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 15:08:08 -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