Mailing List Archive by Gossamer Threads http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/ en-us (c) Gossamer Threads Inc. All rights reserved. 08 Nov 2009 13:02:44 -0800 120 75 23 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/ http://www.gossamer-threads.com/images/lists/rss_logo.jpg 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 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 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! 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OnTap Special Offer: NetApp Hardware Universe Poster ======================================= 02 Oct 2009 14:29:28 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10361 Hi all, Does anyone know what the bug number that is fixed in OnTap 7.3.x so that CommVault 7.x will work properly with stubs to restore files which 02 Oct 2009 11:58:14 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10360 On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Jeff Mohler wrote: > Qtree stats are ONLY reads and writes. > > No metadata ops (readdir, etc, etc, etc...wafl IO..etc..etc.etc.. 02 Oct 2009 10:56:30 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10359 So, I'm comparing the /etc/messages lines that report ops: Fri Oct 2 03:00:00 EDT [XXXXXX: kern.uptime.filer:info]: 3:00am up 38 days, 19:46 40973 02 Oct 2009 10:28:31 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10358 Hi All Does anyone know about CIFS Standard Pool, recently we got a message on the filer that CIFS Standard pool was full and new requests could not 02 Oct 2009 09:39:17 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10357 Hey Toasters, We're experiencing problems in our Snapmanager environment: Since our eMail team changed the mailrelay hosts, we are not able to send 02 Oct 2009 05:01:03 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10356 It's a great thing to see that a "simple" question on a common issue could push so many answers! Great community this one! Thanks, Da: Maxwell Reid 02 Oct 2009 01:00:36 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10355 Hi Romeo, I think everyone would be interested in the updated version! ~Max On Oct 1, 2009, at 8:54 PM, Romeo Theriault wrote: > Is there some t 01 Oct 2009 22:16:40 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10354 > > Is there some tool that can let me understand which volume is under stress > and in case move it on the other head? > I wrote a tool called "topv 01 Oct 2009 20:54:44 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10353 Good question! I'll investigate Da: Jeff Mohler [mailto:speedtoys.racing@gmail.com] Inviato: giovedì 1 ottobre 2009 19.04 A: Milazzo Giacomo Cc: toa 01 Oct 2009 10:06:02 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10352 Show stats will let you look at per volume IO. stats show -i 15 -e volume:(volumes):(nfs) Replace volumes with something that matches all the vol 01 Oct 2009 09:00:15 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10351 Thanks for info, for now. I've discovered a tool I didn't know. LogicMonitor seems really a good tool. Together with Operation Manager I remember tha 01 Oct 2009 08:58:49 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10350 Hi all, From some days the CPU of a 3020C reaches 100% slowing down all processes. Maybe some area of a 3020HA is stressed on I/O. There's a VMware 01 Oct 2009 08:28:05 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10349 Hello and Thank you! The team that I walk for, Rich's Road Crew, finished in high spirits yesterday. Last year there were 20 walkers on the team an 14 Sep 2009 10:15:37 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10348 Sounds like whatever user-defined script you have is failing sometimes? Or perhaps it's a VMWare tools issue. We've been able to track our issue down 14 Sep 2009 09:51:21 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10347 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ken Williams wrote: > I'm looking for some experiences people out there may have with SMVI > with NetAp 14 Sep 2009 07:16:44 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10346 MultiStore is the correct solution. Although just as a side commentary, if you really can't trust your admins, you've got security problems far beyon 11 Sep 2009 10:40:31 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10345 Hello all, thanks for the replies! Reeves, Gary wrote: > Have a look here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832161 > Yes, I have read that article 10 Sep 2009 12:52:44 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10344 Hi Roy, Have a look here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832161 The fact the client is advertising an agent of " Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir" shows 10 Sep 2009 10:09:21 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10343 Have you tried the mapping with a fully qualified domain name? -----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@m 10 Sep 2009 09:51:04 -0800 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/netapp/toasters/10342