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 SnapMirror
Summary: This post describes how to setup replication between two NetApp filers using SnapMirror.
Date: Around 2014
Refactor: 13 February 2025: Checked links and formatting.
Configuring this is pretty forward, but there is a big catch, which will never show by error messages: ALWAYS USE HOSTNAMES! I had several issues when using IP addresses or when mixing IP addresses and hostnames. Also, in a simulated environment use different names for the volumes. That's only in a simulated environment, in my production environment I had no issues while using the same names for the volumes. This was confirmed while googling for the error.
NetApp Reboot
Summary: How to reboot a Netapp Filer.
Date: Around 2015
Refactor: 7 March 2025: Checked links and formatting.
NetApp Operations Manager
Summary: How to setup NetApp Operations Manager.
Date: Around 2015
Refactor: 7 March 2025: Checked links and formatting.
Remove MetroCluster SyncMirror
Summary: How to remove a syncmirror relationship for a NetApp metrocluster.
Date: Around 2015
Refactor: 7 March 2025: Checked links and formatting.
To free up disk space we had to remove a syncmirror relationship for a NetApp metrocluster. The metrocluster functionality was not used, only normal HA functionality. So these are the steps we took, and it was actually quite easy.