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aborzenkov · ‎2012-03-27

Onboard FC can be used for tape drive connection. Some SAS tape drives are supported (check on NetApp site or with your reseller), but as you likely will be using SAS disk shelves, you will need extra SAS HBA for it. There are only two SAS ports on FAS3200 and they are required for shelf connection.

aborzenkov · ‎2012-03-27

Snapmirror destination is read-only, so whatever you do to create “good snapshot” you must do on snapmirror source. After good snapshot is replicated to destination, it can be used as SnapVault base snapshot. TR Radek referred to give detail instructions how to snapvault SM destination.

aborzenkov · ‎2012-03-26

Can you explicitly mount …/.snapshot directory or any snapshot inside?

aborzenkov · ‎2012-03-24

Paste output of cf status disk show -v from both heads.

aborzenkov · ‎2012-03-24

Do these KB help? https://kb.netapp.com/support/index?page=content&id=1012643 https://kb.netapp.com/support/index?page=content&id=1011623 Permissions are controlled by filersystem-level permissions. You need to map anonymous FTP account to domain user, then you will be able to set permissions.

aborzenkov · ‎2012-03-24

If you are a customer (i.e. – your NOW account is associated with a company that owns some NetApp products), you get access to knowledge base, support forums, bulletins, ASUP, software downloads (some are available to everyone, some require valid subscription). You can also open and follow opened tickets for your registered products on NOW site (assuming valid maintenance agreement exists). I do not know whether it is really possible to open and pay for single ticket if no maintenance agreement exists. There is no reason to not use all of this as long as you are a customer. All that it takes – 5 minutes to register ☺ You can also register as guest; I am not sure what exactly it entitles you to.

aborzenkov · ‎2012-03-22

I think if you are planning to add more shelves later and it is possible to build new loop (meaning - you have free ports on filer, necessary SFP and cables), it makes sense to start now. Simply to achieve better load distribution. You always will be able to add new disks to aggregate; they are not tied to physical disk location.

aborzenkov · ‎2012-03-22

I have never heard about such command; maybe it is cluster mode related, dunno.

aborzenkov · ‎2012-03-22

The possibility to "check off" specific Notifications/Reminder would be handy. I am currently facing a system which does not use DNS and will never use DNS due to configuration requirements. So Alert to "Set DNS domain name ..." is pretty meaningless and basically informational noise.

aborzenkov · ‎2012-03-22

I confirm that adding NetApp uname's to hosts does make SM far more responsive. While this is valid workaround for customer installations, this is not really acceptable for me as consultant/engineer in situation where I permanently face new systems and new networks.

aborzenkov · ‎2012-03-22

Please, report the results …

aborzenkov · ‎2012-03-22

I can’t comment on Protection Manager case (I guess you better ask this specific question on OnCommand forum); but I do not see how primary and secondary on the same system makes any difference in “real men CLI” case ☺ The main problem with SV from SM destination is that SM destination is read-only. So if you use named snapshot to setup SV schedule, this snapshot must be created on SM source. Or you can configure SV to always use the latest SM baseline snapshot for updates. You say “I can't get the offsite filer to accept a command to create the sanpvault relationship”. Please copy and paste exact command invocation and output.

aborzenkov · ‎2012-03-21

Have you removed base snapshots left by snapmirror?

aborzenkov · ‎2012-03-21

Well, then ... Why documentation requires it to be on for volumes, containing LUNs? Why SnapDrive explicitly enables it on volumes when creating LUN?

aborzenkov · ‎2012-03-21

What do you mean under "storage failover subset of commands"? Showing exact command invocation is better than providing long description.

aborzenkov · ‎2012-03-21

There is no automatic redistribution. You need to manually run "reallocate" command.

aborzenkov · ‎2012-03-21

TR-3487 gives detailed description how to protect SM destination with SV.

aborzenkov · ‎2012-03-21

Looks like some Oracle datafiles are on root directory.

aborzenkov · ‎2012-03-21

There should be no performance impact during normal operation, you will get longer rebuild time (and performance will be degraded during rebuild).

aborzenkov · ‎2012-03-21

Yes, this looks like a missing feature in WireGauge. If you are customer, you can submit feedback. If you are partner, you could try open a ticket on it.

aborzenkov · ‎2012-03-21

8.1.1 is expected to support 256GB PAM II on 3210.

aborzenkov · ‎2012-03-21

Do you mean WireGauge?

aborzenkov · ‎2012-03-21

From yesterday's customer installation There is no way to unconfigure interface. During initial setup only e0M address was known, but there is no way to skip configuration of at least one other interface so we have to add fake IP. Later in SM I can "disable" it, but it still remains in /etc/rc and /etc/hosts; there is "delete" button but it never active. How is it possible to completely unconfigure interface in SM? During VIF creation round-robin and port-based load balancing options are not offered, though they are supported (8.0.2P6). Customer specifically requested to set preferred interface(s) for single VIFs on different filers to different switches; this is not possible. Configuration of interface looks like chicken and egg issue. During creation of VIF on the first head I have to select partner interface; but at this moment VIF that will be partner still does not exist on another head. May be I miss something obvious Can I manually enter interface name? Or just select from the list?

aborzenkov · ‎2012-03-20

copy file into /etc/software use “software install 30801834.zip” Or http://... if file is available via HTTP server

aborzenkov · ‎2012-03-20

Did you intentionally omit the third (which rather should be the very first) approach – actually document it in manuals so users would not need to dig around searching for it?

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