Yep, the version I mentioned here shouldn't have that problem ... View more

Like kunalm mentioned, please try the current release of SM first, and maybe report what's wrong SystemManagerLaunchURL.txt will not exist until you actually run System Manager with the java command mentioned just above it. If you say that you have a version of Ontap not working with the latest SM, I'll provide an easier way to run old SM version on the Mac, but it'll take a few day for me to set that up. Best regards, ... View more

Sorry for the confusion, it looks like you're right, it is very visible in the matrix (http://support.netapp.com/matrix/). Did you try that anyway ? I'm not sure it is just not supported but working, or really not working. So, you can download 2.0.2 for linux here : http://support.netapp.com/NOW/download/software/systemmgr_lin/2.0.2/ It is not too hard to make it run on OSX, so... First, get rpm2cpio here : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1760713/rpm2cpio Basically, you need to transform the RPM to CPIO, you do this from Terminal : $ rpm2cpio sysmgr-setup-2-0-2-linux.rpm > sysmgr-2.0.1.cpio Then you extract the CPIO archive : $ cpio -id < sysmgr-2.0.1.cpio Then you manually run System Manager : $ cd opt/NetApp/oncommand_system_manager/2.0/ $ java -jar SystemManager.jar Then if from another terminal window you look into the SystemManagerLaunchURL.txt file in the same folder, you get the URL that you can copy and paste in Safari. Now, I realize it can be very technical for most people but at least this is a way to run old versions (and new ones as well for that matter) on Mac OS X. ... View more

SM 3.1 supports ontap versions from 7.3 to 8.2, as far as I know, and according to what the IMT says. I used the SM for Mac version available here but it should be the same with the one on Tools Chest ... View more

Snapshots are a point in time representation of the blocks making up the volume at that instant. If you copy them to another volume, using ndmp or CIFS copy from a windows client, you are going to copy over the entire content of what that snapshot represents, whereas before it could have actually take a few gigs on disk, it will use the overlapp capacity of the volume, so that's generally not a good idea. If you want to export specific snapshots, you should use SnapVault, but you still an't remove individual files from a snapshot. ... View more

I would open a case and work with support to either try to get the disk online again or get it replaced ... View more

You might start taking a look at this : https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMP1196991/html/GUID-6FD5A2AE-A847-43F0-97F1-1840679A9DA2.html ... View more

Be careful that snap mirror won't be supported if the target is at a lower release than the source (i.e. 8.1 to 8.0) 64 bit to 32 bit might not be supported as well, please consult the nap mirror FAQ document. ... View more

Was it complaining because it was the same WWPN as in the igroup on the other controller, or because you mapped a LUN which ended up having the same ID as another mapping on the other controller ? You can have the same igroup on both controllers, but you can't map using the same LUN iD ... View more

I'm not familiar with System Setup but I know how it works. How is connected the system to your workstation ? You should be on a physically isolated network since System Setup will provide DHCP and the controllers are supposed to catch an IP from this DHCP server. ... View more

Hi Jean-François I'm surprised by this and was able to confirm by looking at documentations. That said, if you look at the IMT, you see that 3210 is supported for Balance 4.1.1, right ? You mean you wouldn't be able to buy licenses for each of your 7-mode controllers, including 3210 ? As for HP, yes, I think you can forget about that, but it is not consistant with the IMT that still says that other vendors are supported... I'm not being very helpful here, but keep us updated if you find informations 🙂 ... View more

There is a whole lot of reason why the CPU could be busy, and the answer usually comes from a perfstat and a call to NetApp Support. Deduplication is one of them, as is SnapMirror especially when using high speed links, block reclamation as you said, if you deleted a large amount of snapshots for example, volume realloc, etc etc... You also need to avoid using the single number given by the filer as CPU usage, but do a sysstat -M to see what each CPU is using, it might be very different and not that bad finally. Do you observe any latency / slowness on the clients side ? ... View more

Unfortunately there is no way to do that, you must add > 16TB worth of disks in the aggregate and it will convert automatically. The only useful case for a manual conversion though, is if your aggregate is a snapmirror destination from a 64bit aggregate using pre 8.1 version of Data ONTAP. See tr-3446.pdf ... View more

That's an interesting question. And not an easy one! It all depends on what you like. Reading your message, I'm guessing you're not a partner, so you don't get a lot of occasions to work on different projects and learn different aspects of storage, this would be a great way to learn. Personally, I always had a problem "learning". I mean, learning as an activity of its own. I always needed real projects to work on, and was lucky enough when Santa delivered some 20+ blade servers and two NetApp filers and said "You're the guy that is going to set that up because no one else knows NetApp"... I didn't know NetApp either, and I had great fun. If you are like me, and can't get motivated on purely academic work, that's going to be tough, but you can certainly find some activity : If not NetApp, I'm a virtualization guy, so I spent a day or two setting up a VMware / NetApp lab on my laptop with VMware fusion and the NetApp simulator. Maybe that's something you would enjoy doing : install the whole stack, install VSC, have fun with our efficiency stuffs with VMware's VAAI for NFS You're more a microsoft guy ? Go Hyper-V, cDOT and SMB3 integration with copy offload By the way, if you don't know the NetApp Simulator, it is time to head to the download section of the support site and install it, this is a huge learning resource by itself. If you need to work on existing environment, play with OnCommand Core / Ops Manager. Configure alerts, make sure everyone is healthy and you get an email when storage gets low or latency goes high. Jump on that guy trying to solve a NetApp problem, get involved with support, like you said, troubleshooting is also one great way to learn, you start by asking stupid questions and you learn by the answer... if the guy you're talking to has enough patience! Work on documentation is also a great way to learn a lot of things : even the obvious topics requires some work to simplify and explain to whoever is going to read you. I've had fun working on a screencast to explain SnapMirror between 7-mode and cDOT (here). Documentation is nice because : 1/There is never enough, you'll always find something to document 2/It requires you to dig as deep as you can to explain what you're working on 3/Anyone can do it, it is not about how technical you are, the topic may be simple, it is about how good you understand it, and if you can explain it, there are chances you can climb the ladder one more step. 4/It is a great occasion to get review by your peers These are my two ¢ ! ... View more

It actually depends on the OS, some OSes will use a single TCP/IP socket to connect to the filer, which makes only one link usable. Some other OSes will use multiple connections, in that case you give a chance to LACP to balance the traffic across multiple links. For example, when creating the vif "-b port" lets you balance when the port used is different, even if source and dest IP are the same. You would have to consult the documentation of your OS to see how to use multiple connections for a single mount. [I hope you read english, I was intrigued by the chinese message and google helped me translate ] ... View more

That is related to the way NFS maps and authenticate users. VMware does not know how to use something else than UID 9 (root) to mount and access a datastore, and usually that wouldn't make any sense to do otherwise anyway since datastore are dedicated most of the time. So, VMware mounts the volume with UID 0, and there is a special security parameter in most NFS servers that determines if UID 0 is to be mapped to another user or if it is allowed to do writes. In that case, you just need to say that, yes, I want root to be able to use the export from the given IP addresses (which are all your VMkernel NFS IPs) ... View more

The problem is that you are using the same subnet. Basically, the TCP/IP stack at the VMkernel level just sees some packets to route to x.x.x.x and it has two interfaces that matches. It just picks up the first one I think. In any situation you need a specific interface for a specific job, you should use a separate IP network. I think the iSCSI case is easier to manage since you can bind specific vmkernel to iSCSI, and not others but the problem is the same. ... View more

As long as you can ping the controller from the VPN, and you can establish a connexion to port 80 or 443 it should be fine ... View more

This is not up to the controller usually, the OS, or should I say the multipath driver in the OS makes the call, because some path gets unresponsive or because manually triggered. The reason for the path change might be somewhere in the OS logs, you might want to take a look. Is this ALUA ? ... View more

It looks like the serial number shouldn't be an issue in most case. As far as DOT is concerned, serial number doesn't matter for snapmirror or peer relationships, but some third party products may, I thinking about VMware SRM… ... View more

That's interesting. First time I deployed my 2 nodes, I setup a random serial number, like I used to do before, but I could not set the licenses… No error message either, but key and serial didn't match so it was ignored. Now, the installation documentations mentions only two different serial numbers : The original one which does not look like it should be changed (4079432-74-1), and the one for the second node which is 4034389-06-2. And this is the same documentation for ESX or non-ESX platforms. Here is how my license show looks like : clus3::> license show   (system license show) Serial Number: 1-80-000008 Owner: clus3 Package           Type    Description           Expiration ----------------- ------- --------------------- -------------------- Base              license Cluster Base License  - Serial Number: 1-81-0000000000000004034389062 Owner: clus3-02 Package           Type    Description           Expiration ----------------- ------- --------------------- -------------------- NFS               license NFS License           - CIFS              license CIFS License          - iSCSI             license iSCSI License         - FCP               license FCP License           - SnapRestore       license SnapRestore License   - SnapMirror        license SnapMirror License    - FlexClone         license FlexClone License     - SnapVault         license SnapVault License     - SnapLock          license SnapLock Compliance License - SnapManagerSuite  license SnapManagerSuite License - SnapProtectApps   license SnapProtectApp License - SnapLock_Enterprise license SnapLock Enterprise License - Insight_Balance   license OnCommand Balance     - Serial Number: 1-81-0000000000000004079432741 Owner: clus3-01 Package           Type    Description           Expiration ----------------- ------- --------------------- -------------------- NFS               license NFS License           - CIFS              license CIFS License          - iSCSI             license iSCSI License         - FCP               license FCP License           - SnapRestore       license SnapRestore License   - SnapMirror        license SnapMirror License    - FlexClone         license FlexClone License     - SnapVault         license SnapVault License     - SnapLock          license SnapLock Compliance License - SnapManagerSuite  license SnapManagerSuite License - SnapProtectApps   license SnapProtectApp License - SnapLock_Enterprise license SnapLock Enterprise License - Insight_Balance   license OnCommand Balance     - 27 entries were displayed. ... View more