Easy OnTap Upgrades (NDU)
An easy way to upgrade your filer is to issue the following (always run the upgrade advisor prior to upgrades to ensure you're system is good to go to the version you're looking for).
- download ontap from the NOW site
- load that file onto a web server (http)
- login to your filer from the console (rlm if preferred)
- toasterA> software update http://{ipaddress}/{version}_setup_q.exe -r
- toasterB> software update http://{ipaddress}/{version}_setup_q.exe -r
- *you should update the disk and shelf firmware at this point to speed the cluster failover time*
- toasterA> storage download shelf (Wait to complete)
- toasterB> storage download shelf (Wait to complete)
- toasterB> cf takeover
- ... wait for reboot (10 min) ...
- toasterB> cf giveback
- toasterA> cf takeover
- ... wait for reboot (10 min) ...
- toasterA> cf giveback
HOW TO: Use DFS on a Server Cluster to Maintain a Single Namespace
Microsoft actually has a great article about how to create a DFS enviornment on a windows server cluster.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301588
I'm going to append to this my own version but for now, here's the placeholder!
NetApp OnTap 7.3 Released
A major release for NetApp posted to the NOW site today, OnTap 7.3. This is a major performance release for NetApp as it starts to take advantage of the powerful 64-bit cores that NetApp has in their lineup of products.
For those of you that have a NOW account:
http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/ontap/rel73/html/ontap/rnote/frameset.html
Blog Change in Direction
I'm going to start to change things around. This blog will become more of a datacenter infrastructure site rather than a SMS/ConfigMgr/Scripting site. I'm going to change my focus on to storage, fiberchannel/ethernet storage networks, datacenter design trends, and high-level project overviews.
I still haven't found alot of time to keep this up to date. but i'm going to try in the future to at least post one blog a week. Respond to this post with comments on anything you'd like expained and i'll try to use those as topics to proceed.
Storage resource management (SRM) – Products
storage resource management products are hard to find. i've compiled a list (in no specific order) of products i've found. If you have any others to add please do!! it's actually been quite difficult to uncover some of the more advanced automation and storage management products.
Storage resource management (SRM):
Storage resource management (SRM) is the process of optimizing the efficiency and speed with which the available drive space is utilized in a storage area network (SAN). In recent years, numerous programs have become available that can help SAN administrators accomplish this task. This diverts the burden of performing the chore manually, which can be considerable, away from administrators.
Functions of an SRM program include data storage, data collection, data backup, data recovery, SAN performance analysis, storage virtualization, storage provisioning, forecasting of future needs, maintenance of activity logs, user authentication, protection from hackers and worms, and management of network expansion. An SRM solution may be offered as a stand-alone product, or as part of an integrated program suite.
Upgraded internet.
Just thought i'd share, i finally got my internet fixed. turns out i had two modems on my account and they kept provisioining the wrong one for the faster speeds.
blog error
I just realized I had an issue with the blog. WOW, here I was thinking everything was fine and dandy. Well, it's fixed now. I'm embarking on an interesting project using Oracle VM and NetApp. I'm planning to document it on this blog. Hopefully I'll have time!
Datacenter Storage
How does your datacenter storage look? We created a "storage asile". There are 20 racks that we thought would be plenty during the datacenter build (approx 2 months ago). Now, there's only a few racks left as we're installing another new NetApp 6080. Here's some pics:
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