PM creates aggr sized volumes with guarantee set to none in case of VSM relationship, but for Backup relationships (ie SV/QSM) if Dynamic Sizing is enabled we dynamically resize the secondary volumes instead of creating it to the size of the containing aggr. DFM 3.8.1 is released and its a GA release, i strongly suggest you to upgrade to the same. Regards adai ... View more

Hi Mike,      What do you mean by Structured data file? FSRM use Host Agent to collect Host side usage and statictics like, file size, access time, last user accessed, etc. This can be done on CIFS shares,Mapped Network Drives(can be both Cifs Shares or LUN),Local Drive(C:/, D:/) etc in case of Windows boxes. In case of linux and Solaris boxes they work on mount paths, which can even be luns, or nfs exported volumes or qtrees. Regards adai ... View more

What is your diskmon monitoring interval ? As per the bugs online workaround,  setting this interval to more than 1 hours will over come this issue. Can you try setting it to 75minutes or 90 minutes if it was already less than 60 minutes. Regards adai ... View more

Have you explored the option of DFM db access ? If not pls take a look @ the TR http://media.netapp.com/documents/tr-3690.pdf Regards adai ... View more

The Bugs online also says its fixed in 3.8.1 which is expected in couple of weeks.Also its a GA release. Regards adai ... View more

If we add new features doesnt it again become a FCS instead of a .1 release. Let see if we can break the myth of your statement. "Additionally not all customers want to run the risk of deploying First Customer Ship releases of storage management software." with 4.0 Regards adai ... View more

Hi Ivan,      All host setting are correct, and perf status is also fine you should be able to see the aggregate performance report. Regards adai ... View more

Hi Ivan,      Pls check the perf status for each of the filer where you dont find any performance data. This can be done by either running dfm host diag <filername/id> or in the NMC> Host>Setup. Only if the perf data is collected this report will be able to show data for the performance fields. Regards adai ... View more

There is no  consequences because of this. There is already a bug for the same and the engineering is investigating. Regards adai ... View more

Use the dfm perf data retrive to get the historical data. dfm perf counter list only list the available counter for an object type. Also use the dfm perf data describe to see how long is the data stored for each counter group. Regards adai ... View more

I got your point.You would like to have humanreadable form values not always in KBs. Let me see if there is any tweak to do this . Regards adai ... View more

You hit this error in one of the following condition. The destination filer is not able to reach the source by its hostname. Debug:Try to ping the source filer/ossv from the destination filer using is hostname. Solution:Add proper dns or make entries in the /etc/hosts in the destination filer. The snapvault.access is legacy or something in the source and/or destination filer. Add the IP address of the filer to each other in the snapvault.access on the filers. On the ossv configurator is the qsm access check enabled ? if so is your filer added to the list. Either disable that or add an entry about this filer to the access check list. Regards adai ... View more

Hi,       There are couple of reasons as to why only Backup/Remote Backup policy was allowed. Non-Disruptive Lun restore is supported only for SnapVault relationships. As Backup/Remote Backup policies allow you only to create SnapVault relationships.they are allowed. Also the work around would be to change the policy from Protection manager for the dataset. though i am not sure if there is any impact from the snapmanagers. you might  have to test to see if there is any impact. Regards adai ... View more

We had performance problems in 3.6R1, we have improved dramatically in 3.7.1 and 3.8 BTW 3.7.1 is a GA release. Can you upgrade to one of them ? ... View more

aggr show_space  was not there in 7.1 i believe. I tried the same in 7.0 also, but same result. ... View more

Oops, bad luck. Ok can you raise a burt for the same requesting for a db view for events. Then the last resort is to dump the reports in csv or xl format and run some post processing to get what you desire. Regards adai ... View more

There is no time range  that the events report take as argument. But one work around would  be, if you have enabled db access using db user. then you can get the desired output by filtering from the triggered field. Regards adai ... View more

we are playing safe. we dont want to destroy users data. we leave it to the user. Regards adai ... View more

At any point we dont destroy the volume or data in the volume. We only remove the relationship. viz SV/QSM/VSM Regards adai ... View more

hi pete,               when we remove a member from a dataset (say secondary volume) using the edit wizard of NMC. Conformance say removing all unneeded relationships. Now this volume doesnt belong to the dataset anymore right ? So will the retentinon time for the snapshots of this volume still apply even though these volumes are out of the dataset ? Regards adai ... View more

Is there any way to specify what time of day the 1-day polling schedule adheres to? No. Can you regulate it by issuing a manual "refresh counters" command? Yes. dfm host discover <filername/id> If you did so, would DFM wait a predictable 24 hours from there to poll again? Yes. Regards adai ... View more

No.We don't change behaviors/ features in .1 releases. This specific issue is a ONTAP bug and the only fix for this is from ontap. This  bug will be posted in the warning page of 3.8.1 download also. Regards adai ... View more

Does Operations Manager have any reports in it regarding deduplication results on volumes? Yes.   My customer is requesting these reports and I have heard that there may be something added in OM 3.8. Following are the reports and there names. aggregates-dedupe-and-lun-file-clones-space-savings            deduplication and LUN/File clone space savings report for all aggregates   volumes-dedupe-and-lun-file-clones-space-savings                deduplication and LUN/File clone space savings report for all volumes   groups-dedupe-and-lun-file-clones-space-savings                deduplication and LUN/File clone space savings report for all volumes in a group   Are there way to get dedupe reports prior to OM 3.8. No. Regards adai ... View more