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Today is hump day and with that comes some added motivation to update this blog with some new material! The following post discusses another common topic and that is the termination of CIFS sessions in cDOT. This task could be performed in 7-mode however the commands have since changed in cDOT. Refer to the following tutorial below to …
After spending the last few weeks moving into my new place and having “fun” furnishing it, I am back on the road armed with more content! Within a few hours of being onsite today I got asked if it was possible to set NTFS permissions to files and/or folders within Clustered Data ONTAP (cDOT). This is another commonly …
With a snap of the fingers I have been at NetApp for almost 6 months already! I have been quite busy acclimating to life as a consultant as I have been in the field almost 100% of the time since May. While being busy has been nice, it has left me with little time to update …
As a customer I ran into a few scenarios where I needed to restore directories or files from a restored LVM-based RHEL 6 VMDK. You cannot simply attach the restored VMDK, mount the filesystem, and copy the directories or files due to the way LVM utilizes UUIDs for logical volumes. In order to restore directories …
I recently ran into an issue where I was could not unmount an empty vSphere datastore from the appropriate hosts. After doing some research I found out that this issue was caused by open files from a new VSAN-related service known as “vsantraced”. According to this VMware KB article, you must perform the following steps in …
I have run into a few scenarios where I have had to manually clear NFS locks on a given NetApp system. The recommended procedure for clearing these locks has changed over the years depending on the Data ONTAP version and now again with the release of Clustered Data ONTAP. 7-mode ONTAP Login to the appropriate …
This article explains how to expand a ZFS Pool. I have used this procedure a few times while dealing with FreeBSD in a virtual environment where I have needed to expand a zpool. Enable the “autoexpand” feature on the zpool zpool set autoexpand=on zfstestpool Shutdown the system shutdown -h now Resize the gpt partition gpart …