SHIFT-WIKI - Sjoerd Hooft's InFormation Technology
This WIKI is my personal documentation blog. Please enjoy it and feel free to reach out through blue sky if you have a question, remark, improvement or observation. See below for the latest additions, or use the search or tags to browse for content.
NetApp: Changing Aggregate Snap Reserve
Summary: How to change the aggregate snap reserve on a Netapp Filer.
Date: Around 2015
Refactor: 7 March 2025: Checked links and formatting.
NetApp Aggregate Expansion
Summary: How to expand the aggregates on a Netapp Filer.
Date: Around 2015
Refactor: 7 March 2025: Checked links and formatting.
When you're running ontap 8.1 you can finally create or upgrade your aggregates to 64 bits. There is only one supported way to upgrade your aggregate to 64 bits and that is by adding enough disks to make the amount of space exceed 16 TB. This article is just me going through the article and doing some extra steps afterwards, to maximize performance for the newly created free space.
NetApp: Add Route
Summary: How to setup a network route on a Netapp Filer.
Date: Around 2015
Refactor: 7 March 2025: Checked links and formatting.
This is small howto on routing on ONTAP, the NetApp OS. The goal is to add a (default) route and check the current route.
How To Use NDMPcopy To Move LUNs/RDMs To A Different Volume or Filer
Summary: How To Use NDMPcopy To Move LUNs/RDMs To A Different Volume or Filer.
Date: Around 2013
Refactor: 7 March 2025: Checked links and formatting.
While installing and configuring Site Recovery Manager 5.1 I came across a few VMs that had to be protected that also had RDMs. The volumes they were located in were not suitable for replication which meant I had to move them to different volumes and sometimes even to different filers. This is quite easily done using ndmpcopy. This article describes the procedure for moving RDMs that are part of a Microsoft Cluster to a different volume on the same filer as well as to a different filer.
Note that all storage is located on NetApps.
Also note that this article assumes that all required volumes and datastores are already created, as well as correct initiatorgroups, zoning etc.