While updating from 9.x to 9.7 via GUI im getting this error message: “Failed to add the software image to the cluster.The request body must have content type multipart/form-data with a field named file” The solution is very easy: starting with ONTAP 9.7, the image size is above 2 GB and the cluster cannot upload… Read More »
For NetApp Solidfire aka H-Series (ElementOS) there’s a Techical-Report, how to get your capacity and performance data into nice Grafana dashboards. That’s pretty cool, but Grafana itself cannot do any alarming. We are still using Nagios or Iciniga for our monitoring and alarming, so we needed a solution how to include the Solidfire storages into… Read More »
Today I want don’t want to hold back some new stuff from you. It’s time for unboxing a brand new NetApp HCI System. When you hear HCI, you think about Hyper Converged Infrastructure. With HCI you converge compute and storage infrastructure into one single chassis. But the biggest disadvantage is the scalability. You cannot independently… Read More »
Today in the talk: NetApp FabricPool. Or: “Bridging (All-Flash) FAS systems with the hybrid cloud(s)”. Introduction With NetApp FabricPool you can attach a S3 storage (NetApp StorageGRID, Amazon S3 or any other compatible) to an All-Flash FAS system and make it’s aggregates hybrid thereby. It could be used to move your cold data (i.e. snapshot… Read More »
A few months after our first NetApp StorageGRID Webscale PoC we came back for another PoC. This time: Virtual Appliances on VMware vSphere. A perfect solution for small environments and if you already have a virtual environment. After modifying some scripts, the deployment was really easy and fast: a 5-Node cluster including Gateway- and Admin-Node in… Read More »
First of all: what is StorageGRID Webscale? It is a software-defined object-based storage platform from NetApp. It was born about 2000 formaly known as Bycast StorageGRID – in 2010, NetApp bought this technology and give it its new name. It can be accessed via Amazon S3 or OpenStack Swift protocols. With “NAS Bridge” you could… Read More »
I’ve written some new Monitoring Checks for NetApp Metrocluster (MCC) which can be used in addition to my normal NetApp cDOT Checks. Both can be found in my GitHub Repository: Metrocluster Aggr Status: Checks, wheather the aggregate mirroring status, disk pool allocation and the disk ownership is OK. Metrocluster State: Checks the following options: local-configuration-state: should… Read More »
Some days after unboxing one of our NetApp AFF A700s, I’ve done some performance benchmark: To utilize this controller, I needed: 16x VMware VM and 16 different hypervisors, each VM: 2 Cores, 4 GB RAM Windows 7 10 GbE Connection IOmeter with 50 works, each 4k Blocksize, 100% Read, 100% Sequential Without limitation, one A700s… Read More »
Since I’ve installed our fourth NetApp AFF A700s controller today, I think it’s time for a “Unboxed” blog post. First a few numbers and informations. What is a AFF A700s controller? For short: it’s a smaller and limited version of the big AFF A700 controller. It uses the same CPU, RAM and half of the… Read More »
Our first setup with NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP starting with 8.0.1 in late 2010 was build with two single network switches, each connected with a single 10 GbE link. Because you cannot span a link aggregation over two single switches we decided to use an interface group with mode “singlemode”, which means that simply only… Read More »