#  @rich2778 rich2778 rich2778 posts on Reddit about netapp, vmware, microsoft, dell the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [--] posts still getting attention that total [--] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [--] [#](/creator/reddit::t2_149e4j/interactions)  - [--] Week [---] -13% - [--] Month [---] +14% - [--] Months [-----] +32% - [--] Year [-----] +212% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/reddit::t2_149e4j/posts_active)  - [--] Week [--] +25% - [--] Month [--] +20% - [--] Months [--] -27% - [--] Year [--] -5.40% ### Followers: [-----] [#](/creator/reddit::t2_149e4j/followers)  - [--] Months [-----] +0.14% - [--] Year [-----] +2.20% ### CreatorRank: undefined [#](/creator/reddit::t2_149e4j/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [stocks](/list/stocks) [finance](/list/finance) **Social topic influence** [netapp](/topic/netapp) #28, [vmware](/topic/vmware), [microsoft](/topic/microsoft), [dell](/topic/dell), [i need](/topic/i-need), [ip](/topic/ip), [there is](/topic/there-is), [up the](/topic/up-the), [unc](/topic/unc), [prem](/topic/prem) **Top assets mentioned** [Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)](/topic/microsoft) [Dell Technologies, Inc. (DELL)](/topic/dell) [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [Crowdstrike Holdings Inc (CRWD)](/topic/crowdstrike) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "vSwitch configuration for NFS vmware vmware" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1i9isy6) 2025-01-25T08:47Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Setting ping sensor as master for multiple devices prtg prtg" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1mc8vd5) 2025-07-29T11:41Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Moving folders in CIFS SVM from ONTAP cli netapp netapp" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1pd016o) 2025-12-03T09:51Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Ransomware protection what more can/should I do netapp netapp" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1kdqfs3) 2025-11-04T12:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Moving volume between aggregates - non disruptive netapp netapp" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1pm8ah6) 2025-12-14T07:40Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Protection Policy retention best practises netapp netapp" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1pm8qna) 2025-12-14T08:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Netapp AFF C250 Tips n Tricks sysadmin sysadmin" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1flyuqs) 2024-09-21T09:08Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Does an SVM need a management IP netapp netapp" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1i120ts) 2025-01-14T11:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Renaming SVM Root Volume [----] and I have an SVM serving NFS to some ESXi hosts. I could do with renaming the root volume due as I think the SVM was renamed shortly after being created but the root volume name wasn't updated. https://kb.netapp.com/on-prem/ontap/Ontap_OS/OS-KBs/Is_renaming_the_SVM_root_volume_disruptive(https://kb.netapp.com/on-prem/ontap/Ontap_OS/OS-KBs/Is_renaming_the_SVM_root_volume_disruptive) Says it's non-disruptive. Is it really If there's any chance of disruption I'll either leave it alone or it'll be a maintenance windows. netapp netapp" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1ij9qj7) 2025-02-06T18:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "365 shops how are you handling SMTP relay when you have lots of on-prem stuff that talks SMTP sysadmin sysadmin" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1kcz6lj) 2025-05-02T12:29Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "Hosted Monitor best practices prtg prtg" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1lkaeii) 2025-06-25T16:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "AFF C250 recommended release netapp netapp" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1ncoda9) 2025-09-09T18:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements ""mgmtgwd.certificate.expiring" - sanity check netapp netapp" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1nj9ffi) 2025-09-17T12:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "KB4525 Script Veeam Veeam" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1o970hx) 2025-11-02T06:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "How much do you trust immutable storage to be immutable sysadmin sysadmin" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1oam23u) 2025-10-19T16:45Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "VBR [--] Migration Path Veeam Veeam" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1oet0xy) 2025-10-24T10:20Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "PingCastle v Purple Knight or both sysadmin sysadmin" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1oq4y4e) 2025-11-06T17:37Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Chrome not Auto-Updating sysadmin sysadmin" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1qhb406) 2026-01-19T17:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "R740 which ISO to use for ESXi [---] U1 vmware vmware" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/9wpojr) 2025-11-26T06:20Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "C250 feedback - anyone using" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/14awl39) 2023-06-16T13:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "CVE-2022-38023 Netlogon Changes and Event ID 5840" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/14db0nr) 2023-06-19T10:38Z [----] followers, 37.3K engagements "C series replication to FAS" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/15g6ntj) 2023-08-02T11:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "SnapMirror destination aggregate filled up" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/16aybcs) 2023-09-05T19:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Remote Desktop Services - Should I use User Profile Disks or not" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/16hywxu) 2023-09-13T21:09Z [----] followers, 36.9K engagements "C250 Questions" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/16imxd5) 2023-09-14T16:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Small replicated vSphere cluster with NetApp Storage" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/16j6t4i) 2023-09-15T07:38Z [----] followers, 37.4K engagements "Am I using Unified Replication" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/16ms1ai) 2023-09-19T14:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Dell PowerStore" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/16soy34) 2023-09-26T14:06Z [--] followers, 38K engagements "CIFS SVM File Auditing" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/17alnhl) 2023-10-18T08:24Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "Restricting guest accounts to specific Enterprise Applications" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/17fck13) 2023-10-24T13:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Microsoft Security Baselines" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/18amldj) 2023-12-04T15:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "KB5034129 & KB5034439 on Server [----] Does anyone know what the hell is wrong with these two updates please I literally have brand new Server [----] VMs that have been built from a Server [----] ISO last week that error out when doing a check for updates and installing these. All I see is 0x80070643 when trying to install KB5034439 and KB5034129 doesn't even give that. There seem to be lots of reports of issues but very little firm around what is happening about them getting fixed. These VMs have a 200GB virtual HDD with the Microsoft recovery partition defaults where I just hit "install" when" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/195t2b0) 2024-01-13T17:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "ESXi [--] U2 NTP Configuration - is it really that broken Brand new ESXi [--] U2 host installed from the week old Dell custom ISO image. I go to setup NTP and try to enter multiple NTP hosts with a comma separating them which is exactly what the web UI says to do. It doesn't seem to accept them but it also doesn't give an error message. There is also an "Actions" button that seems to do nothing at all. You know when you see something and think "is it me" but I don't think it can be me. vmware vmware" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/198sm2l) 2024-01-17T09:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "New Subscription Pricing for SMBs - Examples I'm reading lots of unclear misleading and supposition about pricing. Does anyone have some real world subscription pricing for a typical SMB customer who might have 3-4 [--] core hosts or who might have an Essentials Plus kit and is currently paying very little in annual support please vmware vmware" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1aqhxrw) 2024-02-14T08:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Query about Compliance GPOs on DCs If I have multiple DCs at different sites and those sites have different compliance requirements and I enforce some of those policies via GPO to the DCs only in those sites that won't somehow force those settings to be applied on the other DCs at other sites will it Things like you find in the CISA and Microsoft Baseline ADMX templates. I'd also like to test these in some larger offices and it would be nice to be able to apply them to a single DC in those sites before applying them to all DCs. I should know this but I'm not 100% sure. sysadmin sysadmin" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1c22zj0) 2024-04-12T07:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "krbtgt password reset on CIFS SVM Active Directory domain I have a domain joined CIFS SVM on ONTAP [---] P22. Does anyone know if there is anything specific to ONTAP that I would need to check before doing a krbtgt password reset I know not to do it twice in rapid succession and for those that double as Windows sysadmins I'm planning on using the script here. https://github.com/zjorz/Public-AD-Scripts/blob/master/Reset-KrbTgt-Password-For-RWDCs-And-RODCs.ps1(https://github.com/zjorz/Public-AD-Scripts/blob/master/Reset-KrbTgt-Password-For-RWDCs-And-RODCs.ps1) Thanks :) netapp netapp" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1c2e8s1) 2024-04-12T16:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Upgrading 9.7P22 to 9.12.1 directly I have a pair of clusters running 9.7P22. The primary cluster is 4x nodes with CN1610 switches and the secondary DR cluster is just [--] nodes no switches. I'd like to upgrade the DR cluster to 9.12.1P11 and assuming no issues next step would be the production cluster. The CN1610 looks like there is no support past 9.12.1 and these clusters/nodes should be being replaced later this year probably with some C250s. I'm reading this" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1ca9v27) 2024-04-22T12:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "iSCSI Multi-Path Failover Behaviour on ESXi with separate subnets I have a Dell ME5 array and a couple ESXi hosts which are direct connect to the ME5 over 25GbE iSCSI. vmk1 on vswitch1 which is assigned to vmnic1 is 192.168.1.1/24(http://192.168.1.1/24) to Controller A0 which is 192.168.1.2/24(http://192.168.1.2/24) vmk2 on vswitch2 which is assigned to vmnic2 is 192.168.2.1/24(http://192.168.2.1/24) to Controller B0 which is 192.168.2.2/24(http://192.168.2.2/24) In the ESXi iSCSI adaptor I add 192.168.1.2(http://192.168.1.2) and 192.168.2.2(http://192.168.2.2) to the discovery and on the ME5" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1doy14z) 2024-06-26T13:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "C250 Configuration Best Practise So I have a pair of C250's and for each one I have a pair of Juniper EX 25GbE switches. Each C250 is a 12x15TB model. I need to present a CIFS SVM to the domain and I need to present a NFS SVM to a couple of ESXi clusters and the 2x C250's will use snapmirror to replicate between each other. We're going to be paying for some professional services to do the install but I'm trying to wrap my head around what the network configuration is likely to look like. I'm assuming based on our current NetApp cluster that it'll still be pairs of interfaces using LACP to" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1dz5ymx) 2024-07-09T15:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "2x New NetApps Veeam Enterprise Plus how would you do DR I have 2x new NetApp C250s one for prod and one for DR which will be hooked up to ESXi [--] & vCenter [--] Standard using NFS. I'm using Veeam Enterprise Plus for backups so we have that covered but I'm still exploring options for DR at an "everything" and at per VM level One option is to use NetApp SVM replication which as I understand it means if the prod NetApp disappears if we have the right networking in place it can be as simple as powering on the NFS SVM on the DR NetApp and we have datastores back from the last SVM replication point." [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1e7su4b) 2024-07-20T10:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "2x New NetApps Veeam Enterprise Plus how would you do DR vmware vmware" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1e7vwpb) 2024-07-20T13:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "XCP v Robocopy for CIFS SVM Migration Pretty much what it says. When I first migrated to NetApp I used robocopy and from memory I also used XCP as I was migrating shares from Windows servers. Now I'm looking at going from a CIFS SVM to a CIFS SVM on a new C series so it will be ONTAP to ONTAP. Is there any need for robocopy in this scenario netapp netapp" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1e8km57) 2024-07-21T11:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "CIFS/SMB - volumes v Qtrees for departmental shares We've had a couple of C250's configured by Professional Services and I'm getting used to ONTAP again as it's not my core job so I'm "bursting" to get up to speed with 9.15P1 and the new System Manager and once I'm up and running it'll calm down again. I have a CIFS SVM that's domain joined and a requirement to server out departmental shares i.e. Marketing and Finance. I don't care how much data any one individual in Marketing or Finance puts in their share but I don't want the Marketing share to grow beyond 1TB and I don't want Finance to" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1fl6a72) 2024-09-20T07:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Backing up ESXi NFS Datastores I have a couple new NetApp C250s running VMs with ESXi [--] and [--]. I'm using NFSv3 and I want to backup using Veeam. On my old cluster I was using NFSv4 but I'm being steered away from this as it seems there are still more issues with NFSv4 than there are NFSv3. I have a single Veeam B&R server which is also a proxy running as a VM on the new cluster backing up to a physical repo. The number of VMs doesn't justify multiple proxies. Firstly should I be using Direct NFS If I should do I need to do anything more than assign the Veeam server a virtual NIC with an IP on" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1fle5fk) 2024-09-20T15:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Enabling Automatic Updates - Yes or No Pretty much what it says and if so what setting i.e. automatic or "show notifications" Context is AFF C250 family. netapp netapp" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1fojajn) 2024-09-24T18:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Veeam Direct NFS Is anyone here using Veeam to backup VM's on NFS with NetApp please If so are you using Direct NFS and if so have you had any issues Or is it as simple as give your proxy an IP on the NFS VLAN and away you go sysadmin sysadmin" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1fve2gd) 2024-10-03T18:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Backing up NetApp from a DR replica I have a pair of NetApps and I'm looking at doing either SVM or volume replication of CIFS data from production to DR. If the backup server is at the DR site is there a way to backup the CIFS data from the DR NetApp rather than the production one netapp netapp" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1g0k65i) 2024-10-10T14:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "SnapMirror SVM replication - why wouldn't I I've been playing around with SVM replication today for the first time. My mind is blown :) I have an AD joined CIFS SVM on a production NetApp and I setup SnapMirror SVM replication to a DR NetApp. Went with the option to copy source config including IP settings. I set a continuous ping going and switched off the source so it stopped pinging then I went on the destination and used the "activate destination SVM" option and [--] seconds later the destination SVM was pinging and about [--] seconds later I could browse to it all the shares were there so I" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1g0n5a9) 2024-10-10T16:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "XCP optimal parameters for CIFS to CIFS Copies So if I have a source CIFS SVM and a destination CIFS SVM on the same domain and I want to sync to the new SVM and copy permissions what parameters are people using please *xcp sync -root -parallel [--] -acl -fallback-user "Administrator" -fallback-group "Administrators" "source" "dest"* Appears to do the job but the XCP docs has a *lot* of options. I'm backing up using Commvault and backing up the UNC path and what I'm seeing is whenever file or folder permissions are modified the files are backed up again so I really want to minimise it so that" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1g3czz9) 2024-10-14T10:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Backing up CIFS on NetApp through UNC paths I'm backing up some NetApp shares as uncshare through either NAS client or Windows FS client subclients. If I have 2TB of files in the share and no content changes **but** a permission change is made that seems to result in Commvault seeing all 2TB as changed content. Which means that even though compression/deduplication makes the backup small it's taking the time it takes to read all 2TB. Is there anything I can do at a Commvault level to get around this please CommVault CommVault" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1g756gd) 2024-10-19T09:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Robocopy shows every single file "modified" every single time I'm really struggling to do an incremental copy after a baseline when using any sort of option to try to copy/maintain ACLs after the initial baseline. This thread seems to sum up the issue. https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Fileserver-Migration-with-robocopy/m-p/448594/page/2(https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Fileserver-Migration-with-robocopy/m-p/448594/page/2) I'm going from CIFS on [---] to CIFS on [----]. Same thing seems to happen even using XCP with the ACL options. The issue isn't how long the" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1gecqkr) 2024-10-28T20:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Optimising backup of UNC paths I'm migrating from one NetApp CIFS SVM to another and right now we don't have IntelliSnap licensing so for backups I'm using either a Windows FS iDA subclient with UNC paths or a NAS client. I'm still not sure if that's a separate license or just a "free" logical object where you just have to license the proxies with a FS iDA Instead of having a handful of large volumes Im moving towards having each shared folder as a separate volume because it offers some advantages at a management level. That means that Ill have more subclients to backup. When you have tens or" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1gf0p6o) 2024-10-29T17:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Backup from volumes on DR cluster when using SVM-DR I'm going to have two clusters doing SnapMirror and right now the intention is SVM-DR to keep failover super quick and simple. The backup server is at the DR site so it would be efficient to be able to backup from the DR cluster rather than over a WAN link from the primary. From everything I have read you simply can't create clones or mount volumes that have been replicated to DR using SVM-DR - this seems to be a hard limit specific to SVM-DR. Have I understood correctly please netapp netapp" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1gfuwjg) 2024-10-30T19:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Restoring off multiplexed tape - best way to get sensible throughput Thankfully I've not had to do this much but I need to get a few GB back that is part of some multi-TB file jobs that are split over several tapes due to multiplexing. Is there any way to "optimise" the way Commvault will do the restore i.e. pull all the required files off one tape then the next tape etc. CommVault CommVault" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1gh26xl) 2024-11-01T10:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Physical v logical quotas on volumes After a few threads on here I've gone with SVM-DR and individual departmental volumes on our new C250s. One small thing I've noticed is that if I create a volume and set it to 1TB it looks like that's a physical quote rather than a logical one. So if I want to limit a department to 1TB and I give them a 1TB drive but their data dedupes and compresses to 5TB they could store 5TB which then impacts on backups and other things. Is there a way to set a volume so the logical usage is the size limit through System Manager please netapp netapp" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1gmha53) 2024-11-08T12:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Shoutout for Beyond Compare I've posted a few threads where I'm doing a migration of lots of shared folders from one NAS to another and I've been really struggling with how to get the permissions I want migrated over on the initial copy without the incremental/delta copies taking forever and messing up all the permissions again when trying to copy permissions on anything that's changed. I've tried robocopy XCP from NetApp and FastCopy and each of them has its own set of issues. Where I seem to have ended up is that XCP from NetApp for the initial run does exactly what I want with getting the" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1gt8tan) 2024-11-17T08:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Expressions in subclients I have a UNC backup structure which has departmental folders for depts names A-Z i.e. NASc$A_Dept1 NASc$B_Dept1 NASc$B_Dept2 NASc$B_Dept3 NASc$C_Dept1 NASc$D_Dept1 I want to split these up into multiple subclients and doing this alphabetically has been suggested so one subclient does A-C another E-F or whatever. I'm not clear on the best/right expression to use in the subclient to capture all existing top level folders starting with A-B so that if in the future I add a folder for B_Dept4 it gets backed up automatically. Hope that makes sense :) CommVault CommVault" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1gv1q3w) 2024-11-19T16:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Reversing SVM-DR and moving physical cluster to new location I have 2x C250 and the primary has a CIFS SVM on it that is doing SVM-DR to the secondary. I need to ship the primary C250 to a new location where the CIFS SVM needs to end up running and this may take several days. I know I can shut down the SVM on the primary and do SVM DR to activate the SVM on the secondary. My understanding is that once the primary has shipped and been racked and IP connectivity is back I can then do a reverse resync and fail back the SVM so it's running on the primary in the new location. Appreciate it may" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1gy2vgf) 2024-11-23T16:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "NTP Server Settings I'm using multiple pool.ntp.org(http://pool.ntp.org) servers on my C250s and when I run "cluster time-service ntp status show" occasionally I see "reachable" as "true" and "selection state" as "candidate server". I added the NTP servers about an hour back - does this seem right I read something about ONTAP being a bit fussy about the stratum levels of the NTP servers you use. netapp netapp" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1h0b9og) 2024-11-26T12:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Changing management IPs on cluster I have a [--] node C250 with node management IPs of 192.168.1.1/24(http://192.168.1.1/24) and 192.168.1.2/24(http://192.168.1.2/24) and a cluster IP of 192.168.1.3/24. The SPs are on 192.168.1.4/24(http://192.168.1.4/24) and 192.168.1.5/24. I need to change the lot to use 192.168.2.0/24(http://192.168.2.0/24) with everything keeping the same last octet. Google turns up lots of guides and articles and blogs - is there a "master" guide on how to do this please I'm OK with the CLI but not OK enough just to jump in. I also need to add a new CIFS VLAN and a couple" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1h5tpo0) 2024-12-03T18:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Microsoft Entra Password Protection for on-premises AD Reading the guides it looks as simple as install the proxy on a suitable server (alongside Entra Connect reads as supported/fine) and install the agent on all DCs and set the mode in Entra AD to "audit" and see what gets flagged before flipping to "enforce". How useful actually is it i.e. is "Password123456" still accepted in on-prem AD as a "complex" password after enabling it Any more to installing and enabling it than that please sysadmin sysadmin" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1hu4e6b) 2025-01-05T10:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "SnapMirror Connectivity Could someone please just confirm for me if you change/disrupt connectivity on a NetApp for SnapMirror to continue replicating does any connectivity need to be in place between both boxes other than on the SnapMirror subnet Assuming AFFs running [----] and simple volume or SVM replication and peering is already setup and everything is working. netapp netapp" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1hub5ji) 2025-01-05T16:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "SVM-DR IP Options netapp netapp" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1hwr5wu) 2025-01-08T18:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "NetApp SnapMirror and VMware Those of you with NetApp and VMware can I ask what type of SnapMirror replication you're using if you're using SnapMirror please I have 2x NetApp clusters and 2x VMware clusters in different DCs using NFS datastores The only requirement is that if one site is unavailable there's a reasonably quick way to fire up some/all of the VMs in the other environment - this will be a manual process. SVM-DR was my first thought but this *may* be a bit limited so now I'm thinking regular volume level DR so if needed we can just launch the SVM in the destination site and mount" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1hxfeo2) 2025-01-09T15:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Adding LIF to SnapMirror DP_Destination SVM I have SVM-DR working for an NFS SVM and per my other thread I don't actually need the IPs replicated to the destination SVM so I changed the relationship to "Identity Preserve" and to "Exclude Network Interfaces" which is a one-way trip. I had to use the CLI to remove the existing LIFs on the destination SVM but after triggering a snap mirror update the LIFs didn't get re-created. So now it looks like SVM-DR is working with protocols and everything else replicated to the destination SVM but no IP settings - perfect However now in System Manager if" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1hxlqqu) 2025-01-09T20:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Disabling Windows [--] Upgrade Notifications when using WSUS We use WSUS and I've got a couple reports of people getting Windows [--] upgrade notifications in their notification area. Assume this is Microsoft being Microsoft. I found this but it reads like it applies when using Windows Update for Business and getting updates directly from Microsoft. https://www.anoopcnair.com/hide-upgrade-to-windows-11-is-ready-notification-sccm/(https://www.anoopcnair.com/hide-upgrade-to-windows-11-is-ready-notification-sccm/) As we use WSUS and the upgrade isn't approved I just want to disable these" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1i3cdyk) 2025-01-17T09:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Reversing SVM-DR source/target clusters I have Cluster A and Cluster B and right now Cluster B hosts CIFS SVM1 which uses SVM-DR to replicate to Cluster A. Ideally I need to stop SVM1 on Cluster B activate it on Cluster A but then if possible have SVM-DR continue scheduled hourly snap mirror back to Cluster B until we're ready to move the SVM back to Cluster B permanently which may be in a few weeks time. Unless I'm missing it SnapMirror only looks like it can only fail back at the end it won't do those hourly replicas Is this possible please netapp netapp" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1j3qq3c) 2025-03-05T00:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Aggregate filling up - options I have an old [---] cluster that has [--] aggregates. There is a single CIFS volume on one aggregate and it's filling up with approx 5TB left on the aggregate. I have 10TB spare capacity on the other aggregate of which I can spare approx. 5TB. Is there any way to use some of the capacity on the second aggregate to increase the volume size please I believe this is a what a flexgroup does but I've not used these before and this is just a normal flexvol volume and whilst I can see KB articles on converting volumes I'm cautious of simply jumping in without understanding" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1j3rgqy) 2025-03-05T01:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "How do you handle versions across different clusters On my ticket about the SnapMirror issue I had the engineer did the obvious thing of checking versions. Same major but a very small difference in minor release which is because I'd upgraded one cluster with the intention of testing then upgrading the other cluster to the same version. How do you handle this when you are small enough to only have two clusters and when you're replicating in both directions so you can't really "have the newest version on the destination". He did tell me he's seen some special things when customers tried" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1j5xdk4) 2025-03-07T19:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Snapshot autodelete options My SVM-DR issue has been resolved thanks to support recreating the relationship that the System Manager UI totally messed up. Something I didn't know was that failing over an SVM-DR still leaves some manual work to do around removing the old vserver snapshots under the UUID of the old relationship so every day is a school day. The next challenge is that on the new source SVM (the original destination) there was no snapshot policy on the volumes so that got done from the command line set to the "default" policy. Again I believe this is part of the failover process." [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1j83yxg) 2025-03-10T17:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "What options to enable on CIFS volumes/file shares - best practise I'm cutting across some file shares to a new CIFS SVM on [----]. Client access is almost exclusively all Windows but some limited Mac and Linux. Volumes are all CIFS with NTFS permissions. Whilst I seed and stage I haven't done anything but I'm assuming I should be enabling anti-ransomware (learning first) and file-analytics on each CIFS volumes by default before flipping access over At a sharing level the defaults seem OK other than enabling ABE. More a sanity check than anything as there are lots more options in [----] than" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1jh4vce) 2025-03-22T09:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "SVM-DR - why didn't destination volume auto grow I purposely activated a destination SVM-DR relationship a few weeks back and reverse resynced to the original source. Everything has been fine SnapMirror has been healthy and updating. This week I've been doing some file copies to seed the source SVM and I noticed my SVM-DR relationship was showing unhealthy as a single destination volume had run out of space because the source volume was now larger. In the cli if I look at the destination volume properties it's type DP and autosize is set to "grow". I just resized the destination volume and" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1jh7c7s) 2025-03-22T12:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Making best use of "spare" FAS2720 netapp netapp" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1jy37mf) 2025-04-13T08:44Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "The volume being moved will lose cross-volume deduplication savings. Moving a volume from one aggregate to another I see this in ONTAP System Manager. What does it mean in plain English please The volume is on a C250 running 9.15.1. netapp netapp" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1k1k2d2) 2025-04-17T18:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "CN1610 Compatibility We have a cluster that should be being pulled out in the next year but for now it's there and available to use. AFF220 and FAS2720 nodes with a couple of CN1610 switches. https://kb.netapp.com/on-prem/Switches/NetApp-KBs/Do_I_still_have_support_for_CN1610_switches_reporting_as_limited_support(https://kb.netapp.com/on-prem/Switches/NetApp-KBs/Do_I_still_have_support_for_CN1610_switches_reporting_as_limited_support) Now this says 9.12.1 is the official support limit so I won't go above that but out of curiosity if I did upgrade it further are those cluster switches likely" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1k27cft) 2025-04-18T15:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "How much abuse can a FAS take This is just an anecdote question but as part of re-purposing a couple older FAS units to replace Synology/QNAP type NAS storage it got me wondering what the most abuse is you've seen a FAS or AFF take and keep on trucking and serving up data I always tend to think of power off/on as being the biggest risk for anything with PSUs and moving parts like HDDs. netapp netapp" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1k4b89q) 2025-04-21T11:30Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Red light on PSU but auto support says everything is fine Exactly what it says. I have a C250 running 9.15.1p6 with a red light on the top PSU. ONTAP System Manager shows no issues or alarms and I only know about it because I was in the data center doing a visual check which I do out of habit if I'm onsite. Cable swapped different PDU PSU pulled and reseated still red so ticket raised. Autosupport is showing no errors/issues and is reporting the PSU is providing power so the initial suggestion from support is to reboot the SP on that node as it may be a bug. I'm sure they wouldn't have" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1kbkjbd) 2025-04-30T16:19Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "RDS Start Menu not working firewall rules deleted sysadmin sysadmin" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1lmi6aa) 2025-06-28T08:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Creating SnapMirror of Flexgroup volume I have a flexgroup volume on a source FAS that spans two SAS nodes/aggregates and I'd like to snap mirror it to a destination FAS that has four nodes/aggregates but only two of those are SAS drives. If I create a SnapMirror through the ONTAP web UI will it automatically make the destination volume flexgroup and put them on the SAS aggregates The clusters are 9.13px (source) and 9.11px (destination). I can see docs for creating via the CLI but nothing I've found explains the default UI behaviour. Thank :) netapp netapp" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1lvag7d) 2025-07-09T05:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Windows [--] domain joined machines not offering Windows [--] Upgrade We're trying to get our Windows [--] Pro machines to offer the Windows [--] update via Windows Update so that it's an optional update. GPO points those machines to WSUS and of course if we approve the Windows [--] upgrade in WSUS it'll go with the WSUS policy which is to automatically install. On test laptops I've tried stripping out **every** single setting and disapplying the WSUS GPO and everything I can see publicised to try to ensure we're not blocking Windows [--]. DisableOSUpgrade and DisableGwx are the only settings we've" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1m17rdp) 2025-07-16T09:05Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "EMS shows client registered to wrong installer We have a couple MacOS clients where they have been installed using a specific MacOS installer like all our other MacOS clients. However in EMS under Endpoints/All Endpoints when I look at the client it shows a different and incorrect deployment/installer against that device. I'm finding I can install using the MacOS installer but then the machine picks up the policy that is showing in EMS and downgrades the MacOS client which we don't want. I don't see a way to change the device in EMC so it shows the correct deployment/installer. EMS is 7.4.3." [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1mncjul) 2025-08-11T13:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "Dell Core Services using tons of RAM & CPU on most of our endpoints Seems something has gone crazy with this app as we're seeing high CPU and ridiculous multi-GB RAM usage on lots of machines. Win11 and Win10. So far it *looks* as simple as uninstalling "Dell Core Services" but I'm also struggling to believe this is just impacting us as our build is nothing special or specific that should cause this. I'm also struggling to believe the Dell software can be this badly broken. Anyone else encountered this any any solution other than removing the thing please sysadmin sysadmin" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/1mvplmz) 2025-08-20T20:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements "ONTAP Select I asked about NetApp a few days ago and got some really great input :) Whilst I wait for pricing from our VAR I've been looking and NetApp offer ONTAP Select which is a virtual appliance. For DR and storing older colder data this looks a possibility and as we're buying hosts at the same as replacing our arrays it could be as simple as throwing some disks in the hosts at the DR site and replicating to that from a FAS at primary or we could keep our current block array and renew the support but roll it to DR where the fact it's a slower wouldn't matter. Is there anything I'm" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/8riu0p) 2018-06-16T11:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Ordered NetApp Kit You'll know I asked a metric ton of questions then disappeared a couple of months back. Other priorities kicked in but we just went ahead and ordered pretty much the config I was discussing here: 1x AFF220 + 2x FAS2720's with some disk shelves and 2x Cluster switches for the site we're putting and AFF and FAS into. Bit nervous as it's the most we've spent on a storage project but also reassured that we can't really go wrong with NetApp unless we do something wrong. Again a massive thanks to all who helped this forum contributed massively both technically and with reassuring" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/9nsqvy) 2018-10-13T10:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "OneDrive for Business Backup Druva We're looking at doing a very light touch OneDrive roll-out. We already use [---] for our email. One of the things I'm exploring are backup options. Druva are pitching their [---] backup product which I looked at as I've had experience of their on-premises product. Is anyone using Druva for [---] or any other [---] backup product that they think is worth looking at sysadmin sysadmin" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/hx14nu) 2020-07-24T12:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Crowdstrike without EDR I'm looking at endpoint protection as we have a renewal due. I'm looking at what we could do that's smart and light and I've had a demo of Crowdstrike as I read about it a lot. Good demo and naturally they're pushing their EDR capabilities but even the NGAV looked way ahead of what we use now (Sophos). I'm keen to push for the EDR piece but is anyone using CS without EDR and do you feel you're missing anything sysadmin sysadmin" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/ia38kd) 2020-08-15T07:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Anyone got their whole business running in AWS Right now we're a "traditional" VMware on NFS + CIFS file shares shop using NetApp FAS/AFF. We're starting to do more things where we're looking towards AWS rather than on-premises. With one eye on the future for an SME we can run VM's in AWS or use native AWS services. For "CIFS" file sharing this would appear to be AWS FSx. I know there are companies running **entirely** within AWS but they seem to be "designed" from day one for that kind of thing rather than fork lifting a ton of VM's from VMware into AWS. I doubt we'll ever end up with a" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/in3uxr) 2020-09-05T16:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Moving Commvault Global DDB I'm running [--] latest SP and I have a pair of Windows MA's one of which is ageing a bit. Books online makes it sound like moving the Global DDB to the other MA is as simple as just moving it through the GUI. Anything to be aware of The destination is an NVMe M2 that I'll be formatting with 32KB cluster size but not sure if ReFS or NTFS is recommended Any help appreciated :) sysadmin sysadmin" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/r5rn8w) 2021-11-30T16:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Nessus scan using log4shell template - how to make it work Has anyone got this working using their log4shell template Lots of people seem to be saying it doesn't come back with anything but nobody including Nessus seems to be saying why and how to fix it. https://community.tenable.com/s/question/0D53a00008E4KWICA3/scan-for-log4j-vulnerabilities(https://community.tenable.com/s/question/0D53a00008E4KWICA3/scan-for-log4j-vulnerabilities)" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/rflej2) 2021-12-13T17:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Removing protection relationship and deleting destination volume" [Reddit Link](https://redd.it/zaezhx) 2022-12-02T07:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements Limited data mode. 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Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"vSwitch configuration for NFS vmware vmware"
Reddit Link 2025-01-25T08:47Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Setting ping sensor as master for multiple devices prtg prtg"
Reddit Link 2025-07-29T11:41Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Moving folders in CIFS SVM from ONTAP cli netapp netapp"
Reddit Link 2025-12-03T09:51Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Ransomware protection what more can/should I do netapp netapp"
Reddit Link 2025-11-04T12:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Moving volume between aggregates - non disruptive netapp netapp"
Reddit Link 2025-12-14T07:40Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Protection Policy retention best practises netapp netapp"
Reddit Link 2025-12-14T08:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Netapp AFF C250 Tips n Tricks sysadmin sysadmin"
Reddit Link 2024-09-21T09:08Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Does an SVM need a management IP netapp netapp"
Reddit Link 2025-01-14T11:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Renaming SVM Root Volume [----] and I have an SVM serving NFS to some ESXi hosts. I could do with renaming the root volume due as I think the SVM was renamed shortly after being created but the root volume name wasn't updated. https://kb.netapp.com/on-prem/ontap/Ontap_OS/OS-KBs/Is_renaming_the_SVM_root_volume_disruptive(https://kb.netapp.com/on-prem/ontap/Ontap_OS/OS-KBs/Is_renaming_the_SVM_root_volume_disruptive) Says it's non-disruptive. Is it really If there's any chance of disruption I'll either leave it alone or it'll be a maintenance windows. netapp netapp"
Reddit Link 2025-02-06T18:36Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"365 shops how are you handling SMTP relay when you have lots of on-prem stuff that talks SMTP sysadmin sysadmin"
Reddit Link 2025-05-02T12:29Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"Hosted Monitor best practices prtg prtg"
Reddit Link 2025-06-25T16:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"AFF C250 recommended release netapp netapp"
Reddit Link 2025-09-09T18:48Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
""mgmtgwd.certificate.expiring" - sanity check netapp netapp"
Reddit Link 2025-09-17T12:21Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"KB4525 Script Veeam Veeam"
Reddit Link 2025-11-02T06:31Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"How much do you trust immutable storage to be immutable sysadmin sysadmin"
Reddit Link 2025-10-19T16:45Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"VBR [--] Migration Path Veeam Veeam"
Reddit Link 2025-10-24T10:20Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"PingCastle v Purple Knight or both sysadmin sysadmin"
Reddit Link 2025-11-06T17:37Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Chrome not Auto-Updating sysadmin sysadmin"
Reddit Link 2026-01-19T17:49Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"R740 which ISO to use for ESXi [---] U1 vmware vmware"
Reddit Link 2025-11-26T06:20Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"C250 feedback - anyone using"
Reddit Link 2023-06-16T13:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"CVE-2022-38023 Netlogon Changes and Event ID 5840"
Reddit Link 2023-06-19T10:38Z [----] followers, 37.3K engagements
"C series replication to FAS"
Reddit Link 2023-08-02T11:41Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"SnapMirror destination aggregate filled up"
Reddit Link 2023-09-05T19:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Remote Desktop Services - Should I use User Profile Disks or not"
Reddit Link 2023-09-13T21:09Z [----] followers, 36.9K engagements
"C250 Questions"
Reddit Link 2023-09-14T16:29Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Small replicated vSphere cluster with NetApp Storage"
Reddit Link 2023-09-15T07:38Z [----] followers, 37.4K engagements
"Am I using Unified Replication"
Reddit Link 2023-09-19T14:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Dell PowerStore"
Reddit Link 2023-09-26T14:06Z [--] followers, 38K engagements
"CIFS SVM File Auditing"
Reddit Link 2023-10-18T08:24Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"Restricting guest accounts to specific Enterprise Applications"
Reddit Link 2023-10-24T13:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Microsoft Security Baselines"
Reddit Link 2023-12-04T15:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"KB5034129 & KB5034439 on Server [----] Does anyone know what the hell is wrong with these two updates please I literally have brand new Server [----] VMs that have been built from a Server [----] ISO last week that error out when doing a check for updates and installing these. All I see is 0x80070643 when trying to install KB5034439 and KB5034129 doesn't even give that. There seem to be lots of reports of issues but very little firm around what is happening about them getting fixed. These VMs have a 200GB virtual HDD with the Microsoft recovery partition defaults where I just hit "install" when"
Reddit Link 2024-01-13T17:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"ESXi [--] U2 NTP Configuration - is it really that broken Brand new ESXi [--] U2 host installed from the week old Dell custom ISO image. I go to setup NTP and try to enter multiple NTP hosts with a comma separating them which is exactly what the web UI says to do. It doesn't seem to accept them but it also doesn't give an error message. There is also an "Actions" button that seems to do nothing at all. You know when you see something and think "is it me" but I don't think it can be me. vmware vmware"
Reddit Link 2024-01-17T09:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"New Subscription Pricing for SMBs - Examples I'm reading lots of unclear misleading and supposition about pricing. Does anyone have some real world subscription pricing for a typical SMB customer who might have 3-4 [--] core hosts or who might have an Essentials Plus kit and is currently paying very little in annual support please vmware vmware"
Reddit Link 2024-02-14T08:14Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Query about Compliance GPOs on DCs If I have multiple DCs at different sites and those sites have different compliance requirements and I enforce some of those policies via GPO to the DCs only in those sites that won't somehow force those settings to be applied on the other DCs at other sites will it Things like you find in the CISA and Microsoft Baseline ADMX templates. I'd also like to test these in some larger offices and it would be nice to be able to apply them to a single DC in those sites before applying them to all DCs. I should know this but I'm not 100% sure. sysadmin sysadmin"
Reddit Link 2024-04-12T07:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"krbtgt password reset on CIFS SVM Active Directory domain I have a domain joined CIFS SVM on ONTAP [---] P22. Does anyone know if there is anything specific to ONTAP that I would need to check before doing a krbtgt password reset I know not to do it twice in rapid succession and for those that double as Windows sysadmins I'm planning on using the script here. https://github.com/zjorz/Public-AD-Scripts/blob/master/Reset-KrbTgt-Password-For-RWDCs-And-RODCs.ps1(https://github.com/zjorz/Public-AD-Scripts/blob/master/Reset-KrbTgt-Password-For-RWDCs-And-RODCs.ps1) Thanks :) netapp netapp"
Reddit Link 2024-04-12T16:57Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Upgrading 9.7P22 to 9.12.1 directly I have a pair of clusters running 9.7P22. The primary cluster is 4x nodes with CN1610 switches and the secondary DR cluster is just [--] nodes no switches. I'd like to upgrade the DR cluster to 9.12.1P11 and assuming no issues next step would be the production cluster. The CN1610 looks like there is no support past 9.12.1 and these clusters/nodes should be being replaced later this year probably with some C250s. I'm reading this"
Reddit Link 2024-04-22T12:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"iSCSI Multi-Path Failover Behaviour on ESXi with separate subnets I have a Dell ME5 array and a couple ESXi hosts which are direct connect to the ME5 over 25GbE iSCSI. vmk1 on vswitch1 which is assigned to vmnic1 is 192.168.1.1/24(http://192.168.1.1/24) to Controller A0 which is 192.168.1.2/24(http://192.168.1.2/24) vmk2 on vswitch2 which is assigned to vmnic2 is 192.168.2.1/24(http://192.168.2.1/24) to Controller B0 which is 192.168.2.2/24(http://192.168.2.2/24) In the ESXi iSCSI adaptor I add 192.168.1.2(http://192.168.1.2) and 192.168.2.2(http://192.168.2.2) to the discovery and on the ME5"
Reddit Link 2024-06-26T13:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"C250 Configuration Best Practise So I have a pair of C250's and for each one I have a pair of Juniper EX 25GbE switches. Each C250 is a 12x15TB model. I need to present a CIFS SVM to the domain and I need to present a NFS SVM to a couple of ESXi clusters and the 2x C250's will use snapmirror to replicate between each other. We're going to be paying for some professional services to do the install but I'm trying to wrap my head around what the network configuration is likely to look like. I'm assuming based on our current NetApp cluster that it'll still be pairs of interfaces using LACP to"
Reddit Link 2024-07-09T15:56Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"2x New NetApps Veeam Enterprise Plus how would you do DR I have 2x new NetApp C250s one for prod and one for DR which will be hooked up to ESXi [--] & vCenter [--] Standard using NFS. I'm using Veeam Enterprise Plus for backups so we have that covered but I'm still exploring options for DR at an "everything" and at per VM level One option is to use NetApp SVM replication which as I understand it means if the prod NetApp disappears if we have the right networking in place it can be as simple as powering on the NFS SVM on the DR NetApp and we have datastores back from the last SVM replication point."
Reddit Link 2024-07-20T10:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"2x New NetApps Veeam Enterprise Plus how would you do DR vmware vmware"
Reddit Link 2024-07-20T13:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"XCP v Robocopy for CIFS SVM Migration Pretty much what it says. When I first migrated to NetApp I used robocopy and from memory I also used XCP as I was migrating shares from Windows servers. Now I'm looking at going from a CIFS SVM to a CIFS SVM on a new C series so it will be ONTAP to ONTAP. Is there any need for robocopy in this scenario netapp netapp"
Reddit Link 2024-07-21T11:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"CIFS/SMB - volumes v Qtrees for departmental shares We've had a couple of C250's configured by Professional Services and I'm getting used to ONTAP again as it's not my core job so I'm "bursting" to get up to speed with 9.15P1 and the new System Manager and once I'm up and running it'll calm down again. I have a CIFS SVM that's domain joined and a requirement to server out departmental shares i.e. Marketing and Finance. I don't care how much data any one individual in Marketing or Finance puts in their share but I don't want the Marketing share to grow beyond 1TB and I don't want Finance to"
Reddit Link 2024-09-20T07:19Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Backing up ESXi NFS Datastores I have a couple new NetApp C250s running VMs with ESXi [--] and [--]. I'm using NFSv3 and I want to backup using Veeam. On my old cluster I was using NFSv4 but I'm being steered away from this as it seems there are still more issues with NFSv4 than there are NFSv3. I have a single Veeam B&R server which is also a proxy running as a VM on the new cluster backing up to a physical repo. The number of VMs doesn't justify multiple proxies. Firstly should I be using Direct NFS If I should do I need to do anything more than assign the Veeam server a virtual NIC with an IP on"
Reddit Link 2024-09-20T15:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Enabling Automatic Updates - Yes or No Pretty much what it says and if so what setting i.e. automatic or "show notifications" Context is AFF C250 family. netapp netapp"
Reddit Link 2024-09-24T18:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Veeam Direct NFS Is anyone here using Veeam to backup VM's on NFS with NetApp please If so are you using Direct NFS and if so have you had any issues Or is it as simple as give your proxy an IP on the NFS VLAN and away you go sysadmin sysadmin"
Reddit Link 2024-10-03T18:06Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Backing up NetApp from a DR replica I have a pair of NetApps and I'm looking at doing either SVM or volume replication of CIFS data from production to DR. If the backup server is at the DR site is there a way to backup the CIFS data from the DR NetApp rather than the production one netapp netapp"
Reddit Link 2024-10-10T14:31Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"SnapMirror SVM replication - why wouldn't I I've been playing around with SVM replication today for the first time. My mind is blown :) I have an AD joined CIFS SVM on a production NetApp and I setup SnapMirror SVM replication to a DR NetApp. Went with the option to copy source config including IP settings. I set a continuous ping going and switched off the source so it stopped pinging then I went on the destination and used the "activate destination SVM" option and [--] seconds later the destination SVM was pinging and about [--] seconds later I could browse to it all the shares were there so I"
Reddit Link 2024-10-10T16:41Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"XCP optimal parameters for CIFS to CIFS Copies So if I have a source CIFS SVM and a destination CIFS SVM on the same domain and I want to sync to the new SVM and copy permissions what parameters are people using please xcp sync -root -parallel [--] -acl -fallback-user "Administrator" -fallback-group "Administrators" "source" "dest" Appears to do the job but the XCP docs has a lot of options. I'm backing up using Commvault and backing up the UNC path and what I'm seeing is whenever file or folder permissions are modified the files are backed up again so I really want to minimise it so that"
Reddit Link 2024-10-14T10:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Backing up CIFS on NetApp through UNC paths I'm backing up some NetApp shares as uncshare through either NAS client or Windows FS client subclients. If I have 2TB of files in the share and no content changes but a permission change is made that seems to result in Commvault seeing all 2TB as changed content. Which means that even though compression/deduplication makes the backup small it's taking the time it takes to read all 2TB. Is there anything I can do at a Commvault level to get around this please CommVault CommVault"
Reddit Link 2024-10-19T09:26Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Robocopy shows every single file "modified" every single time I'm really struggling to do an incremental copy after a baseline when using any sort of option to try to copy/maintain ACLs after the initial baseline. This thread seems to sum up the issue. https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Fileserver-Migration-with-robocopy/m-p/448594/page/2(https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Fileserver-Migration-with-robocopy/m-p/448594/page/2) I'm going from CIFS on [---] to CIFS on [----]. Same thing seems to happen even using XCP with the ACL options. The issue isn't how long the"
Reddit Link 2024-10-28T20:46Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Optimising backup of UNC paths I'm migrating from one NetApp CIFS SVM to another and right now we don't have IntelliSnap licensing so for backups I'm using either a Windows FS iDA subclient with UNC paths or a NAS client. I'm still not sure if that's a separate license or just a "free" logical object where you just have to license the proxies with a FS iDA Instead of having a handful of large volumes Im moving towards having each shared folder as a separate volume because it offers some advantages at a management level. That means that Ill have more subclients to backup. When you have tens or"
Reddit Link 2024-10-29T17:47Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Backup from volumes on DR cluster when using SVM-DR I'm going to have two clusters doing SnapMirror and right now the intention is SVM-DR to keep failover super quick and simple. The backup server is at the DR site so it would be efficient to be able to backup from the DR cluster rather than over a WAN link from the primary. From everything I have read you simply can't create clones or mount volumes that have been replicated to DR using SVM-DR - this seems to be a hard limit specific to SVM-DR. Have I understood correctly please netapp netapp"
Reddit Link 2024-10-30T19:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Restoring off multiplexed tape - best way to get sensible throughput Thankfully I've not had to do this much but I need to get a few GB back that is part of some multi-TB file jobs that are split over several tapes due to multiplexing. Is there any way to "optimise" the way Commvault will do the restore i.e. pull all the required files off one tape then the next tape etc. CommVault CommVault"
Reddit Link 2024-11-01T10:25Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Physical v logical quotas on volumes After a few threads on here I've gone with SVM-DR and individual departmental volumes on our new C250s. One small thing I've noticed is that if I create a volume and set it to 1TB it looks like that's a physical quote rather than a logical one. So if I want to limit a department to 1TB and I give them a 1TB drive but their data dedupes and compresses to 5TB they could store 5TB which then impacts on backups and other things. Is there a way to set a volume so the logical usage is the size limit through System Manager please netapp netapp"
Reddit Link 2024-11-08T12:23Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Shoutout for Beyond Compare I've posted a few threads where I'm doing a migration of lots of shared folders from one NAS to another and I've been really struggling with how to get the permissions I want migrated over on the initial copy without the incremental/delta copies taking forever and messing up all the permissions again when trying to copy permissions on anything that's changed. I've tried robocopy XCP from NetApp and FastCopy and each of them has its own set of issues. Where I seem to have ended up is that XCP from NetApp for the initial run does exactly what I want with getting the"
Reddit Link 2024-11-17T08:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Expressions in subclients I have a UNC backup structure which has departmental folders for depts names A-Z i.e. NASc$A_Dept1 NASc$B_Dept1 NASc$B_Dept2 NASc$B_Dept3 NASc$C_Dept1 NASc$D_Dept1 I want to split these up into multiple subclients and doing this alphabetically has been suggested so one subclient does A-C another E-F or whatever. I'm not clear on the best/right expression to use in the subclient to capture all existing top level folders starting with A-B so that if in the future I add a folder for B_Dept4 it gets backed up automatically. Hope that makes sense :) CommVault CommVault"
Reddit Link 2024-11-19T16:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Reversing SVM-DR and moving physical cluster to new location I have 2x C250 and the primary has a CIFS SVM on it that is doing SVM-DR to the secondary. I need to ship the primary C250 to a new location where the CIFS SVM needs to end up running and this may take several days. I know I can shut down the SVM on the primary and do SVM DR to activate the SVM on the secondary. My understanding is that once the primary has shipped and been racked and IP connectivity is back I can then do a reverse resync and fail back the SVM so it's running on the primary in the new location. Appreciate it may"
Reddit Link 2024-11-23T16:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"NTP Server Settings I'm using multiple pool.ntp.org(http://pool.ntp.org) servers on my C250s and when I run "cluster time-service ntp status show" occasionally I see "reachable" as "true" and "selection state" as "candidate server". I added the NTP servers about an hour back - does this seem right I read something about ONTAP being a bit fussy about the stratum levels of the NTP servers you use. netapp netapp"
Reddit Link 2024-11-26T12:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Changing management IPs on cluster I have a [--] node C250 with node management IPs of 192.168.1.1/24(http://192.168.1.1/24) and 192.168.1.2/24(http://192.168.1.2/24) and a cluster IP of 192.168.1.3/24. The SPs are on 192.168.1.4/24(http://192.168.1.4/24) and 192.168.1.5/24. I need to change the lot to use 192.168.2.0/24(http://192.168.2.0/24) with everything keeping the same last octet. Google turns up lots of guides and articles and blogs - is there a "master" guide on how to do this please I'm OK with the CLI but not OK enough just to jump in. I also need to add a new CIFS VLAN and a couple"
Reddit Link 2024-12-03T18:04Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Microsoft Entra Password Protection for on-premises AD Reading the guides it looks as simple as install the proxy on a suitable server (alongside Entra Connect reads as supported/fine) and install the agent on all DCs and set the mode in Entra AD to "audit" and see what gets flagged before flipping to "enforce". How useful actually is it i.e. is "Password123456" still accepted in on-prem AD as a "complex" password after enabling it Any more to installing and enabling it than that please sysadmin sysadmin"
Reddit Link 2025-01-05T10:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"SnapMirror Connectivity Could someone please just confirm for me if you change/disrupt connectivity on a NetApp for SnapMirror to continue replicating does any connectivity need to be in place between both boxes other than on the SnapMirror subnet Assuming AFFs running [----] and simple volume or SVM replication and peering is already setup and everything is working. netapp netapp"
Reddit Link 2025-01-05T16:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"SVM-DR IP Options netapp netapp"
Reddit Link 2025-01-08T18:32Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"NetApp SnapMirror and VMware Those of you with NetApp and VMware can I ask what type of SnapMirror replication you're using if you're using SnapMirror please I have 2x NetApp clusters and 2x VMware clusters in different DCs using NFS datastores The only requirement is that if one site is unavailable there's a reasonably quick way to fire up some/all of the VMs in the other environment - this will be a manual process. SVM-DR was my first thought but this may be a bit limited so now I'm thinking regular volume level DR so if needed we can just launch the SVM in the destination site and mount"
Reddit Link 2025-01-09T15:35Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Adding LIF to SnapMirror DP_Destination SVM I have SVM-DR working for an NFS SVM and per my other thread I don't actually need the IPs replicated to the destination SVM so I changed the relationship to "Identity Preserve" and to "Exclude Network Interfaces" which is a one-way trip. I had to use the CLI to remove the existing LIFs on the destination SVM but after triggering a snap mirror update the LIFs didn't get re-created. So now it looks like SVM-DR is working with protocols and everything else replicated to the destination SVM but no IP settings - perfect However now in System Manager if"
Reddit Link 2025-01-09T20:01Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Disabling Windows [--] Upgrade Notifications when using WSUS We use WSUS and I've got a couple reports of people getting Windows [--] upgrade notifications in their notification area. Assume this is Microsoft being Microsoft. I found this but it reads like it applies when using Windows Update for Business and getting updates directly from Microsoft. https://www.anoopcnair.com/hide-upgrade-to-windows-11-is-ready-notification-sccm/(https://www.anoopcnair.com/hide-upgrade-to-windows-11-is-ready-notification-sccm/) As we use WSUS and the upgrade isn't approved I just want to disable these"
Reddit Link 2025-01-17T09:07Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Reversing SVM-DR source/target clusters I have Cluster A and Cluster B and right now Cluster B hosts CIFS SVM1 which uses SVM-DR to replicate to Cluster A. Ideally I need to stop SVM1 on Cluster B activate it on Cluster A but then if possible have SVM-DR continue scheduled hourly snap mirror back to Cluster B until we're ready to move the SVM back to Cluster B permanently which may be in a few weeks time. Unless I'm missing it SnapMirror only looks like it can only fail back at the end it won't do those hourly replicas Is this possible please netapp netapp"
Reddit Link 2025-03-05T00:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Aggregate filling up - options I have an old [---] cluster that has [--] aggregates. There is a single CIFS volume on one aggregate and it's filling up with approx 5TB left on the aggregate. I have 10TB spare capacity on the other aggregate of which I can spare approx. 5TB. Is there any way to use some of the capacity on the second aggregate to increase the volume size please I believe this is a what a flexgroup does but I've not used these before and this is just a normal flexvol volume and whilst I can see KB articles on converting volumes I'm cautious of simply jumping in without understanding"
Reddit Link 2025-03-05T01:29Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"How do you handle versions across different clusters On my ticket about the SnapMirror issue I had the engineer did the obvious thing of checking versions. Same major but a very small difference in minor release which is because I'd upgraded one cluster with the intention of testing then upgrading the other cluster to the same version. How do you handle this when you are small enough to only have two clusters and when you're replicating in both directions so you can't really "have the newest version on the destination". He did tell me he's seen some special things when customers tried"
Reddit Link 2025-03-07T19:15Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Snapshot autodelete options My SVM-DR issue has been resolved thanks to support recreating the relationship that the System Manager UI totally messed up. Something I didn't know was that failing over an SVM-DR still leaves some manual work to do around removing the old vserver snapshots under the UUID of the old relationship so every day is a school day. The next challenge is that on the new source SVM (the original destination) there was no snapshot policy on the volumes so that got done from the command line set to the "default" policy. Again I believe this is part of the failover process."
Reddit Link 2025-03-10T17:20Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"What options to enable on CIFS volumes/file shares - best practise I'm cutting across some file shares to a new CIFS SVM on [----]. Client access is almost exclusively all Windows but some limited Mac and Linux. Volumes are all CIFS with NTFS permissions. Whilst I seed and stage I haven't done anything but I'm assuming I should be enabling anti-ransomware (learning first) and file-analytics on each CIFS volumes by default before flipping access over At a sharing level the defaults seem OK other than enabling ABE. More a sanity check than anything as there are lots more options in [----] than"
Reddit Link 2025-03-22T09:42Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"SVM-DR - why didn't destination volume auto grow I purposely activated a destination SVM-DR relationship a few weeks back and reverse resynced to the original source. Everything has been fine SnapMirror has been healthy and updating. This week I've been doing some file copies to seed the source SVM and I noticed my SVM-DR relationship was showing unhealthy as a single destination volume had run out of space because the source volume was now larger. In the cli if I look at the destination volume properties it's type DP and autosize is set to "grow". I just resized the destination volume and"
Reddit Link 2025-03-22T12:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Making best use of "spare" FAS2720 netapp netapp"
Reddit Link 2025-04-13T08:44Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"The volume being moved will lose cross-volume deduplication savings. Moving a volume from one aggregate to another I see this in ONTAP System Manager. What does it mean in plain English please The volume is on a C250 running 9.15.1. netapp netapp"
Reddit Link 2025-04-17T18:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"CN1610 Compatibility We have a cluster that should be being pulled out in the next year but for now it's there and available to use. AFF220 and FAS2720 nodes with a couple of CN1610 switches. https://kb.netapp.com/on-prem/Switches/NetApp-KBs/Do_I_still_have_support_for_CN1610_switches_reporting_as_limited_support(https://kb.netapp.com/on-prem/Switches/NetApp-KBs/Do_I_still_have_support_for_CN1610_switches_reporting_as_limited_support) Now this says 9.12.1 is the official support limit so I won't go above that but out of curiosity if I did upgrade it further are those cluster switches likely"
Reddit Link 2025-04-18T15:14Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"How much abuse can a FAS take This is just an anecdote question but as part of re-purposing a couple older FAS units to replace Synology/QNAP type NAS storage it got me wondering what the most abuse is you've seen a FAS or AFF take and keep on trucking and serving up data I always tend to think of power off/on as being the biggest risk for anything with PSUs and moving parts like HDDs. netapp netapp"
Reddit Link 2025-04-21T11:30Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Red light on PSU but auto support says everything is fine Exactly what it says. I have a C250 running 9.15.1p6 with a red light on the top PSU. ONTAP System Manager shows no issues or alarms and I only know about it because I was in the data center doing a visual check which I do out of habit if I'm onsite. Cable swapped different PDU PSU pulled and reseated still red so ticket raised. Autosupport is showing no errors/issues and is reporting the PSU is providing power so the initial suggestion from support is to reboot the SP on that node as it may be a bug. I'm sure they wouldn't have"
Reddit Link 2025-04-30T16:19Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"RDS Start Menu not working firewall rules deleted sysadmin sysadmin"
Reddit Link 2025-06-28T08:52Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Creating SnapMirror of Flexgroup volume I have a flexgroup volume on a source FAS that spans two SAS nodes/aggregates and I'd like to snap mirror it to a destination FAS that has four nodes/aggregates but only two of those are SAS drives. If I create a SnapMirror through the ONTAP web UI will it automatically make the destination volume flexgroup and put them on the SAS aggregates The clusters are 9.13px (source) and 9.11px (destination). I can see docs for creating via the CLI but nothing I've found explains the default UI behaviour. Thank :) netapp netapp"
Reddit Link 2025-07-09T05:10Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Windows [--] domain joined machines not offering Windows [--] Upgrade We're trying to get our Windows [--] Pro machines to offer the Windows [--] update via Windows Update so that it's an optional update. GPO points those machines to WSUS and of course if we approve the Windows [--] upgrade in WSUS it'll go with the WSUS policy which is to automatically install. On test laptops I've tried stripping out every single setting and disapplying the WSUS GPO and everything I can see publicised to try to ensure we're not blocking Windows [--]. DisableOSUpgrade and DisableGwx are the only settings we've"
Reddit Link 2025-07-16T09:05Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"EMS shows client registered to wrong installer We have a couple MacOS clients where they have been installed using a specific MacOS installer like all our other MacOS clients. However in EMS under Endpoints/All Endpoints when I look at the client it shows a different and incorrect deployment/installer against that device. I'm finding I can install using the MacOS installer but then the machine picks up the policy that is showing in EMS and downgrades the MacOS client which we don't want. I don't see a way to change the device in EMC so it shows the correct deployment/installer. EMS is 7.4.3."
Reddit Link 2025-08-11T13:09Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"Dell Core Services using tons of RAM & CPU on most of our endpoints Seems something has gone crazy with this app as we're seeing high CPU and ridiculous multi-GB RAM usage on lots of machines. Win11 and Win10. So far it looks as simple as uninstalling "Dell Core Services" but I'm also struggling to believe this is just impacting us as our build is nothing special or specific that should cause this. I'm also struggling to believe the Dell software can be this badly broken. Anyone else encountered this any any solution other than removing the thing please sysadmin sysadmin"
Reddit Link 2025-08-20T20:01Z [--] followers, [--] engagements
"ONTAP Select I asked about NetApp a few days ago and got some really great input :) Whilst I wait for pricing from our VAR I've been looking and NetApp offer ONTAP Select which is a virtual appliance. For DR and storing older colder data this looks a possibility and as we're buying hosts at the same as replacing our arrays it could be as simple as throwing some disks in the hosts at the DR site and replicating to that from a FAS at primary or we could keep our current block array and renew the support but roll it to DR where the fact it's a slower wouldn't matter. Is there anything I'm"
Reddit Link 2018-06-16T11:40Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Ordered NetApp Kit You'll know I asked a metric ton of questions then disappeared a couple of months back. Other priorities kicked in but we just went ahead and ordered pretty much the config I was discussing here: 1x AFF220 + 2x FAS2720's with some disk shelves and 2x Cluster switches for the site we're putting and AFF and FAS into. Bit nervous as it's the most we've spent on a storage project but also reassured that we can't really go wrong with NetApp unless we do something wrong. Again a massive thanks to all who helped this forum contributed massively both technically and with reassuring"
Reddit Link 2018-10-13T10:13Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"OneDrive for Business Backup Druva We're looking at doing a very light touch OneDrive roll-out. We already use [---] for our email. One of the things I'm exploring are backup options. Druva are pitching their [---] backup product which I looked at as I've had experience of their on-premises product. Is anyone using Druva for [---] or any other [---] backup product that they think is worth looking at sysadmin sysadmin"
Reddit Link 2020-07-24T12:45Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Crowdstrike without EDR I'm looking at endpoint protection as we have a renewal due. I'm looking at what we could do that's smart and light and I've had a demo of Crowdstrike as I read about it a lot. Good demo and naturally they're pushing their EDR capabilities but even the NGAV looked way ahead of what we use now (Sophos). I'm keen to push for the EDR piece but is anyone using CS without EDR and do you feel you're missing anything sysadmin sysadmin"
Reddit Link 2020-08-15T07:30Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Anyone got their whole business running in AWS Right now we're a "traditional" VMware on NFS + CIFS file shares shop using NetApp FAS/AFF. We're starting to do more things where we're looking towards AWS rather than on-premises. With one eye on the future for an SME we can run VM's in AWS or use native AWS services. For "CIFS" file sharing this would appear to be AWS FSx. I know there are companies running entirely within AWS but they seem to be "designed" from day one for that kind of thing rather than fork lifting a ton of VM's from VMware into AWS. I doubt we'll ever end up with a"
Reddit Link 2020-09-05T16:17Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Moving Commvault Global DDB I'm running [--] latest SP and I have a pair of Windows MA's one of which is ageing a bit. Books online makes it sound like moving the Global DDB to the other MA is as simple as just moving it through the GUI. Anything to be aware of The destination is an NVMe M2 that I'll be formatting with 32KB cluster size but not sure if ReFS or NTFS is recommended Any help appreciated :) sysadmin sysadmin"
Reddit Link 2021-11-30T16:54Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Nessus scan using log4shell template - how to make it work Has anyone got this working using their log4shell template Lots of people seem to be saying it doesn't come back with anything but nobody including Nessus seems to be saying why and how to fix it. https://community.tenable.com/s/question/0D53a00008E4KWICA3/scan-for-log4j-vulnerabilities(https://community.tenable.com/s/question/0D53a00008E4KWICA3/scan-for-log4j-vulnerabilities)"
Reddit Link 2021-12-13T17:44Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Removing protection relationship and deleting destination volume"
Reddit Link 2022-12-02T07:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
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