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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 asked question and the answer to it is yes, you can apply NTFS permissions to filesystem objects from within cDOT. Below I have included a summarized step by step tutorial on how to apply NTFS permissions to a given path (can be the root of a volume or a file or folder which resides within a cDOT volume): ...

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 order to unmount the affected datastore(s): Login to the vSphere host via SSH Stop the “vsantraced” service /etc/init.d/vsantraced stop Unmount the datastore(s) Start the “vsantraced” service /etc/init.d/vsantraced start For more details please see the VMware KB article linked to above. ...