The following quick guide will show you how to configure LDAP to an active directory domain from the Santricity (11.5) web based interface. Log into Santricity Web GUI and go to Settings -> Access Management Click Directory Services -> Add Directory Server I filled out the following under Server Settings. Please change to your Then Read More…
Category: NetApp
Error: Unused Cluster Ports Exist in the Cluster – Netapp AFF C190 Setup Failure
Problem When trying to create new two node cluster on a Netapp C190. Trying to create cluster again as previous attempt failed. Error: Unused cluster ports exist in the cluster. One or more ports may not be in the “healthy” state, or may be incorrectly assigned to the “Cluster” Ipspace. Run “network port show -ipspace Read More…
Upgrade Ontap 9.9
In this article I will outline the steps in upgrading (a very buggy) Netapp Ontap 9.9.1 to 9.9.1P5 Download 9.9.5 firmware from Netapp website (in a tgz format) Log into Cluster Mgmt VIP Cluster -> Overview -> Upload image Once uploaded select {image} -> Update In my environment it threw up a few errors on Read More…
Reboot Loop Limit Exceeded – NetApp E5760
Problem: When installing (well, remote hands in a datacenter) an NetApp E5760 with DE460C shelf, after the initial configuration of the management IP address the array went into the following state: Reboot Loop Limit Exceeded Lockdown code: 0ELF The storage array has exceeded its reboot limit and has locked down to preserve the data on Read More…
SMCLI Commands for NetApp E-Series
Issue I needed to remove a disk from a disk pool on an E-series 5700 (http://www.jordansphere.co.uk/remove-drives-from-pool-in-netapp-e-series/ ). This can only be done via SMCLI – which i’d never used before. Here are few useful steps and commands I found on the way. Steps Firstly I needed to install the E-Series Santricity Manager (despite the my Read More…
Remove Drives from Pool in Netapp E-Series
Problem I needed to remove a drive from a Pool in a Netapp E5760 in order to be a hot spare Solution You need to do this via SMCLI or Run the query from Santricity. As you have to install Santricity for access to SMCLI, I just used the Manager software to run the query. Read More…
Add Gateway to NetAPP SVM
To add a default route to an SVM after creation run the following command: network route create -vserver [VSERVER] -destination 0.0.0.0/0 -gateway {defaultgw_IP] eg network route create -vserver mySVM01-destination 0.0.0.0/0 -gateway 192.168.1.254
ESXI – Failed – Cannot Change the Host Configuration
Issue: We had set up and configured a new Netapp AFF 400. When we tried to add the datastores to ESXi 7.0 host we go the following error: Error Message: Resolution: I have actually seen this before. The problem is an MTU issue. In our case the VPC in the network didnt have the correct Read More…
Display Fractional Reserve on Ontap 9.9
We had an issue where we had turned on fractional reserve using ontap 9.6 then upgraded to 9.9. It appears the new GUI does not display if fractional reserve is enabled or not. I believe from Ontap version 9.7 and below you cannot switch back to the classic view so to the command prompt we Read More…
Find Serial Number of Shelf on Ontap v9.x
Problem: I needed to locate the serial number of a new shelf i’d just added. Solution: Login to the cluster via SSH and run the following command my-sannapp01::> storage shelf show