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Netapp makes storage: primarily, their Data ONTAP series which does network attached and block storage. Since they acquired Engenio, they also sell block-only devices.

NetApp filers are a popular model of network attached storage (NAS) device. NetApp also sell software products catering to the storage reporting and monitoring market niche.

A NetApp filer is a standalone appliance which runs an operating system called ONTAP, and has it's own specialist command set, and is loosely based on BSD. Their primary service offering are for network storage, via CIFS and NFS.

They've also diversified into direct attached storage via iSCSI and FCoE.

Filers are typically configured with a custom variant of RAID-4, that NetApp call RAID-DP. Essentially RAID-4 with a second parity drive.

1 or more RAID groups are turned into an aggregate - a pool of storage.

Volume are created within an aggregate, and may be thin provisioned or deduplicated.*

Qtrees are created within volumes a top level - they're quotaed directory structures. (Enforcing a quota is optional - qtrees merely enable the quota tracking mechanism).

  • Filers deduplicate at volume level, because this allows volumes to be treated as standalone containers for the purposes of migration around a cluster.
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Drive not working with LSI controller

I'm trying to use a NETAPP X412 drive (15K rpm 600GB) with LSI 9240-8i. The problem is that the drive shows up as 0 KB big, and attempting to set the drive to good fails with the error message "Operation not allowed." Other drives on the controller…
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Powershell - checking if a file is a Linux symbolic link

I'm migrating a NetApp NTFS based filesystem. It is mounted on both Windows and Linux boxes. My validation script in Powershell is walking the file system and doing various checks that the source and target are the same. It checks timestamps and…
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What does it mean for "OWNER CREATOR" to be the owner of a folder?

I see folders with an owner of "OWNER CREATOR" and group of "DOMAIN\Domain Users". When I copy these files, the ownership is being transferred to me. That is not the behavior I want. However, what does it mean for a folder to have an owner of…
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Why is my data not showing up on a shared vmdk on another VM?

Configuration: Netapp (SAN) providing a 5GB FC LUN to VMware hosts (datastore). (2) Server 2012R2 datacenter VMs configured with a 5GB shared vmdk using paravirtual SCSI controller with SCSI Bus sharing set to "Physical" for hosting…
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cifs mount alternately sends wrong passwd

short version: the NETAPP logs show that from our client (debian 8.7, cifs=2:6.4-1) machine the login fails alternatively. I.e. it is like one time it sends the good password, and then some wrong password, then again the good one, then again the…
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Why NetApp snapshot spill happen?

I am confused about what Snapshot Copy Reserve actually stores. From what I understand, a snapshot copy is a copy of pointers which points to blocks on disk which were occupied by a file at some point in time. File blocks are stored on volume and…
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NetApp Filer queue length?

Is there a way to determine how many transactions are pending in the filer? How many words are required to ask this question before Post button will work? I'll try another sentence.
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linux + how to know the time details from df command

is it possible to know when partition was mounted from storage volume? for example latly we know about that netapp19:/volume/orsdcp_nfs was mounted on /oraT but how to know when? ( regarding that we not have info from history command ) 14:28:01…
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NFS mount in Windows - can't copy files with 600 permissions

I have a Netapp with some NFS exports for VMware storage. I want to mount the snapshots on a Windows 2012 R2 server in order to copy all of the virtual machine files to tape. I can mount the share just fine, but I can only copy some of the files. …
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How to add ssh publickey to Clustered NetApp for Active Directory user?

I am trying to load my ssh public key on a netapp instace but it seems that it does not allow me to add my key. lcy2-dosvm01::security login publickey> load-from-uri -uri http://pastebin.com/raw.phpi=mgB0Vq3x -username sorins Error: command failed:…
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NetApp Performance Archiver failed to close file

I have a newly configured (not by me) NetApp FAS-2040 running OnTAP 8.0.2. It's spewing a log message every 15 seconds: [perf.archive.file.close.fail:warning]: Performance archiver failed to close file:…
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When it makes sense not to setup quota on NetApp volumes?

As I got a NetApp that was configured by somebody else I observed that all volumes do have quotas on them and due to this it seems that very often we end-up with problems because someone forgets to update the quota when it does resize a volume. To…
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1GBit copy throughput, protocol independent

I've a question which bothers me since quite some time now. I have several environments and servers. All of them are connected to 1 Gbit ethernet swiches (e.g. Cisco 3560). My understanding is, that a 1 Gbit link should provide 125Mbyte/s - of…
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Aggregate resize

I'm a newbie in Netapp and I would like to know how to reset aggr0 to factory settings without losing all the configurations I've already made. Regards.
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NetApp FAS 3020c, volume is full

We've noticed a problem with one of our volumes on netapp filer. It seems that volume is full, NetApp informs, that volume is using or reserving 100% of space (0% of inodes) - this is shown as the warning. Problem is, it does not looks this…
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