Disk assignment
I have a 8200 HA cluster running ONTAP 9.1P7 at initial setup. We have three shelves all in the same loop attached to the system. During setup, I have noticed and expected that each controller took...
View ArticleRaid group sizes
1. What is the impact of changing the Raid Group size? (free space, performance, restriping, etc..)2. Is it Doable on production 7-mode as well as cDOT systems ?3. Right after growing the aggregate by...
View Article.snapshot directory not visible in Windows Explorer, but it is in Command Prompt
I have been seeing sometihng strange in some of our clusters ever since we moved into the OnTap 9.x versions. From a Windows 8+ or Server 2012+ machine, we are no longer able to navigate to the...
View ArticleHigh data modification problem with snapmirror fills the volume / LUN
Hello everyone, we have a problem with the volumes that have snapmirror activated. In normal operation, everything works well, there is self-growth, ... etc.But when large modifications or high data...
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Very slow reclaim of space in volume
Hi all - If someone could help with this question would be awesome.Here's our setup.FAS3220 running 8.2.3p2 7-ModeWe have Exchange 2010 running on a Windows 2012 (non-R2) virtual machine on ESXi 5.5The...
View ArticleMonitoring an ONTAP cluster with SNMP
We've recently acquired a NetApp ONTAP 9.3 FAS Hybrid system that we are trying to monitor with our Nagios monitoring system. SNMP looks like the easiest way to do this. We've managed to enable SNMP on...
View ArticleMultiple EMS Events : None of the LSA servers configured for Vserver are...
I see multiple EMS events logged into cluster from multiple vservers. Any way we can troubleshoot this issue.Any direction is appreciated. Event:secd.lsa.noServers: None of the LSA servers configured...
View ArticleProblems with an _ in the DNS name with OnTap 9.3
I have a AFF system running OnTap 9.3P1 and am seeing a strange issue. If we have a DNS entry for the cluster mgmt interface ,that contains an "_" character, I recieve the following error when trying...
View ArticleTechnical deepdive documentation on Snapshot Technology
Dear all, Does anyone know if there is any technical deep dive documentation on snapshot technology in Ontap Cluster Mode (we're running 9.1P10)? We need a detailed understanding of what happens at the...
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Perfstat 8.4 hang during gethering data.
Hi. I run perfstat8 (GUI, CMD, Linux CLI) at 9.0P2 AFF8080 system. but everytimes perfstat hang during on command "netstat -BMn" , one or two times it (netstat -BMn) passed well but two or three times...
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Epsilon and root move from an aggregate to anoter
Hi everybody, past friday during an operation given as NDO we've had a service interruption on NAS component.We had to move the root aggregate from some old disks to new ones and we've literally...
View ArticleOntap Select- ESXi host not discovered while creating cluster
Hi All, I have deployed the Ontap Select 9.3 in our setup. assigned the IP details to ontap select. I can able to access the ontap select administrator console from web client. As I added the ESXi...
View Articlerecocovery of a deleted volume 7m
Can we able to recover Volumes from netapp 7M post a deletion (no snap ,no snapmirror ) Any option likve VRQ in 8.3 ?the version is 8.1.X
View ArticleChanging number of disks in the root aggregate
We have a system that is configured as follows: FAS8020, DataONTAP : 8.3.2 P2 HDD size 2.0TB SATA Name Node Type used% Available...
View ArticleConstant changes to OnCommand System Manager disruptive to smooth operations
I'd like to send this to the powers that be in the ONTAP 9.3x product line: Please stop making these drastic changes to OCSM. They are disruptive, annoying, and painful. I like the the tree view on the...
View ArticleiSCSI LUN with same name in one igroup (7mode 8.2.5) Win 2016 Server
Hi Team, I have two iscsi Luns (7mode) in one igroup and both Luns are mapped to the one windows 2016 server. Wed Mar 14 14:51:37 AST [eccnas5:lun.map:info]: LUN /vol/EX91VZ103/ex91vz103/data was...
View ArticleNetapp ifgrp shows "partial" when all the associated ports are UP
Hello All, New netapp 4 node cluster has been setup and all the port are showing as "UP" while I issue "net port show" command. But "ifgrp show" command show "Partial" for some wierd reason. We are...
View ArticleReport showing volumes with NVE enabled??
Good afternoon! Is there a report available that will show all volumes that have NVE enabled in 9.1? I have looked in OCUM and System Manager but I did not see anything. The only thing I have found...
View Article16Tb lun limit windows Ontap 9.3
Hello smart people...I was asked today about creating a lun for windows of 25TB, I know in server 2008 this is the max, but, I am pretty sure windows has increased this in 2012 and 2016. Does anyone...
View ArticleWhere is this IP address coming from?
I opened a support case about this, but it just keeps going around in circles. I recently attempted to download an OnTap update from our internal HTTP server for our AFF8040, and the address that the...
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