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Ontap Cloud

The latest buzz word is “cloud”. Lets understand the latest offering from netapp on cloud. Netapp leverages their operating system ” ontap” to cloud called ontap cloud.

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Netapp Metrocluster

Its been sometime since I contributed on my blog, thought let me contribute on a topic which I have been thinking for a long time and it finally kicked off. Its all about metrocluster.

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Map LUN serial to LUN paths

 

Many a times we would have to find the lun paths using the lun serial number. At an normal case when we run the lun show -serial command it would not return any lun path info as below

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Cluster switch upgrade on Netapp

Today I would be discussing on how to do a cluster switch firmware upgrade on Netapp. Continue reading by clicking here, there’s more!


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Netapp Ontap Cluster mode upgrade.

Here I am going to discuss on how to do a ontap upgrade for cluster mode with the steps.

 

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LUN resize limitation in Netapp

The lun resize maximum size is limited to initial size of which the lun is created. The following is the table which explains the same.

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Understanding the volume space utilization on Netapp

Recently I had a confusion with regards to the volume space breakup. where I was not able to find how much space I have on the volume for the data or snapshot to grow. May be you will end in a similar situation and this explanation helps.

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Disk issues in Netapp

Disk issues in Netapp ,where a disk fails and we replace, there are few issues which we face regularly during a disk failure.

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