Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 7 years ago. Improve this question Our NetAPP SAN uses something called “Fibre Channel” disks. What are Fibre Channel disks, and does this mean that I can’t replace them … Read more
Does anyone know what the SAS JBOD module is called (model number perhaps) that works for NetApp’s DS4243 disk array? I can find controllers on ebay, but not a single SAS JBOD module. Afterwards it will be used on Linux. Answer It’s an IOM3 X5712A-R6 I believe AttributionSource : Link , Question Author : Jasmine … Read more
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I tried two ways of mounting a NetApp NFS drive on a Windows server: Mounting using SMB/CIFS from NetApp Mounting as a NFS drive using Windows NFS Sevices With none of them, Windows did not let me create junction points (Windows flavour of symlinks). Note, I do want to keep this volume as NFS, because … Read more
I am working in VMware Vspere client, I am an sys administrator taking over for an Admin who has left. Many users were complaining about space in our Mounted Linux shared drive. So I did some digging and found many .snapshot files which are rather large. If I look in the VMware Vsphere snapshot manager, … Read more
I’ve been tasked with finding alternatives for storage VDIs and other underlying data in our Xen virtual machines. We currently use a NetApp filer cluster, but with the heads going EOL in December there’s reluctance to continue to spend on NetApp. I’m told lots of people are doing all sorts of things with distributed storage … Read more
I have a netapp server exportting NFS share (NFS3). I am monitoring the fpolicy on the netapp server, this means, I listen to all File read operation of the volume (and share..). From a CentOS machine, I mount that NFS and perform File read (cat) operation. In the first time I will do “cat”, in … Read more
I currently have a cluster of two ESX 3.5U2 servers connected directly via FiberChannel to a NetApp 3020 cluster. These hosts mount four VMFS LUNs for virtual machine storage. Currently these LUNs are only made available via our FiberChannel initator in the Netapp configuration If I were to add an ESXi host to the cluster … Read more
We had an issue early this morning when iSCSI issues broke connectivity with a few of our databases (resulting in a SQL Server Error 21). Attempts to DBCC CheckDB did not work, and the only solution was to restart the SQL Service. Is there a known reason why an iSCSI initiator session would reset itself … Read more
Netapp VMWare Sql Server VM’s using SMVI to backup OS and SMSQL to backup DB’s Windows and generic data drive on one volume, SQL MDF’s on another, SQL TempDB on another and SQL Logs and SMSQL SI on a fourth. My DataCenter Storage Engineers tell me that when they snap the OS using SMVI since … Read more
