Category Archive: Netapp

Jan
17

Snapmirror initialisation error

I recently encountered a problem snapmirroring between a 2020 in domain x and a 3140c in domain y. It was an interim configuration as part of a larger project.  Snapmirror was being used as a way of swinging between the two filers in a production environment to minimise downtime.  The fact that the filers were …

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Mar
28

Netapp Filer locate failed disk

Cause of this problem Disk failed and red LED is not automatically illuminating. Solution To physically locate a disk using the disk’s LED, follow these steps. You may substitute ‘blink_on’ and ‘blink_off’ with ‘led_on’ and ‘led_off’. To enable and disable disk LED blinking (this example uses disk 4.19): Access advanced commands: For Data ONTAP 6.0 …

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Mar
28

Netapp Filer LUN Busy – snapshots

Busy Snapshots can’t be deleted when you LUN CLONE Submitted by cgreen on Tue, 2007-04-17 10:04. Netapp Specific When you clone a LUN, you are left with snapshots that won’t be deleted even after you delete the cloned LUN. These snapshots will start to consume huge amounts of space. If you try to delete the …

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