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I suspect this problem isn’t limited to just managing CIFS shares on NetApp’s. I bet if you’ve got a Windows File Server and you’re trying to edit NTFS permissions on shares via a Windows 2008 Computer Management MMC you’ll get this error message. In our case we’ve got a NetApp FAS2040 joined to our new AD forest with a … Read more
When drives in a NetApp are being obsoleted and replaced we need to make sure we securely erase all data that used to be on them. Unless you’re just going to crush your disks. In this example we’ve got an aggregate of 14 disks (aggr0) that need to be wiped and removed from our NetApp … Read more
Someone not following your naming convention? We’ve got two filers (netapp1 and netapp2) and I want to rename a SnapMirror target to follow our new naming convention. We’re going to prefix the volume ‘sampleTarget’ with ‘st_’ to designate it as a SnapMirror Target. 1. Login to the NetApp via SSH that has the SnapMirror Target … Read more
There are two sets of instructions in this post. Follow the first for migrating regular volumes. Follow the second set for migrating SnapMirror Targets. To keep things simple I use the original volume name and append ‘NEW’ at the end for the new volume and rename the original volume and append ‘OLD’ to the end … Read more
Need to switch your root volume (vol0) to a different aggregate on a NetApp? I performed the following on a NetApp FAS2020 running Data OnTap 7.3.5.1 WARNING: IF DONE INCORRECTLY THIS COULD RESULT IN YOUR NETAPP BEING UNABLE TO BOOT. PROCEED ARE YOUR OWN RISK. You may want to consider speaking with NetApp directly instead … Read more