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Veeam Backup and Replication V10 was recently released and I was keen to get this deployed in the lab and check out some of the new features this awesome product has to offer. As a Cloud Service Provider, we heavily rely on Veeam to backup petabytes of data and we already have plans to role…
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…
If you have been following my Ansible demonstrations, you will see that authenticating to my NetApp simulator I had the username and password embedded into the variables.yml file. Like this: # ONTAP Cluster Login clusterip: 192.168.1.50 user: ansible pass: Password123 https_option: true validate_certs_option: false Let’s face it, adding the username and password into the YAML…
Who loves creating root load-sharing mirrors (LS-mirrors) ? If you manage 1 Ontap system with 1 SVM you may enjoy it, but if you manage multiple systems with many SVM’s then you may not enjoy it as much. The above process can become quite repetitive in large environments. In today’s blog post I’m going to…
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….
If you followed my last post where I created an Ansible Playbook to complete a full setup of a NetApp simulator, you would have seen that it was one gigantic playbook. Working with one gigantic playbook can be a little overwhelming, a little bit messy and as a result, makes it hard to reuse certain…
Last month, I decided it was time to get my hands dirty and jump right into learning some Ansible Automation with NetApp. I bookmarked a link to a blog article that was posted on NetApp.io (The Pub) that guides you through installing Ansible, updating NetApp Modules, understanding Playbooks, creating your first playbook, and lastly a…
Today has been the release of NetApp Ontap 9.6 RC2 and what better way to get familiar with it than to run it up in the lab as a simulator. The simulator is not yet available via the NetApp Support Site, however, it is possible to upgrade an Ontap 9.5 simulator to 9.6 by following…
VMworld 2018 Day 1 What’s New VMworld 2018 Day 1 started off with some exciting announcements from Pat Gelsinger that I want to highlight in this post. Announcements at VMworld 2018 Day 1 VMware Cloud on AWS goodies Amazon Web Services is now available in Sydney, Australia. This allows VMware Cloud on AWS to now…
I recently tweeted out about the awesome boot menu option that NetApp has introduced in Ontap 9.x that saves a tonne of time called – Configure Advanced Drive Partitioning. In this post I will show you what steps to go through when using option 9 – Configure Advanced Drive Partitioning NetApp Configure Advanced Drive Partitioning…
NetApp scsi.cmd.checkCondition Warning A quick blog post to highlight an EMS event that we have encountered after upgrading to Ontap 9.3 whereby the EMS throws up the following warning: scsi.cmd.checkCondition: Disk device xx.xx.x: Check Condition: CDB 0x28:xxxxxxxx:xxxx: Sense Data SCSI:aborted command NetApp Support Read moreDeleting that annoying Netapp Snapmirror SnapshotWe have been working with NetApp…
Since my last twitter post on Netapp Ontap 9.3, a few people have asked me how I’m running the latest version on the simulator without the Ontap 9.3 simulator being out. It’s actually quite simple and I’ll walk you through the steps below. NetApp Ontap 9.3 Simulator First download the Ontap 9.2 Simulator from the…
In this tutorial I will show you how to renewal a Netapp vserver certificate via the command line. Netapp Vserver Certificate Renewal Firstly we want to have a look at the certificate that is attached to our vserver called SVM1 ::> security certificate show -vserver SVM1 -fields expiration,common-name,ca,serial Read moreDeleting that annoying Netapp Snapmirror Snapshot…
We have come across a very bizarre issue whereby front-end data throughput to a Netapp Altavault appliance randomly reduces until the services have restarted. It took about a month of troubleshooting to pinpoint the issue with Netapp Support, which finally came down to disabling TOE (TCP Offload Engine) settings on the Altavault. The Netapp Altavault…
In this video tutorial, I dive into my lab and guide you through the steps involved to successfully migrate a Microsoft SQL cluster from a Netapp 7-Mode system to Clustered Data Ontap, utilizing the Netapp 7-Mode Transition Tool. I have 2 Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 servers configured with Microsoft SQL clustering. Each server is connected…
I was looking through a bunch of syslog messages for our c-mode systems the other day and came across a repeated message which was: csm.sessionFailed:warning It turns out this is Bug ID 987327 which has the following description and goes on to explain that this message can be ignored: Read moreDeleting that annoying Netapp Snapmirror SnapshotCluster Session…
One of the buzz words around Netapp Ontap 9 is the new feature of data compaction. Working along side other storage efficiency mechanisms such as dedupe and compression, data compaction is able to further reduce your data foot print. How does Netapp Data Compaction Work Data Compaction is an inline process which takes I/O’s that would…
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…
If you have been working with Netapp Clustered Data Ontap for a while now you would no doubt have performed quite a few volume moves. However one limitation of the volume move command was that you couldn’t move the volume between storage virtual machines (SVM’s) Let’s Welcome the Volume Rehost Feature of Ontap 9 Starting…
If you are taking non-zeroed disks from a later version of Netapp Data Ontap and placing them into a system running an earlier version of Data Ontap you may experience the following warning, error and critical messages in the log: WARNING monitor.globalStatus.nonCritical: Disk on adapter 0b, shelf 28, bay 1, label version. Disk on adapter…