You should see all disks from both controllers, but the ones not belonging to the head you're looking at in system manager will show as "partner" in disk status. If you are only see half the disks on each head then the start point would be to run "wireguage" the free Netapp utility (recently renamed to Config Advisor). ... View more

The space should be available within a few minutes of deleting the lun, if not check the snapshot (NetApp not VMware) and delete as needed. ... View more

Hi I'm assuming that you've not created any new volumes or luns since adding the extra disk capacity. In that case the answer is fairly simple, just create a new volume and lun to the size you want and use storage vmotion to move the VM guests over (potentially without down time). Once you've cleared a volume, delete it and create a new one to your preferred size, repeating as needed. In theory you could resize the luns, but I'm not sure VMWare will like that much. ... View more

Hi Sorry for the delay in replying. 1. The home directories truly doesn't need to be a share, but you'll still need some way of creating the folders with the NT usernames (could be done via the filer command line or via NFS, I guess. Note if you rename a folder the link to the NT username is lost. 2. Qtrees. you've pretty much got it, they can be thought of like folders, which you can set a quota on, either an overall limit, a per user limit or by group. What you can't do is make a folder a qtree tree retrospectively. ... View more

Hi Briefly, I think the features that you would want to use for this are : 1. The home directories facility : This allows you to specify specific folder or folders (it will try them in order) to act in a special way, where a user will see a share with the same name as their AD user name. ie On filer123 the admin sets the home directories value to /vol/homedirs (not a CIFS share, this is just the NetApp volume name), and creates a folder called aduser567 then if I'm user aduser567 I can see a share called \\filer123\aduser567 and have all rights to it. No other user can see this share (except admins if you set it up to, via a options command). 2. Qtrees : these are special folders you create which can have a quota on them based per user or in total. Combine the two: you could have some users with a home drive limited to 100GB and others with a limit of 250GB, but setting the home dir to two different qtrees. ... View more

Hi There are a few choices here: Most of the OnCommand software is free now (it replaces Operations manager etc, also free from software downloads). Performance and Statistics Collector (perfstat) from tool box utilities. OnCommand system manager shows performance in real time. SysStat from the filer command line (-f for for FCP specific info) lun stats  also from the command line (-o with -i or - c) May be your fabric switches have monitoring options within them (our low end Brocades do) ... View more

Don't think all of those are OnTap commands, if any, a quick Google says they're mostly Unix / Linux commands. ... View more

Hi Probably a bit late for you but, this is the no.1 google hit for this message so hopefully could help others. I had this message and was stumped for a while. In my case it was caused by when volume snapmirroring with a lun that was over 80% full to a volume which was the same size as the source but had a different snapshot percent of 20%. ... View more

Hi Everyone Thanks for help, following a few more conversations with my US collegues and our NetApp sales / tech reps both side of the pond, I think we are going my way: two clusters of 3240s. All in, hardware / license / support costs: the difference is <1%. ... View more

I think you need to find out what the client is really trying to achieve and why there are multiple servers etc. You could do two ways: simplest way is to present the NetApp storage as a NAS volume using CIFS or NFS. The application / process(es) on the server(s) that needs to write the data will need to be running as a user with access to the filer. ie if using CIFS an AD user, or server could simply be left logged in as a user with these rights. The other way could be try it the SAN way, run MS clustering software in Active / Active and present the storage as a LUN to both servers. I guess the third way could be to use VFM or similar replication software. All this is assuming both servers never try to access or modify the same file at the same time. I think you've a bit of trail and error ahead of you! Good luck ... View more

Pointing Windows Computer Manager at it works too. Right click on at the top level and select connect to another computer Select shared folders etc ... View more

Put simply because there can be more that one RAID group in an aggregate. Depends on size and type of disk, but with a large of small disks there could be several RAID groups (a RAID is the data and parity disks) ... View more

Thanks to everyone for the feedback. You confirmed what I thought so I win the agrument! Meantime a collegue in the US, where the system in question is located just created one anyway and started using it. Upset our long serving Netapp guru but it was a bit of a no brainer in the circumstance. ... View more

You may need to provide a bit more information but things to check. 1. Physical fibre / network connection and switch zoning or config. 2. Is snapdive running as an account with enough rights to the domain the filer is in (used to domain admin, but is less now) 3. Config on the filer ie the Initiator Groups ... View more

As far as I know, switching on CIFS Auditing will give you some of that information (assuming you are accessing via CIFS), File name / User access. The rest of the information is not going to be available directly, I'm sure there are third party products that can provide this information by acting as proxy the Filer. NFS and FTP access offer some more detailed logging. ... View more

From Microsoft via Google NetApp has logged a bug for this issue: http://now.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/bol?Type=Detail&Display=373136 Bug ID     373136 Title     Previous-versions tab does not list entries on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Duplicate of      Bug Severity    3 - Serious inconvenience Bug Status    Fixed Product    Data ONTAP Bug Type    CIFS Description When Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 clients are used to access CIFS shares offered by Data ONTAP, and if the older SMB 1.0 protocol is being used, then the Windows Explorer "Previous Versions" tab for files or folder properties may fail to list any existing previous versions. Workaround If circumstances permit, the problem may be avoided by use of the newer SMB 2.0 protocol. Notes Before enabling the SMB 2.0 protocol, make sure that the release of Data ONTAP in use is not susceptible to the bug 356893. Fixed-In Version        * Data ONTAP 7.2.7P1 (First Fixed) - Fixed     * Data ONTAP 7.3.3 (GD) - Fixed     * Data ONTAP 7.3.5 (GA) - Fixed     * Data ONTAP 8.0.1 (GA) - Fixed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We see it and are using Data ONTAP Release 7.3.2P4D1 ... View more

Type \\myfiler\myvol\ ~snapshot You then get a list of snapshots available. I believe NetApp are working on the underlying issue. ... View more

Think you'll find this is an issue with that version of Mac OS. We had it last year and it turned out some older Mac's with 10.5 and earlier you needed to use the FQDN to get to shares etc, also Macs can be unhappy with long share names. ... View more

I think you are going to hit the limit for aggregate size of 16TB, so you can only have 10 or may be 12 disks in a Raid Group, and have to have at least 2 probably 3 aggregates. ... View more