Mailing List Archive by Gossamer Threads http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/ en-us (c) Gossamer Threads Inc. All rights reserved. 24 Nov 2009 09:04:54 -0800 120 75 23 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/ http://www.gossamer-threads.com/images/lists/rss_logo.jpg Now that's why I like toasters. -----Original Message----- From: Brad Reger [mailto:reger@netapp.com] Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 5:33 PM To: Le 23 Nov 2009 17:48:43 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10485 We in Engineering think this is fine and works. It's probably obvious but: 1. observe software environmental monitoring to verify both PSUs are up an 23 Nov 2009 14:32:59 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10484 Here are couple of things to check: 1. Make sure the SFR session you created is still active and not expired. You can check it from Restore GUI page. 23 Nov 2009 14:03:23 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10483 ok, scratching my head here... I just upgraded the new SMVI 2.0 with file level restore.. HURAYY.. Its only been a year, but I guess you cant rush pe 23 Nov 2009 13:37:36 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10482 It works. I've done it. Gotta check on support. -----Original Message----- From: Page, Jeremy <jeremy.page@gilbarco.com> Sent: Monday, November 23, 23 Nov 2009 13:20:40 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10481 Let us know if it works :-) ________________________________ From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of 23 Nov 2009 12:40:12 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10480 My educated guess is that you can do this safely and for as long as you wish. The power supplies are pretty much independent of one another, and th 23 Nov 2009 12:28:12 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10479 ..shouldn't be a problem. The low-side of the Power Supply is the same for both high-side voltages. So, assuming you're plugging into a 208V power s 23 Nov 2009 12:25:00 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10478 Well, they are auto-ranging power supplies. It should work. I was always told it is fine for a very short while, just don't bet the bank on leaving it 23 Nov 2009 12:09:35 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10477 I certainly would not be brave enough to try that. Not sure what having 208 on one side and 110 on the other would do, but seems like a potential for 23 Nov 2009 11:59:28 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10476 Our filers and shelves are currently on 110v power. We'd like to switch to 208v, possibly without downtime. I'm thinking of moving each power supply 23 Nov 2009 11:31:56 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10475 I have done this before, but you may run into arp issues. I am not sure which MAC the VIF will take on. You may have to delete rarp caches in switches 23 Nov 2009 04:43:22 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10474 Hey Steven On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 13:19, Steve Losen <scl@sasha.acc.virginia.edu> wrote: > > I am going to create a vif using two interfaces (e0a an 23 Nov 2009 04:31:58 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10473 I am going to create a vif using two interfaces (e0a and e0c). The IP address of e0a is going to be the IP for the vif, e0c is not in use. I was hop 23 Nov 2009 04:19:26 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10472 Very understandable. What I am looking for is if there is any research or documents available on this issue? -----Original Message----- From: J 16 Nov 2009 22:18:30 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10471 Hi all, IHAC who is looking for stats which could point to industry standards mentioning the head counts (engineers) required per amount of storage ( 16 Nov 2009 21:26:06 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10470 I can understand wanting to make your backup up method as reliable as possible but for most organizations I suspect that crash consistent backups meet 13 Nov 2009 05:10:41 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10469 You could open a case and ask for it to be linked to "Bug" number 315117. It has only one customer attached to it yet (not TEAC), and as an RFE may n 13 Nov 2009 02:34:15 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10468 We use it, and due it generally works OK. However, getting quieced VMs isn't as straight forward as you'd hope (especially for highly used VMs). N 13 Nov 2009 02:23:10 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10467 Hi Please take a look at TR 3737 . This is the best practices guide for SMVI 1.0. But this should get you started on some of the best practices for 12 Nov 2009 20:46:52 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10466 Hi all, Now our controller upgrade woes have been sorted I can start to play with the new stuff on our 2050. One of those is SMVI. Unfortunately as 12 Nov 2009 13:09:31 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10465 Sounds like an RFE for me. Richard D Borders CPR Escalations Engineer RTP, North Carolina USA - NetApp, Inc. Email: rborders@netapp.com Phone:(919) 4 12 Nov 2009 07:57:07 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10464 Leimann> Perhaps a silly question, but if "you" are doing the throttle Leimann> change, then why are you not logging that yourself for future Leimann> 12 Nov 2009 07:34:28 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10463 Perhaps a silly question, but if "you" are doing the throttle change, then why are you not logging that yourself for future reference ? Script the thi 12 Nov 2009 07:26:54 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10462 That only works if the snapmirror was scheduled. If it was started manually (or a scheduled snapmirror was aborted and restarted manually) I don't kn 09 Nov 2009 16:58:52 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10448 That only works if the snapmirror was scheduled. If it was started manually (or a scheduled snapmirror was aborted and restarted manually) I don't kn 09 Nov 2009 16:58:52 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10453 That only works if the snapmirror was scheduled. If it was started manually (or a scheduled snapmirror was aborted and restarted manually) I don't kn 09 Nov 2009 16:58:52 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10458 That only works if the snapmirror was scheduled. If it was started manually (or a scheduled snapmirror was aborted and restarted manually) I don't kn 09 Nov 2009 16:58:52 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10457 So based on that KB article doing the following from the command line should show what the throttle is set for: NetApp:> rdfile /etc/snapmirror.conf 09 Nov 2009 16:35:56 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10447 So based on that KB article doing the following from the command line should show what the throttle is set for: NetApp:> rdfile /etc/snapmirror.conf 09 Nov 2009 16:35:56 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10449 So based on that KB article doing the following from the command line should show what the throttle is set for: NetApp:> rdfile /etc/snapmirror.conf 09 Nov 2009 16:35:56 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10450 So based on that KB article doing the following from the command line should show what the throttle is set for: NetApp:> rdfile /etc/snapmirror.conf 09 Nov 2009 16:35:56 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10451 So based on that KB article doing the following from the command line should show what the throttle is set for: NetApp:> rdfile /etc/snapmirror.conf 09 Nov 2009 16:35:56 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10452 Not exactly your specific question, but this will take you there. How to remove SnapMirror throttling on the fly: https://now.netapp.com/Knowledgebas 09 Nov 2009 14:09:23 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10446 >>>>> "John" == John Stoffel <john.stoffel@taec.toshiba.com> writes: John> Guys, John> Does anyone know how to determine what the current setting of 09 Nov 2009 14:09:12 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10445 Guys, Does anyone know how to determine what the current setting of 'snapmirror throttle N destination' actually is? I've tried looking at the outpu 09 Nov 2009 12:47:57 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10444 Guys, Does anyone know how to determine what the current setting of 'snapmirror throttle N destination' actually is? I've tried looking at the outpu 09 Nov 2009 12:47:57 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10454 Guys, Does anyone know how to determine what the current setting of 'snapmirror throttle N destination' actually is? I've tried looking at the outpu 09 Nov 2009 12:47:57 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10455 Guys, Does anyone know how to determine what the current setting of 'snapmirror throttle N destination' actually is? I've tried looking at the outpu 09 Nov 2009 12:47:57 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10456 Guys, Does anyone know how to determine what the current setting of 'snapmirror throttle N destination' actually is? I've tried looking at the outpu 09 Nov 2009 12:47:57 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10460 Thanks Charles, Olaf from Netapp set me on the right track yesterday: I used a combination of these articles to set me on the right track http://co 09 Nov 2009 09:26:14 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10443 Sounds to me like the NTFS volume inside the LUN is set to Hidden and/or Readonly. There's an old Veritas bug that would cause this. Look for a util 09 Nov 2009 07:47:53 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10442 Hi, Another question - I have a datawarehouse box - has 4 luns -> SD 6.1 and Server 2k8 both 64bit. I can't seem to reconnect the LUN's using the SD 07 Nov 2009 18:26:48 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10441 > I believe that happens if you first bring the aggregates online in maintenance mode, > rather than in normal mode. Maintenance mode will strip all 07 Nov 2009 14:01:58 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10440 I believe that happens if you first bring the aggregates online in maintenance mode, rather than in normal mode. Maintenance mode will strip all the 07 Nov 2009 10:14:49 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10439 Hi Peter, That sounds fairly plausible - the upgrade itself was performed by a vendor and the upgrade steps we used in our change control look like t 07 Nov 2009 09:57:55 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10438 It sounds to me like the root volume from the factory was used and the setup routine was run, rather than removing the new drives, connecting the old 07 Nov 2009 09:23:30 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10437 Hi all, Hoping you can save me some legwork - We've upgraded our 270c to a 2050ha - data looks good. We did run into the lun signaturing issue with 07 Nov 2009 01:40:04 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10436 If you don't get VMWare snapshots in your SMVI process then your backups would be inconsistent. So conceptually the restore would be akin to a tradit 04 Nov 2009 08:47:29 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10435 If you don't get VMWare snapshots in your SMVI process then your backups would be inconsistent. So conceptually the restore would be akin to a tradit 04 Nov 2009 08:47:29 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10461 Thanks for all your answers... We made some tests yesterday with esx4 and cloning and snapshotting... It seems that the challenge is not because of 04 Nov 2009 00:59:37 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10434 Data ONTap version should read 7.3.1.1p7. -----Original Message----- From: Ken Williams Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 9:21 AM To: 'Steffen Kamme 03 Nov 2009 09:52:05 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10433 Yes, we have the same issue. Came down to a few things: 1. Update to 7.3.2p7. There are algorithm changes to WAFL that help with VMFS/VMDK reading/w 03 Nov 2009 09:21:18 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10432 Crud. Make sure the partition offset/4096 is an integer, not even. Sorry. And I'm not too certain about the 4096 #, read the TR :) -----Original Mes 03 Nov 2009 07:42:31 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10431 Crud. Make sure the partition offset/4096 is an integer, not even. Sorry. And I'm not too certain about the 4096 #, read the TR :) -----Original Mes 03 Nov 2009 07:42:31 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10459 If your VMs are Windows it's relatively simple to do a WMI scan against them for the partition offset and then divide by 4096 (?) and make sure it's a 03 Nov 2009 07:38:09 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10430 This is very commonly an alignment issue. Snapshots exacerbate the already intense I/O caused by misalignment. Essentially, the existence of VMware 03 Nov 2009 07:26:10 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10429 Hi there, We have the same issue with SMVI 2.0 on nfs datastores... on some VMs we get the following error: Cannot create a quiesced snapshot becaus 03 Nov 2009 06:41:04 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10428 Hi Everyone, First off I'd like to thank everyone whom wrote back to me privately with some suggestions on how to fix this issue. (Original question a 01 Nov 2009 23:34:56 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10427 I wrote a simple little perl script with automates the process of changing the serial numbers on the luns back to their pre-head upgrade serials, whic 30 Oct 2009 03:09:26 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10426 Steffen, Here is something I use quite ofter from a unix box. However this is split per volume. If you want the whole system output you need to sdo 29 Oct 2009 19:13:04 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10425 There's no specific counter for bytes / sec per protocol in priv set diag. For iops and latency's and size histograms, but nothing specific. -Blake 29 Oct 2009 14:13:57 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10424 I don't see a counter for what you are looking for in 7.3.1.1, but you could add up all the volume stats for nfs_read_data and nfs_write_data and cifs 29 Oct 2009 10:12:21 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10423 Stats show with the -e will let you use expression matching. stats show -i 15 -e volume:(nfs|vmware:shares):(nfs) Would report all of the NFS 29 Oct 2009 10:01:33 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10422 Hi there, is there a possibility to get the read / write throughput in kilobyte per protocol (separated NFS / CIFS) on a filer? I found only the ope 29 Oct 2009 09:37:57 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10421 Cheers Peter - this looks spot on. I'll make sure this makes its way into the implementation plan. Raj. On 10/29/09, Learmonth, Peter <Peter.Learmo 28 Oct 2009 23:01:09 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10420 Hi Raj I'd like to refer you to NOW KB33990 (which I wrote). It covers this scenario pretty thoroughly. https://now.netapp.com/Knowledgebase/solutio 28 Oct 2009 22:29:16 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10419 Hi all, We're planning to upgrade our controller (a 270c to a 2050ha) - my understanding is the iSCSI LUN's will retain their identity (ie the existi 28 Oct 2009 20:58:49 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10418 Steffen Kammerer-2 wrote: > > I mean the runtime in hours the disks are running since they are in use... > This is the runtime since they are in us 27 Oct 2009 01:56:17 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10417 I mean the runtime in hours the disks are running since they are in use... -----Original Message----- From: lists@up-south.com [mailto:lists@up-sou 27 Oct 2009 01:21:54 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10416 Steffen Kammerer-2 wrote: > > Hi there, > > is there a possibility to read-out the overall runtime of disks in a > NetApp shelf? > > Regards, > > 27 Oct 2009 01:15:58 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10415 Hi there, is there a possibility to read-out the overall runtime of disks in a NetApp shelf? Regards, Steffen 27 Oct 2009 00:15:36 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10414 Hello, We have a VMware environment with nfs as the transport protocol. What I'm testing out is snapvaulting the vmware datastores to another filer an 22 Oct 2009 07:32:11 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10413 I've ran for a couple of week Windows with SD 4.1 on a 7.3.x just upgraded filer. No issues, but, we know, they're out of the matrix. Anyway, exactl 21 Oct 2009 04:12:25 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10412 I've been working with NetApp for 12 years now. We are a small shop with about 20 filers distributed all over the world. And I'm through ups and downs 20 Oct 2009 23:04:20 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10411 I agree with Matt. USUALLY we get outstanding support from NA. We also track people we work with and keep an informal ranking system. +5=walks on wa 20 Oct 2009 16:38:15 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10410 Haven't had issues with netapp support.... I've asked for RMA's simply to troubleshoot a problem (Is it esh4, shelf, or SFP as an example) and the 20 Oct 2009 16:18:27 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10409 I'm a big netapp fan - I think the tech is great and I've worked with them on and off for years. I think the one thing that netapp support does req 20 Oct 2009 15:59:30 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10408 We're a small shop a couple of FAS 3020's doing basic, NFS, CIFS, Snapdrive/SnapManager For SQL and Snapmirror. We are up for our contract renewal so 20 Oct 2009 15:23:58 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10407 Delete Sent from my iPhone On Oct 19, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Kevin Davis <kdavis@mathworks.com> wrote: As someone who's run 10s of thousands of email 19 Oct 2009 19:03:02 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10406 Publicly accessible: NetApp and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 Storage Best Practices http://www.netapp.com/us/library/technical-reports/tr-3428.htm 19 Oct 2009 11:49:37 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10405 Howdy all, I'm new to the ESX arena and have been consuming CentOS instances on several ESX servers in house. These CentOS instances are an applianc 19 Oct 2009 11:25:17 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10404 > As someone who's run 10s of thousands of email systems, and spent a number of > years working on preventing spam- this was pretty low on the stupid 19 Oct 2009 09:18:22 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10403 Hi all, We've got some Windows Boxes running SnapDrive 4.1 (not sure about Windows OS, but mostly Windows Server 2003 I think) and we're currently us 19 Oct 2009 07:29:51 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10402 yeah it's there, but maybe in a different format then you were expecting? Domain Utilization of Shared Domains (per second) 15 Oct 2009 17:13:47 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10401 I'm looking at the statit output on a sim running 7.3.1 and I'm not seeing the Multiprocessor statistics that includes domain info - could anyone who' 15 Oct 2009 14:26:50 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10400 The ONTAP 7.3 release family includes a new option for the reallocate command, the '-p' option. With this option, volumes containing snapshots can be 12 Oct 2009 14:03:04 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10399 according to netapp, i can not do a reallocate if there are underlying snapshots, the issue is that the snapshots are for a large (3TB) oracle db, and 12 Oct 2009 13:20:56 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10398 Thanks for all the advice - thanks to Romeo Theriaults awesome tool I'll run some stats over time and see how things look. I'll probably give Logicmo 06 Oct 2009 13:14:13 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10397 > > What are people generally doing ? > I haven't done any performance testing but I've only used mysql in a VM a few times, one was a RHEL4 box and 06 Oct 2009 02:31:27 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10396 Hi, I am wondering if a lot of people out there are running VMware virtualized Linux MySQL machines on NetApp storage ? Any thoughts on how to config 05 Oct 2009 07:16:25 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10395 > > I think everyone would be interested in the updated version! > Ok, I've put up the newer version of topvol which allows you to optionally filter 05 Oct 2009 01:28:12 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10394 As a matter of interest how much latency is to much (I know, how many angels can you fit on a pinhead) ? We've had a few DBA types come and comment o 04 Oct 2009 21:58:48 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10393 > > I think everyone would be interested in the updated version! > Great! Ok, I'll put up the version that can also filter on aggregates on Monday. I 03 Oct 2009 00:35:36 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10392 As someone who's run 10s of thousands of email systems, and spent a number of years working on preventing spam- this was pretty low on the stupid 02 Oct 2009 21:04:57 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10391 the things that go rong when you're maintaining mailing lists. it's only a few wasted electrons, dave, and those aren't an endangered species. ...lo 02 Oct 2009 18:23:22 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10390 doh! Reminds me of the old saying "To Err is Human, It takes automation to really screw things up.." apologies in advance for top quoting! ~Max 02 Oct 2009 18:07:27 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10389 > Is it just me, or did Netapp really lose more than half of their email > clue the last few years? I can't comment on our "percent email clue", but 02 Oct 2009 16:03:40 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10387 On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 05:35:12PM -0400, NetApp wrote: > Dear Toasters, > Dear Toasters, > Dear Toasters, > Dear Toasters, > Dear Toasters, > > Than 02 Oct 2009 15:41:38 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10371 I’m sorry about this folks. This is a message that is only supposed to go to people as the OPT IN to our Tech OnTap mailing list. It shouldn’t go 02 Oct 2009 15:31:09 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10370