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Netapp and Veeam – Combining Snapmirror and Snapvault
I have been trying out a few different configurations in my lab with a Netapp and Veeam setup running snapmirror and snapvault on the same volume. Traditional if you wish to utilize offsite backups you...
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VMware vCenter 5.5 Update 2 upgrade to Update 3b Woes
I came across a few issues upgrading a site from vCenter 5.5 update 2 up to update 3b. I’m writing this article in the hope that if you run into the same problem it will save you hours of...
View ArticleNetapp Unified Manager Upgrade 6.3 RC1 to 6.3 GA Invalid ISO
There is currently a small issue when trying to upgrade from Netapp Unified Manager 6.3 RC1 to 6.3 GA, where by at the beginning of the upgrade the wizard cannot find the CDROM and displays: Invalid...
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Netapp Announces General Availability of Data Ontap 8.3.2
This week Netapp has announced the general availability of Data Ontap 8.3.2 Some of the added features of Data Ontap 8.3.2 are: Netapp Data Ontap 8.3.2 Features Inline Deduplication MetroCluster...
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Netapp Unified Manager 6.4RC1 and Performance Manager 2.1RC1
Last week Netapp released the latest Unified Manager and Performance manager. The latest release ties the 2 products closer than ever with the new Full Integration option (Single pane of glass), which...
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Netapp Performance Manager 2.1RC1 and vSphere 5.5 install error
There is an issue installing Netapp Performance Manager 2.1RC1 on VMware vSphere 5.5 where by the network settings do not get applied during the install wizard. The error you will see is: Common Agent:...
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Netapp Tech Ontap Podcast
If you haven’t listened or subscribed to the Netapp Tech Ontap Podcast, I highly recommend it. It’s a great way to stay on top of the latest technology and innovation from Netapp. The hosts are:...
View ArticleNetapp Disk Bad Label Version
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...
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Cisco Nexus 9K are not FCoE NPIV core switches
The Cisco Nexus 9K’s have been out for a little while now, however it has only been recently that the support for FCoE have come to these switches. However, the support for FCoE is only as an NPV edge...
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Netapp Ontap 9 Volume Rehost
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...
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Netapp Ontap 9 Performance Comparison
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...
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Netapp Ontap 9 Data Compaction
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...
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Netapp 7MTT iSCSI LUN Migration Example
The Netapp 7MTT software helps you easily migrate from Data Ontap 7-Mode to Clustered Data Ontap via an easy to use step-by-step wizard. In this tutorial we will walk through migrating an iSCSI lun...
View ArticleFileManager.makeDirectory VMware vCenter Error
The other day I was working on a customer VMware vCenter server along with some Netapp storage. The storage being NFS mounted to each ESXi server. I noticed that the datastore appeared to be read only,...
View ArticleNetapp csm.sessionFailed:warning
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...
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How to migrate an SQL Cluster from Netapp 7-mode to c-mode
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...
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Netapp Altavault Data Throughput Reduces Randomly
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...
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Veeam the given key was not present in the dictionary
I came across this error message the other day when configuring a Veeam Replication job with separate virtual networks, which displayed “The given key was not present in the dictionary” The error...
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The vSphere server with UUID was not found on this cloud instance
I was creating some powercli scripts to help import virtual machines from vcenter into vcloud director the other day, when I came across this error on the import-civapp cmdlet: PowerCLI import-civapp...
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The vSphere server with UUID was not found on this cloud instance
I was creating some powercli scripts to help import virtual machines from vcenter into vcloud director the other day, when I came across this error on the import-civapp cmdlet: PowerCLI import-civapp...
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