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I’m in the middle of a file server migration and attempting to consolidate two old File Servers onto our FAS2040 running Data OnTap 7.3.6. Using a tool called Beyond Compare I begin by syncing the content from one file server over to the NetApp. Beyond Compare did the bulk of my sanity checking for me by verifying the contents … Read more
This patch Tuesday after reboots we had users trying to login to OWA on our Exchange 2003 servers. They would authenticate fine and see their folder list but could not see the contents of their inbox or interact in anyway with the OWA interface. Users that chose the ‘Basic’ OWA interface could see their e-mail … Read more
I did a V2V conversion of a CentOS 6 machine from Hyper-V to vSphere. After the migration I was left with a legacy NIC that would throw up a warning when ever I tried to vMotion the CentOS 6 VM. It didn’t prevent me from moving the machine around our cluster but it was an … Read more
I suspect this problem isn’t limited to just managing CIFS shares on NetApp’s. I bet if you’ve got a Windows File Server and you’re trying to edit NTFS permissions on shares via a Windows 2008 Computer Management MMC you’ll get this error message. In our case we’ve got a NetApp FAS2040 joined to our new AD forest with a … Read more
When drives in a NetApp are being obsoleted and replaced we need to make sure we securely erase all data that used to be on them. Unless you’re just going to crush your disks. In this example we’ve got an aggregate of 14 disks (aggr0) that need to be wiped and removed from our NetApp … Read more