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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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GETATTR issues with linux and netapp

We're having an issue with our linux systems connecting to our netapp via NFS. The read/write IOPS are only around 1000/s but the GETATTR calls are almost 10,000! I found this bug but it says, it was fixed in kernel-2.6.18-92.el5 and we are on…
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Netapp Filer - can I resize an aggregrate?

Data Ontap 7.2 Can I resize an aggregate on the fly and add the freed up space to a different aggregate? I have an aggregate that is low on space and another that has plenty and need to balance the two out.
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Does NetApp providing tooling to export a WAFL export snapshots to a file?

With the open source ZFS file systm, an exact copy/snapshot can be produced using zfs snapshot. This includes file-system level optimizations like deduplication. Further you can send these to a remote server that's listening with zfs receive using…
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decipher acronyms for Netapp disk shelf configuration options

I want to know what is the meaning of -C and QS to understand the difference between these two disk shelf configurations: DSK SHLF,24x450GB,15K,3Gb SAS,IOM3,-C,R5 DSK SHLF,24x450GB,15K,3Gb SAS,IOM3,QS,R5 I've had no luck searching for the key to…
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NFS mounted on windows 7 authentication headache

I've got a NFS share on a Netapp and a laptop running windows 7 enterprise that needs to mount the volume. I've installed all the NFS services on windows 7, and am able to mount and browse the drive. The problem is that I don't have access to modify…
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Can I get "disk utilization" from a NetApp filer via SNMP?

On a NetApp filer's command line I'm running "sysstat -u" to show disk utilization, (actually the utilization of the single busiest disk). By disk utilization, I mean "percent of time the disk is busy", not "how much space on the disk is being used…
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hardware for bulding unified storage solution using nexentastor

looking to build a box for holding 5 to 8 TB of storage using nexentastor OS. without using commercial solutions like netapp. my current list is: Intel Xeon 8GB of RAM RAID controller with 256MB cache what to choose for disks? can any sigle server…
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smbclient NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME with server OS SpinStream2

I'm trying to use Samba smbclient to connect to a file server managed by my technology partner, and I'm consistently getting this error message about tree connect failed. The exact details have been anonymized. $ smbclient -W DOMAIN -U USER…
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HA configuration for KVM Guest on iSCSI shared storage

My requirement is to provide HA to a Zimbra Server. We want Zimbra files to be installed in a Netapp SAN which is providing around 5.7 TB as a SAN iSCI Drive. Since Netapp comes in with Dual Controller and stable performance, we are unlikely to have…
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Selective file permission errors on NFS mounted volumes

I have two Red Hat 7 clients (one is RHEL, one is CentOS) NFS mounting a directory from a NetApp server. The RHEL client mounts the volume read-write, whereas the CentOS client mounts the volume read-only. At the mount level, nothing appears to be…
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SSD errors under NetApp E-Series 5424

We're having some weird issues with our Storage (netapp e-series 5425) and a bunch of SSDs. Technically they work fine, we can do all operations on it, whatever runs on it runs fine, but we keep getting these messages in the log (for all…
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Netapp ONTAP 7.3 - Upgrade gotchas?

So ONTAP 7.3.2 just became GD. Has anyone taken the plunge -- GA or GD alike? What platform are you running? What are your licensed features -- NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, FC, Multistore, API, etc? Any gotchas to report from in-the-field?
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'SMB direct' disable on Windows 10 implications

Dear Storage/Windows experts, Here's the environment. Our users are using Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 to connect to group/project shares on NetApp (Only SMBv1 enabled). Users home drive/profiles are also on NetApp. We are migrating to…
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AIX SMS Menu + Netapp Multipath cause BOS migration issues

I'm performing an AIX migration from 7.1 to 7.2 using the DVD Iso on a VIOS Virtual Library. At the point the migration starts, it fails with the following message: 0516-1775 varyonvg: Physical volumes hdisk0 and hdisk4 have identical PVIDs…
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VMware with 1gbs network interface with NFS in Netapp with 10gpbs and Control Flow

I read this question. I have only 2 VMware esx with 2x1gbs interfaces each and netapp with 4x10gbs interfaces. It is configured auto negociate with the switch. But the switch drops frames. Do I need enable full Control Flow between all interfaces ?…
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