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In this article I’m going to walk you through the steps I used to upgrade my NetApp Simulator from ONTAP 9.6 to the new ONTAP 9.7 RC1 Warning: This is strictly performed on the NetApp simulator. Do not follow this process for a production system. Always use NetApp Upgrade Advisor I will perform the upgrade…
Have you ever had to perform a large number of vol moves in order to evacuate or decommission an aggregate? This week I had to evacuate about 50+ volumes from an aggregate that is being decommissioned. Instead of typing out the vol move command 50+ times I decided to automate it with NetApp Powershell module….
Last week Netapp released the latest Unified Manager and Performance manager. The latest release ties the 2 products closer than ever with the new Full Integration option (Single pane of glass), which allows you to view both Unified Manager health information and Performance Manager information within the same window. Over the weekend I had a…
When converting a system from 7-mode to Clustered Data Ontap, there are a few steps that need to be done. You can find the process in my article: Netapp Data Ontap 7-Mode to Clustered Ontap Steps Netapp 7-mode to c-mode bootarg.init.boot_clustered I came across a system which was running Data Ontap 8.1.4P3 as 7-mode that…
Netapp Clustered Data Ontap 8.3.2 RC1 Today Netapp announced the release of Clustered Data Ontap 8.3.2 RC1 There have been a few enhancements and bug fixes included in this release, such as: Storage QOS no supported on clusters up to 24 nodes [Metro Cluster] Support for Cisco 9250i switches [Metro Cluster] Support for QLE2564 quad-port…
Netapp Fpolicy Panic [ad name=”sysadmintutorialsSquare250″]There is a nasty bug within certain versions of Netapp Data Ontap where if you have fpolicy enabled on any vserver within your cluster, the node can crash, including multiple HA pairs at the same time. Netapp’s Bug ID is 800390 and it explains the following: When performing certain SAN SCSI operations…
How to Disable Netapp Flash Pool Caching Per Volume [ad name=”sysadmintutorialsSquare250″] The default caching action for volumes on a flash pool aggregate is to cache reads and writes, however you may have a use case to disable caching on a per volume basis. To determine the caching policy of a volume, we have to jump…
Netapp OnCommand Performance Manager 2.0 RC1 Netapp OnCommand Performance Manager ties in with OnCommand Unified Manager and provides performance monitoring and alerting of your Netapp C-Mode system running Data Ontap 8.3.x and 8.2.x New Features of OnCommand Performance Manager include: New Graphical interface with additional performance pages Can now create user defined thresholds System-Defined thresholds…
Error: Could Not Complete Giveback Because of Non-CA Locks on Volume I came across this error (Could Not Complete Giveback Because of Non-Ca Locks on Volume) during a failover and give back on a HA pair. Performing the manual failover was fine and all aggregates failed over correctly, however on the failback the root volumes…