NetApp PowerShell Toolkit 101: Data Protection
Protecting data is arguably the most important job that your storage is entrusted with. Losing data is simply not an option, so it’s critical to protect data through the use of backups and replication....
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NetApp vRealize Integration Package for OnCommand WFA version 3.0.1
Not too long ago we released a new version of the vRealize Integration Package for OnCommand WFA v3.0, which had a significant number of improvements around speed, flexibility, and overall robustness....
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NetApp NFS Mount Access Denied By Server
Just a quick tip today. While setting up a lab I had the need to mount a cDOT (8.3.0) export from behind a NAT gateway. When attempting the mount operation I got a relatively unhelpful error: After...
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Populate vRO workflow inputs from WFA 3.0 using REST
One of the challenges when using the NetApp vRO Package for WFA has been making the inputs dynamically populate with the correct information from WFA. If you add a new volume, aggregate, SVM, or other...
View ArticlecDOT Performance Monitoring Using PowerShell
Performance monitoring is a complex topic, but it’s something that is vital to the successful implementation and maintenance of any system. In the past I’ve had several posts about using Perl for...
View ArticlecDOT Environment Monitoring Using PowerShell
Environmental information, for example temperature, fan speed, etc., provide critical information about the health of your clustered Data ONTAP system. Depending on your version of ONTAP, you can query...
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NetApp PowerShell Toolkit: Aggregate Overcommitment Report
I recently encountered a posting on the NetApp Community asking about, among other things, allocated capacity for an aggregate. As you can see in my response, I created a quick scriptlet which displays...
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NetApp PowerShell Toolkit – Templates
There’s one particular part of the NetApp PowerShell Toolkit which is not frequently used, but is extremely powerful. Templates can be created for many of the object types which are used to create a...
View ArticleNetApp PowerShell Toolkit: Authentication
There are multiple ways to do authentication to NetApp systems when using the PowerShell Toolkit. This ranges from the simple and obvious one-time connection, to securely storing credentials for future...
View ArticleNetApp PowerShell Toolkit 101: Volume Snapshots
Snapshots are one of the core features of ONTAP, and something that many, many people rely on every day to protect their data from accidental (or malicious…) deletion and corruption. The NetApp...
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