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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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NetApp NAS: How to enable encryption?

What are the commands to enable disk encryption on a NetApp NAS, can this be done per disk/array?
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Setting up a NetApp as a simple FC LUN carver

For a particular application, I want to configure a NetApp filer (7-mode) to be as close as possible to an old-fashioned storage subsystem without snapshots or fancy features. vol create vol_ESX -s volume aggr1 1500M vol options vol_ESX nosnap…
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How can I rename and change the IP address of a Netapp Filer?

I have an old Netapp filer that I'm migrating all of the NTFS files off of to a new NAS. I'm going to be setting the new NAS up with the same IP and CIFS server name as the old netapp filer. This part I know how to do. However, short of simply…
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Proper Steps to Shutdown NetApp FAS 3020 with Shelves?

I have a netapp with several shelves that is going to have to be moved. Various servers have NFS mounts from it. What is the proper procedure to shut it down and start it up? I would guess shutting down the servers before the netapp and then the…
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NetApp API to fetch 'df' output

I'm currently fiddling with a project using the ONTAPI (perf stats monitoring sort of thing). What I'm wanting to do is reproduce the information from 'df' and 'df -s'. Doing well so far, because the api 'volume-list-info' seems to have most of the…
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Verify that a NetApp is no longer in use

I'm working on retiring a failing NetApp cluster. It offers iCSCI, NFS, and CIFS volumes to the network. For CIFS, we're fairly under control there. It's a limited set of shares, and there's recent "last modified" filestamps in only a couple of…
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Get NetApp disk shelf serial number using 7-mode CLI

Is it possible to get the serial number of attached disk shelves from the controller CLI? I have 3 DS4246's attached to a FAS8020 7-mode HA pair controller. Maybe I'm staring right at it in the sysconfig -a or disk show -v output? Any help would be…
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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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Netapp incoming error message , HA Group Notification from NTAP01 (FCP PARTNER PATH MISCONFIGURED) ERROR

HA Group Notification from NTAP01 (FCP PARTNER PATH MISCONFIGURED) ERROR sometimes i am getting that error on my cluster netapp storage ? Any ideas about this ?
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NetApp reconfigure aggregate

I have one second-hand NetApp FAS2020, ONTAP 7.3.6, with 12 disks. There is created 1 aggregate (aggr0) and all 12 disks are in this single aggregate (10 data, 1 parity, 1 dparity), no spare disks. There is one volume (vol0) in this aggregate, which…
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load average from netapp filer

i'm currently trying to monitor the 5-min system load average from a netapp filer, via snmp or ontapi apis. currently i'm running a cron job every 5 minutes and calculate the average percent, but i'm wondering if there's a better approach like it's…
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Viewing NetApp cluster NFS shares

I've managed to inherit a NetApp system and could do with some pointers for basic tasks. It looks like we may need to get a consultant in, but I don't see why checking these simple things should be this difficult... First of all the system is…
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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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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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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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