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Finally SAS disk shelves from NetApp. Also in a 24 drive configuration. Update: Looks like these will ship with new systems only starting December (and by new systems, it seems maybe only the FAS-3170s). General availability will come a few months later. an update: We finally ordered some of these shelves, and they’re quite nice!

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I have got to say, mint.com is one of the best tools i’ve used in a long time. I used quicken online for a little while and then found if I stopped visiting the site that it would stop pulling transactions. The mint.com site continues to grab them even if I’ve been idle for a […]

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The following models of storage systems are supported: 60xx 31xx (3160 is not supported in RC1) 3070 3040 SA600 SA300 SA310 Exciting. I’m thinking about installing this on a FAS-3070 next week. Hopefully have some screenshots. Since it’s generally available on the NOW site you should be able to find it.

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I spent a few hours doddling around with how to do email alerting with the provided VFM scripts. I finally ended up rewriting things just a little, but below is the basics of how to configure VFM to use email alerting. A quick note, this most likely applies for the Brocade StorageX product as NetApp […]

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It seems no matter how much you try you cannot ever get those damned orphaned homedirs cleaned up. Well, this helps. Our org always has additional groups in the homedir (no, we don’t just let the users have whatever they want in there, so we have to monitor). This causes a little confusion amongst most […]

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every once in a while i like to change things up a little, so i changed themes. One thing i noticed was my array of crazy tags off to the right, i’m going to do some cleaning up of those i think.

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I’m awaiting the release of OnTap 8.0, but there are several things I’m waiting for that will come after 8.0. Jeff O’Neal, NetApp’s senior director of Data Center Solutions, said Data OnTap 8.0 — which will merge Data OnTap 7G with the Data OnTap GX cluster platform — will be released later this year. “NetApp […]

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DFSUTIL Backup dfsutil /root:\yourroot.localDFS /export:c:DFSbackup.txt DFSUTIL Restore dfsutil /root:\yourroot.localDFS /import:c:DFSBackup.txt /set http://metalsushi.blogspot.com/2008/07/dfs-backup-and-restore-using-dfsutil.html

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well, quite a long time after I wrote this I’m finally releasing it. Let me know if you have any problems with it, I wanted to do a more detailed write-up but for now, at least I’ll get it out there ;). Click read-more if you’re interested in the link to the download.

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I’ve gotten a little further. I’ve refined my perl script so that it gets data from various more reliable sources within GX. It’s been crazy busy at work but I should have the solution posted this week. 🙂 Read on for some screenshots.

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