Monthly Archives: July 2012

You need two cluster network switches and two management network switches for a Cluster-Mode configuration. The following cluster network switches are supported: • Cisco NX5010 You can install the Cisco NX5010 switch in a NetApp system cabinet with the custom … Continue reading →

access the clustershell via the clustermanagement lifto use element manager: webbased-connect to cluster *either node or clusterlif* 

New customers will not be able to run striped volumes (neither coral nor acro) coral -> one metadatavolume acro -> metainformation is spread accross all parts of the volume.

http://static.usenix.org/event/fast07/tech/full_papers/eisler/eisler.pdf http://media.netapp.com/documents/tr-3964.pdf

writing to a volume that is an ls-volume will fail if the rootvolume is mounted as / writing to a volume that is an ls-volume will succeed (to the N-blade that houses the rw-data-vol) if the rootvolume is mounted as … Continue reading →

backup daily and hourly backups created by schedule in /mroot/etc/backups/ create/show/upload/download/rename/copy/settings can be uploaded via http or ftp

set -privilege diag spm show

/var/log (after vol0 is available)systemshell /mroot/etc/log   set diag debug log show debug log view event log show needs work……

Any schedule can be used by any Vserver. job schedule show 5min cron @:00,:05,:10,:15,:20,:25,:30,:35,:40,:45,:50,:55 8hour cron @2:15,10:15,18:15 RepositoryBalanceMonitorJobSchedule interval Every 1h avUpdateSchedule cron @2:00 daily cron @0:10 hourly cron @:05 weekly cron Sun@0:15 volume snapshot policy show default 3 true … Continue reading →

CFE> printenv CFE> setenv bootarg.init.boot_clustered false CFE> setenv bootarg.init.boot_clustered true

security login show (shows users per vserver username application authmethod role name acct-locked)   security login role show (shows roles per vserver rolename commanddirectory access-level)   step by step: (on a per node basis) security login role create -role ndmp … Continue reading →

there is NO SNAPVAULT! NO qtree snapmirror and NO synchronous Snapmirror   snapmirror for load sharing or dataprotection are done via the cluster-network volume snapshot promote snapmirror restore OR snapmirror promote   there still is a snapmirror break command.   … Continue reading →

ndmpcopy cannot be run from nodeshell or clustershell. you need a third player to run ndmp from. Netapp also says you should not backup seperate Vservers! ndmpclient only sees the node, not the Vserver.   Backing up data on a … Continue reading →

In clustermode you need a management lif next to the datalifs for the iSCSI protocol on a per vserver basis. The management lif needs a user to allow snapdrive to manage your luns. My clustername : cluster My Vservername : … Continue reading →

1. create vserver vserver create -vserver vsi1 -rootvolume vsi1_root -aggregate aggr1 -ns-switch file -nm-switch file -rootvolume-security-style ntfs   2. enable iscsi protocol vserver iscsi create -vserver vsi1 -target-alias vsi1-status up   3. vserver iscsi show   4. * network interface … Continue reading →

1. create vserver vserver create -vserver vsi1-rootvolume vsi1_root -aggregate aggr1 -ns-switch file -nm-switch file -rootvolume-security-style ntfs 2. enable iscsi protocole vserver iscsi create -vserver vsi1-target-alias vsi1-status up 3. vserver iscsi show 4. network interface create -vserver vsi1 ilif1 -role data-protocol … Continue reading →

allowed protocols on lifs: cannot mix nas and san igroups : iscsi and fcp for 1 igroup

https://kb.netapp.com/support/index?page=content&id=1012542 ===== Create a file to be used as the authorized keys file on the cluster. In the example below, ssh-keygen is used on a Linux box: monitor@bjacobs-lnx:/$ ssh-keygen -q -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa -t rsa Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): … Continue reading →

vserver name-mapping create -vserver v2 -direction win-unix -position 1 -pattern netapp.local\\\\administrator -replacement root vserver name-mapping create -vserver v2 -direction unix-win -position 1 -pattern root -replacement netapp.local\\\\administrator vserver name-mapping show set diag diag secd name-mapping show -node cl1-01 -vserver v2 -direction … Continue reading →

vserver services unix-user create -vserver vs2 -user pcuser -d 65534 -primary-gid 65534 (also root 0 1) (also administrator 10 0) vserver services unix-user show -vserver vs2 vserver services unix-group create -vserver vs2 -name root 0 (also daemon 1) vserver services … Continue reading →

network ping -node cl1-01 10.10.0.10

vserver create -vserver win5 -rootvolume root -aggregate gr02_aggr1 -ns-switch file -nm-switch file -rootvolume-security-style unix -language C net int create -vserver win5 -lif lif1 -role data -data-protocol nfs,cifs,fcache -home-node gr-01 -home-port e0c -address 192.168.4.34 -netmask 255.255.255.0 -status-admin up vserver services dns … Continue reading →

ntp server create -node cl1-01 -server 10.10.0.10 ntp server create -node cl1-02 -server 10.10.0.10 ntp config modify -enabled false date mmddhhmm    

vserver setup   1. name 2. protocol configured (nfs/cifs/iscsi/fcp) 3. nameservice (ldap/nis/dns) 4. aggregate for rootvolume 5. volume language *rootvolume is created* 6. create datavolume? [yes] 7. volume name 8. aggregate for datavol 9. size 10. junctionpath *if path is … Continue reading →

roles: cluster (important) data (important) node-mgmt cluster-mgmt intercluster (snapmirror to other cluster (future)) command : net int show net int create  

cluster-interconnect network management network data network management and data may be combined on same ports

N-blade – nfs/cifs spinNP   SCSI-blade – FC/SCSI spinNP ============== CSM communication mechanism between top blades and D-blade reliable transport for SpinNP over UDP/IP used locally as well as remotely ============== D-blade handles writes to wafl speaks SpinNP speaks FC … Continue reading →

repicated database = ring of atomically updated database of which one node is the master. rdb communication is like the heartbeat.   rdb units: bcom (block configuration and operations manager : vldb ( volume location database) : vifmgr : management … Continue reading →

To take a node out of the cluster for a longer time. run: system node modify -node <node> -eligibility false

vserver create -vserver vs5 -rootvolume vs5_root -aggregat aggr1 \ -ns-switch file -rootvolume-security-style unix   network interface create -vserver vs5 -lif data1 -role data \ -home-node cl1-u01 -home-port e0c -address 10.10.0.67 \ -netmask 255.255.255.0   vol create -vserver vs5 -volume nas … Continue reading →

vserver create -vserver vs5 -rootvolume vs5_root -rootvolume-security-style unix \\ -aggregate aggr1 -ns-switch file   vol create -volume vs5_nas -aggregate aggr1 -size 100m -security-style unix \\ -junction-path /nfs5vol -vserver vs5   net int create -vserver vs5 -lif vs5nas -role data -data-protocol … Continue reading →

Offlining vserver:   vol offline -vserver vs4 -volume vs4_root vol delete -vserver vs4 -volume vs4_root

. Get disk info and change owner storage disk show storage disk modify -disk v4.23 -owner cl1-01 storage disk zerospares   2. Create aggregate storage aggregate create -aggregate aggr3 8 (aggr names must be unique in the cluster) storage aggregate … Continue reading →

Vserver setup (enter vservername) : vs3-lun (enter protocol) : iscsi (enter ns) : dns (enter aggr) : aggr1 This creates a rootvol of 20m.   (enter datavol to create) : vs3_lun_vol (enter aggr for this vol) : aggr1 (enter size … Continue reading →

Change privilege level set -privilege advanced set admin   1. Get to the node shell system node run -node cl1-01   2. Get to the system shell set advanced security login unlock -username diag security login password -username diag ***** … Continue reading →