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….
Ontap 9 is still relatively new, only being released a few weeks ago and with all the hype around the new features and performance gains between previous versions, I really wanted to see this for myself. Netapp Ontap 9 Performance Lab Testing I have taken to the lab with 3 different versions of the operating…
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…
This week Netapp has announced the general availability of Data Ontap 8.3.2 Some of the added features of Data Ontap 8.3.2 are: Netapp Data Ontap 8.3.2 Features Inline Deduplication MetroCluster distance increase now supporting up to 300km between sites Oracle NFS workload on All Flash FAS (AFF) simplify performance and setup with a quick start…
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 Announces General Availability of Data Ontap 8.2.4 Netapp has now released Data Ontap 8.2.4 as GA. This version of Data Ontap is supported on 7-mode as well as C-mode To check if your system is compatible with this release be sure to check out Netapp’s Hardware Universe Clustered Data Ontap 8.2.4 Highlighted Feature Networking…
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 Clustered Data Ontap 8.3.1 (GA) On September 3rd, 2015, Netapp announced the General Availability of Clustered Data Ontap 8.3.1 It is a minor release in the 8.3 family and brings with it a list of new and changed features. A complete list of these features can be found in the Release Notes: Read moreDeleting…
Netapp Synergy 6.2.1 Last Friday 11th of September, Netapp has announced the availability of Synergy version 6.2.1 General Availability. Top features and additions: Data Ontap 8.3.1 GA Release Supported Single Chassis AFF8080 HA Configuration Supported Enhancements to Aggregate View UI Netapp Synergy can be access via the following URL https://synergy.netapp.com Read moreDeleting that annoying Netapp Snapmirror…
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…
Netapp Motherboard Firmware Update for Clustered Data Ontap 8.2.1 If you are looking to upgrade your motherboard and bios firmware on your Netapp System, the first thing to do is to check the compatibility list and ensure the motherboard firmware is compatible with your version of Data Ontap. You can download the firmware for your system from…
Netapp Clustered Ontap 8.2.x Cifs Create Fails If your Netapp environment consists of 1 or more HA pairs and you attempt a cifs create, it could potentially fail warning you that there is no access to a DNS server. This could happen especially in a multi-tenant environment where your node management lifs and data lifs (cifs…
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…