I would like to create an aggregate for a sas disk shelf with raid group 24 and keep one disk as spare disk. aggr create aggrname -B 64 24 is that correct? how do i make one disk as spares? ... View more

what is the bestway to convert 32-bit aggregate to 64-bit. created a new aggregate using oncomand system manager and asigned all the disk, I have noticed that 32-bit. I think the oncomand default was set to 32-bit. how can i make it 64-bit ... View more

How do I check the existing volumes whethe they are NAS (used for cifs or NFS) or they are SAN (used for FC/FOE or iscsi)? thank you for in advance. ... View more

Filer A and Filer B (dr site) Vols are being  sanpmirrored from filer A (/vol/vol_a) to filer B (/vol/vol_b) on aggregate 0 I want to rebuild the aggregate0 on filer B, this case I thought of creating another aggregate on filer B (same filer). 1- snapmirror on filer B , that is snapmirror –S :/vol/volB  filerB:/vol/voC Then I want to break the snapmirror relation so the vol C will become unrestricted. is it possible now that I can resync the relation from filer A  to Filer B , but between Vol A to VolC? That is, snapmirror resync filerA:/vol/volA  filerB:/vol/volC I am not sure whether we can resync since I did not initialize this sanpmirror between A and C at the beginning. ... View more

FAS2024 is configured as active/active HA. I connected a new disk shelf and noticed that owner of that disks on that shelf is Controller B (Filer B). I want to assign few disks from that shelf to Controller A, this case to my filer is filer A. Is it possibe to do that? ... View more

Connected ACP cables and noticed that the status full connectivity and all loop were active. It now shows that some loop " not reponding." when i do >storage show acp The status shows partial connectiviy/Full Conectivity. ... View more

I have a FAS2040 with dual controller and have two disk shelf. one  with 800GB and other 2.2TB, both are  full shelf. Can someone recomend me please a best disk assigment in which I will not mix the disks. I need DP and spare disk too. I thought of RG=20, this case I will have (18 data+1 paroty +1DP)+spare, but I will left with 4 *800GB disks and they are going to go to next RG: then I have to change the RG for 2.2TB. Is it the way to go? ... View more

I have performed move root vol to an another aggregate on netapp simulator before I do this in my production filer. It gave me little surprise  after I followed the KB article , that is, host name and ip address are missing. I followed the KB article and copied entire vol using ndmpcopy /vo/vol0 /vol/newroot then vol options newvol root reboot after reboot I was able to login, but it host name is blank > can not putty into becuase e0a does has IP. will this happen in the real filer? ... View more

I have not used snapmirror and like to know the way to snapmirror Qtree to multiple location on the destination filer. Hope someone can hlp me? The destination filer filer 2 has aggregates aggr0 and aggr1 Source filer has a qtree /vol/vol1/qtree I want this to be sanpmirred on filer 2 at aggr0 and aggr1 ... View more

We are snapmirroing database and log files to an aggregate on the destination filer , this aggregate on the filer need to be destroy becuase of the raid sie and space etc.. We can not have too long down time on our servers, this case we better have multiple copy of the databse and log files. That is, If I have multiple copy then I can switch the luns from one place to another in minimum downtime. Can we schedule snapmirror to multiple locations ? For an example. I create another aggregate named this aggr1 on the same destination filer, then schedule snapmirror from  source to detination 1 and 2. ... View more

I have FAS2040 and want to assign disks to an aggregate. Can someone recomen me good raid size. I have a SAS disk shelf with 2 4*600GB  disks and 7 spare SATA(2.2TB) disks from another shelf . I am not worried about the performance because I am going to use this to migrate the data to this new aggregate temporarily to rebuild the original aggregate, need max capacity. ... View more

I am new to snapmirro hope someone can help me. thsi is what i want I have filer1 and filer 2 I see right now the snapmirror is running from filer1 to filer2 for a volume I have two agreegate in filer2 aggr0 and aggr1 I want to snapmirror a volume  vol1 from aggro to aggr1 ... View more