning. I set the volume level guarantee to 'none' for NAS and SAN. This has the effect of disabling space guarantee for LUNs on the volumes. There are many other ways to manage thin provisioning in Data ONTAP. You probably want to read through some of the TRs on thin provisioning that may be found at www.netapp.com/library I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate 'kudos' on any helpful posts.)
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Siddaraju - Yes, you are correct. A 'node' is a single controller. I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate 'kudos' on any helpful posts.)
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Siddaraju - 1 node = 1 controller. I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate 'kudos' on any helpful posts.)
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Kmalesh - PERL is very mush supported using the SDK. The connection is over SSL, not SSH. Simulators work the same with the SDK and all API calls as live systems do. You may wish to view a free webinar on API programming I did for FastLane US last year: http://www.fastlaneus.com/webinars -> Previously Recorded Webinars Zephyr Application Programming Interface I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate 'kudos' on any helpful posts.)
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Rawat - The impact of auditing isn't that high. It does depend on how much auditing you turn. File access logging will be a bit more load. cifs.audit.saveas specifies the location for the log files: cifs.audit.saveas Specifies the active event log file. The file must be in an existing directory in a network share. You may wish to look at all of the cifs.audit option definitions before turning on auditing. They're all documented in the 'options' man page: https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMP1511537/html/man1/na_options.1.html I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate 'kudos' on any helpful posts.)
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Akhil - Version 5.3 and the newest version 5.4 have support for both. I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate 'kudos' on any helpful posts.)
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Tomer - CP type definitions can be found in the man page for the sysstat command. I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate 'kudos' on any helpful posts.)
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Smokey - There's a post install checklist that's part of the Installation Worksheet. I hope this response has been helpful to you. At your service, Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr. Independent NetApp Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp (P.S. I appreciate 'kudos' on any helpful posts.)
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