Setting NTFS Permissions in Clustered Data ONTAP

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): ...

September 9, 2014 · 2 min · dburkland

How To Clear NFS Locks in Data ONTAP

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 7-mode filer Transition into diag mode priv set diag Clear all the NFS locks ...

March 1, 2014 · 1 min · dburkland