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NetApp Ontap 9.6 Simulator Upgrade
Today has been the release of NetApp Ontap 9.6 RC2 and what better way to get familiar with it than to run it up in the lab as a simulator.
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NetApp Ontap 9 Configure Advanced Drive Partitioning
I recently tweeted out about the awesome boot menu option that NetApp has introduced in Ontap 9.x that saves a tonne of time called – Configure Advanced Drive Partitioning. In this post I will show you what steps to go through when using option 9 – Configure Advanced Drive Partitioning
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NetApp – Sense Data SCSI:aborted command
NetApp scsi.cmd.checkCondition Warning
A quick blog post to highlight an EMS event that we have encountered after upgrading to Ontap 9.3 whereby the EMS throws up the following warning:
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Netapp Ontap 9.3 Simulator
Since my last twitter post on Netapp Ontap 9.3, a few people have asked me how I’m running the latest version on the simulator without the Ontap 9.3 simulator being out. It’s actually quite simple and I’ll walk you through the steps below.
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Netapp C-Mode Certificate Renewal
In this tutorial I will show you how to renewal a Netapp vserver certificate via the command line.
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How to migrate an SQL Cluster from Netapp 7-mode to c-mode
In this video tutorial, I dive into my lab and guide you through the steps involved to successfully migrate a Microsoft SQL cluster from a Netapp 7-Mode system to Clustered Data Ontap, utilizing the Netapp 7-Mode Transition Tool.
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Netapp csm.sessionFailed:warning
I was looking through a bunch of syslog messages for our c-mode systems the other day and came across a repeated message which was:
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Netapp Ontap 9 Data Compaction
One of the buzz words around Netapp Ontap 9 is the new feature of data compaction. Working along side other storage efficiency mechanisms such as dedupe and compression, data compaction is able to further reduce your data foot print.
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Netapp Ontap 9 Performance Comparison
Ontap 9 is still relatively new, only being released a few weeks ago and with all the hype around the new features and performance gains between previous versions, I really wanted to see this for myself.
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Netapp Ontap 9 Volume Rehost
If you have been working with Netapp Clustered Data Ontap for a while now you would no doubt have performed quite a few volume moves. However one limitation of the volume move command was that you couldn’t move the volume between storage virtual machines (SVM’s)