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Operations Manager Permissions

community@netapp.com — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:49:42 GMT

I am seeing Access violations for OM Database Backups

I was however able to set schedule and take archive backups with dfm backup cli.

Also the dfm user cannot login with login ,but works with setup->Administrative Users link ,

Could this be any Domain Authentication/Security Issue ?

Thanks

SMVI Nightly Snapshot Job Failing

community@netapp.com — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:09:53 GMT

Hey there I am on SMVI 1.2 R1. And every night it snapshots all the vm's on 3 volumes. A total of 40 or so vm's. It never fails though each night some servers come back and say.....

2009-11-20 01:00:56,133 WARN - VMware Task "CreateSnapshot_Task" for entity "Server 1" failed with the following error: Operation timed out.
2009-11-20 01:00:56,164 ERROR - VM "Server 1" will not be backed up since vmware snapshot create operation failed.

It is never the same server each night. And on top of this some servers still leave the smvi snapshot in snapshot manager in VMWare's VI. I have to manually go in and check each server then delete that snapshot if it's still there.

Any ideas please? Thanks

SnapManager for SQL SnapInfo sizing

community@netapp.com — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:34:17 GMT

Does anyone have any solid SMSQL snapinfo volume sizing guidelines? The SMSQL admin guide does a good job explaining sizing for the databases, logs but not good at all for sizing the snapinfo directory.

http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/SnapManager/relsmsql211/html/software/admin/plandat4.htm

Is there a formula that I can use for snapinfo? There's one for database and logs volumes but not for snapinfo. I find myself totally guessing what this number should be when doing snapmanager work for a client. How are we supposed to come up with an accurate snapinfo lun and volume size?

Any suggestions?

Cheers

Ian

Message was edited by: Ian Forbes

How do I specify an IP interface for a SnapVault policy in Protection Manager?

community@netapp.com — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:50:42 GMT

Hi:

I created a policy in Protection Manager to kick off a snapvault backup. We have our e0M interfaces restricted for management only, and all snapvault traffic is directed toward the VIF interface. We do this with the "snapvault.access host=all AND if=vif1".

However, my snapvault job failed because Protection Manager kicked off the relationship with the IP of the system that it discovered - which happens to be e0M.

Here's an example - notice how the source qtree is using the IP of the system, instead of the hostname:

tgt Thu Nov 19 10:08:00 EST ChrisPoz_backup create: Target_start
dst Thu Nov 19 10:08:00 EST 113.132.194.251:/vol/test1/NAS_IN emlana16:/vol/ChrisPoz_backup/NAS_IN Request (Retry)
dst Thu Nov 19 10:08:00 EST 113.132.194.251:/vol/test1/- emlana16:/vol/ChrisPoz_backup/ChrisPoz_emlana14_test1 Request (Retry)
dst Thu Nov 19 10:08:01 EST 113.132.194.251:/vol/test1/qtree_OLD_IN emlana16:/vol/ChrisPoz_backup/qtree_OLD_IN Abort (could not read from socket)
dst Thu Nov 19 10:08:01 EST 113.132.194.251:/vol/test1/- emlana16:/vol/ChrisPoz_backup/ChrisPoz_emlana14_test1 Abort (could not read from socket)
dst Thu Nov 19 10:08:02 EST 113.132.194.251:/vol/test1/NAS_IN emlana16:/vol/ChrisPoz_backup/NAS_IN Abort (could not read from socket)
tgt Thu Nov 19 10:08:03 EST ChrisPoz_backup create: Target_end

How do I specify that Protection Manager use the hostname of a system - or point it to the VIF interface. I do NOT want to rediscover this system through Operations Manager!

Thanks,

Chris

DFM 3.8 & NMC

community@netapp.com — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:57:16 GMT

Hello all;

I have deploying DFM 3.8 in windows 2003

the DFM server is operational and i can have all informations with the Operation manager browser. But, when i try to connect the NMC, i see objects that i have created (one object / filer ) but i can open the object and see informations about this object (it's seems empty).

I try the NMC in the DFM server & in others servers

Somebody have an idea ?

Qtrees capacity don't show up in DFM

terrence.lee@netapp.com — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:59:47 GMT

Hi,

I just found out that there are several qtrees of few filers don't have the qtree capacity shown in the DFM. I have checked the qtree quotas are set and quota turned on. The DFM version is 3.7.

Any idea?

Regards,

Terrence

Setting Thresholds in PA - How do you do it?

nagendrk@netapp.com — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:27:23 GMT

Hi Folks,

One of the consistent request from Performance Advisor customers is to provide them guidance on what performance counters to be monitored for a given workload and what should be the threshold values set for these performance counters. I need help from you to know how you go about setting what performance counters to be monitored and what threshold to be set for these counters for the following workloads:

1. Windows Apps (Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint)

2. CIFS Workloads (Home dir etc)

3. NFS Workloads (Home dir etc)

4. DB2

5. Oracle

6. SAP

7. Sybase

Any details on the above will be really helpful to understand how customers use PA to set thresholds.

volume-autosized events in OM 3.8

matthewt@netapp.com — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:43:24 GMT

All,

I see some old BURT activity around this but wanted to ask the communities before openning a case and BURT.

I have DFM 3.8 and am rolling out vol autosize in a limited environment. I see that DFM 3.8 has an event to record this with a default of "information" severity.

I have enabled the autosize rule on some volumes and watched it work. I do not see that DFM events of any severity have been recorded.

Does anyone else have experience with these events being created properly?

SnapVault Fan-in with Protection Manager?

community@netapp.com — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:52:55 GMT

The subject of interest is a documented process (with examples) for Using Protection Manager to facilitate SnapVault fan-in. Nothing out of the ordinary, this would be the typical model for doing fan-in of multiple Primary volumes to a single secondary volume. The Primary volumes could be from multiple filers.

To be clear, I have seen:

http://communities.netapp.com/message/12857#12857 - similar discussion, some recommendations, but the thread still doesn't make it clear on HOW TO DO fan-in with Protection Manager.

The "Dynamic Secondary Volume Sizing" in the http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/DFM_win/rel38/pdfs/protect. doc. While it's good that it identifies that it can be done, it's still not clear How to set it up. Especially so if you're trying to do end-to-end automation with Protection Manager and the SDK / API's.

I've seen a couple of PPT animations that show how Protection Manager can facilitate fan in, but no step by step instructions, or screenprints or examples on how to accomplish such.

And.. since all customers use cases are different... here is what an example of what they'd like to accomplish. This is a fairly simple example of how they'd like to control the naming of the primay volumes / secondary volumes and relationships... if possible.

Example:

Source volumes:
- FilerA: /vol/ACME_DB_Data/qtree/lun1
- FilerA: /vol/ACME_DB_Logs/qtree/lun2
- FilerB: /vol/ACME_App_Data/qtree/lun11
- FilerC: /vol/ACME_App_Logs/qtree/lun12

Destination volume:
- FilerZ: /vol/ACME/ACME/FilerA_ACME_DB_Data/lun1
            /vol/ACME/ACME/FilerA_ACME_DB_Logs/lun2
            /vol/ACME/ACME/FilerB_ACME_App_Data/lun11
            /vol/ACME/ACME/FilerC_ACME_App_Logs/lun12

Reason: They're running out of flexvols on the secondary and stranding storage. Currently the secondaries are only repositories for off frame copies. Hosts do NOT attach to the secondaries for data recovery.

Total_processor_busy Avg_processor_busy

community@netapp.com — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:52:10 GMT

Customer is seeing this with below Performance Counters

Total_processor_busy is over 80% at times but

Avg_processor_busy and cpu_busy are well under 55% as per the thresholds set in their environment,

They want to know how can total_processor_busy can differ from avg processor_busy with this much difference ?

Here is the definition on the counters

System Object

cpu_busy
Percentage of time one or more processors is busy in the system
Note: For systems running
Data ONTAP versions 7.2 or earlier, the cpu_busy counter is the amount of time that any one CPU is busy. This results in a value for cpu_busy that is inflated. For systems running Data ONTAP versions 7.2.1 or later, the cpu_busy counter is the greater of either average CPU utilization or the busiest domain.

avg_processor_busy
Average processor utilization across all processors in the system

total_processor_busy
Total processor utilization of all processors in the system

ONTAP SDK Deduplication Performance

community@netapp.com — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:03:25 GMT

Hi Community,

Is there a counter in our ONTAP SDK to show what deduplication is doing in the background?

Thanks

Jeff