First we dont have any snaplock related  events in Operations Manager. We only report on 3 things about snaplock in operation manger. [root@lnx~]# dfm report catalog list -R volume | grep -i snaplock SnaplockMinPeriod                   SnapLock Minimum Retention Period SnaplockDefaultPeriod               SnapLock Default Retention Period SnaplockMaxPeriod                   SnapLock Maximum Retention Period [root@lnx~]# Regards adai ... View more

If I understand correctly you want to reuse the existing VfilerDR that you have created to do a Datamotion without re-initialization. this is not possible today as said by nagender in the previous post. Regards adai ... View more

That's because dfm is a 32 bit application and each process or service of dfm cant use more than 2G. Regards adai ... View more

NetApp Management Console is supported on only those linux platforms on which DFM server is supported. Ubuntu is not a supported platform. Regards adai ... View more

Based on my experience, this happens when the installation is corrupt. The best way forward is to uninstall the NMC, delete the install dir too, reboot and  a clean install will wipe away this problem. regards adai ... View more

Just one step ahead, instead of setting the thresholds, rather delete the flex vol/lun clone from dfm using dfm volume delete <flexvolclone> or dfm lun delete<lunclone> in the script. Regards adai ... View more

That’s what I remembered, its failover between the hostpreferredAddr1 and hostpreferredAddr2 connections. But with just hostpreferredAddr1 connection its multi. But Shiva I see that IP addr are same. Primary host: sim733a Preferred IP address 1:                      192.168.34.140 Preferred IP address 2:                      192.168.34.141 Secondary host: Preferred IP address 1:                      192.168.34.141 Preferred IP address 2:                      192.168.34.161 This is the man pages excerpt from ONTAP. Each connection definition is a single line giving a name to one or two pairs of IP addresses along with a mode of operation for the connection. The lines are specified in the following format: name = mode( source_ip_addr1 , dest_ip_addr1 ) ( source_ip_addr2 , dest_ip_addr2 ) name This is the name of the connection you would like to define. This name is to be used as the source filer in relationship definitions. mode The mode is optional and specifies the mode in which two IP address pairs will be used. Two modes are allowed multiplexing and failover mode and are specified by using the multi and failover keywords. If not specified, multiplexing mode is used. The multiplexing mode causes snapmirror to use both paths at the same time. If one should fail, it will switch to use the remaining path only and use both again should the failing path be repaired. Failover mode causes snapmirror to use the first path as the desired path and only use the second path should problems arise with the first path. So that confirms the behaviour of multi when both are specifed, also failover when one of them is not available. Regards adai ... View more

Just to qualify more. Its only  placing the live DB in NFS share only is not supported (SYBASE limitation) But making a backup copy of DB to just store it there is supported. Regards adai PS:Thanks to Prasad S our DB expert from QA. ... View more

Yes, its a multi, as when hostpreferredAddr1 is set on both the source and destination filer, and when PM creates a VSM, it makes an entry in the snapmirror.conf of the destination filer as follows, conn_name=multi(IP1,IP2) and when hostpreferredAddr2 is also set on both source and destination IIRC it is used as failover between hostpreferredAddr1 and hostpreferredAddr2 connection. Though I will have to confirm the same. Regards adai ... View more

I think I know this issue, there has been a change in the default space reservation of ONTAP from 7.3.3 or 7.3.4 or latter. Will investigate more and let you know. Regards adia ... View more

Hi Emaneul,      I think you miss understood NFS not supported for DFM db to a NFS datastore of VMware. NFS datastore is perfectly fine,it Vmware that take care of the VMDK that comes from the NFS datastore. Its only not supported when its a NFS export outside the vmdk. Regards adai ... View more

CIFS share and FCP/iSCSI Based LUNs are supported for DB back, its only NFS which not supported. Below is the link from the FAQ about CIFS db location. http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/DFM_win/rel40/html/faq/index.shtml#_9.15 So this says CIFS is supported for db location. Regards adai ... View more

As of today this is not support. As far when this is planned pls get it touch with the Product Managers. Regards adai ... View more

Can you get the output of the following command for the provisioning policy you are using? dfpm policy get <provisioning policy name or id> Also what was the ONTAP version when you didnt have problem ? I am asuming you are currently running 7.3.3 Regards adai ... View more

Or use the dfm eventtype modify to modify the severity of the event. Regards adai ... View more

Even for the dfm to generate this alert, in the filer dfm has to set as the snmp trap host as this is a trap event from the filer that come to DFM and then generated as dfm event. Regards adai ... View more

>but the previous SnapShot (witch one failed) was not updated to the vault. You mean the snapshot taken on the primary ? Yes we dont use that snapshot. Also,yes we dont run failed job, as there is no gurantee that the problem got resolved, and we never know when to retry it. So its the admin who has to do it, either in the cli as dfpm backup start or in the NMC as Protect Now. Regards adai ... View more

I never knew that retention-type was optional in the API, though it makes lot of sense. As i have always used the cli and there its mandatory. [root@lnx ~]# dfpm backup start help NAME     start -- Start an on-demand backup of a dataset. SYNOPSIS     dfpm backup start [ -d <backup-description> ] [ -n <node-name> ]         <data-set-name-or-id> <retention-type> DESCRIPTION     retention-type can be one of hourly, daily, weekly, monthly or unlimited.     backup-description can be specified using -d option.     destination node can be specified using -n option. [root@lnx ~]# Regards adai ... View more

Either make snmp trap host as AW from filer or forward the events in dfm to AW as traps. regards adai ... View more

The counters are ext_cache_obj.There are some counter which are basic and others diag. I didn’t enable any diag and I could see the counters below for ext_cache_obj. # dfm perf counter list filer:ext_cache_obj:*:* | grep basic | grep hit ext_cache_obj ec0 hit_normal_lev0 per_sec basic ext_cache_obj ec0 hit_metadata_file per_sec basic ext_cache_obj ec0 hit_directory per_sec basic ext_cache_obj ec0 hit_indirect per_sec basic ext_cache_obj ec0 total_metadata_hits per_sec basic ext_cache_obj ec0 hit_percent percent basic ext_cache_obj ec0 hit per_sec basic There is no default view for the same; you will have to create a custom view for the same to be collected for PAM II. You can also set thresholds on the same, and the same will be generated on the filer and not on the object ec0 unlike volume or aggr,but like the processors. As they are not managed objects in DFM. Regards adai ... View more

>Can migrations be done simultaneously or are they all done serially? Yes they can be done simultaneously. You can migrate 10 volumes from the Mirror node of a dataset whose topology is like Backup then mirror, but not one from Mirror and Backup simultaneously. regards adai ... View more

Comma works.Even semicolon will work, don't think space is valid. Regards adai ... View more

I just cautioned that, global level options should not be set. BTW, there is another RFE for dynamic groups creation too.Add your case. Burt284101 Regards adai ... View more

That's a smart workaround to get rid of the nagging volume alerts. But  this should be set to individual volumes and not at global level as that will apply for all volumes. regards adai ... View more

Check the alert.log and dfmeventd.log under the install directory for any errors. regards adai ... View more