No. ... View more

Yes, you can, but disk will be down-sized to 300GB, you will not be able to use full capacity as long as disk remains in raid group with 300GB disks. ... View more

Do you see any leftover aggregates in "aggr status"? I wonder if this disk belongs to pool, not sure how pool is represented in maintenance mode.   As this disk is in external shelf, you probably can simply unplug shelf during installation and add it later. ... View more

Clustershell commands are not available in maintenance boot, unless this has changed in 9.x. ... View more

Supported configurations are - single node cluster and cluster consisting of HA pairs. ... View more

Technically - yes (you may need to add switches etc). But this is not supported. ... View more

What is "stale aggregate"? ... View more

I see only one spare part number for empty shelf, so it is unlikely that it has any SAS/SATA specific settings. Did you try to power off shelf, remove two PSU and replace them with blanks, power on again? 4PSU SATA shelf is valid and I am pretty sure that if you remove PSU while shelf is powered on, it should report an error (how else would you know you lost it? 🙂 ) ... View more

What you mean is called "head swap". Yes, this is supported (also on 8.2) but it is rather different from moving shelves. ... View more

If you mean - moving shelf without losing data - no, so far there is no documented way to do it, except in CFT. Which proves, that technically it *is* possible 🙂 ... View more

Protocol licenses are the same in both 7-Mode and C-Mode. ... View more

What is not clear in this statement from relase notes? "3210 and 3140 storage systems with Flash Cache modules are not supported in Data ONTAP 8.2 and later 8.2.x releases operating in 7-Mode"? ... View more

Define "every month" 🙂 The schedule does run every month, but you did not tell it at which day, so it also runs every day. If you want to run it once a month, pick day and set it in schedule (-day), e.g. first day of month. You do not even need to set months in this case. ... View more

Yes, yes and yes. You can use syncmirror to protect against complete rg failure. ... View more

@tomekp wrote: Does that mean that with ONTAP 8.3.x  it's literally not possible to convert regular SM to disaster recovery SM, right?   That's something only NetApp internal can answer. I can only say that this feature is listed as new in ONTAP 9 release notes and is not documented in 8.3.x manuals. ... View more

I doubt very much that what you expect is possible. Configuration backup contains cluster configuration (content of replicated databases). It can be used to restore access to existing data after those databases are corrupted beyond repair. But recreating all aggregates during configuration restore would be really disastrous for this use case. May be there are some diag level options, but it is definitely not something I expect to happen by default, normal usage.   Root aggregates are only in WAFL because they obviously have different UUIDs so are not known to configuration you restored.   What you do looks more like replicating cluster configuration to different cluster than to recover existing cluster. As far as I know there is no tool to do it. I would rather look at using ZAPI to capture configuration items you are interested in and replaying them on new cluster. In principle it can even be done using standard CLI ... View more

It sounds like you need ONTAP 9 that supports both converting regular snapmirror to disaster recovery snapmirror and identity preserve excluding LIF configuration. ... View more

ekashpureff wrote:  There's nothing about MetroCluster I know of that would restrict you from setting up SnapMirror or Snap vault to a remote destination. SnapMirror relationship is between specific peer clusters. After switchover resources are now hosted on different cluster. What process updates SnapMirror destination to pull data from new peer?   I'm going to setup this and test ... ... View more

Yes, it will work with different firmware versions although best practice is of course to keep them on the same level. Accidents happen and I had cases of bad spares. Just open case and let support analyze whether it may be slot or simply bad luck. ... View more

@JGPSHNTAP wrote: Appears from the IMT   UTA2 ports are not supported with IBM tape devices. Using direct connection; but you do are not going to use direct connection, so I do not see why it should not be supported. That is why I asked where have you seen this statement. ... View more

Can you give a link which says it is not supported? ... View more

You shelf has dual-path connection and Data ONTAP tries to balance access across two connected HBAs. So it is normal, nothing to be concerned about. ... View more