Boot version info.
Greetings, I'm replacing a 3140 with a 3270 stand-alone NearStore replacement. The current 3140 OS is 8.1.2P3 and the new head shipped with 8.1.2.
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I just did this yesterday... if you connect e0a or e0b to the network, boot off the compact flash and interrupt the boot process after the LOADER but
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Tim, I'll give it a try. I tried doing the same thing a few months ago on a 6080 and it wouldn't update the flash. I had my doubts about those flas
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really? I did that too... I got the netboot file, extracted it. ifconfig e0a -addr=my.ip -mask=my.mask -gw=my.gw netboot http://web.server/path/to/k
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On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 1:30 PM, tmac <tmacmd@gmail.com> wrote: > really? I did that too... > > I got the netboot file, extracted it. > > ifconfig e0
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From what I could gather, if you netboot, you cannot write to the cfcard...it stays RO until you boot from the cfcard. As long as you netboot, softwar
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NetBoot is supported to reimage the boot device (CF or UFM) which is what you want here. Net booting into full Data ONTAP is indeed not supported.
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Tim, Thanks for the information. That worked for me. I was unclear about what image to use for what. I ultimately used the regular install image i
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No Problem. The "kernel" file is what is needed for netboot from the LOADER prompt. The standard tgz file (the same one used to upgrade ontap from w
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Rafal, NetApp's definition of "non-disruptive" is generally not what most people consider non-disruptive :-) It does cause nfs outages during these
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Hi Jeff, the non-disruptiveness also depends upon what protocol version you're using: Version 3 doesn't have sessions, so there's no session infos to
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Hi Rafal, what kind of outages are visible for your NFS clients? Are you using the "hard" mount option? Bye, Alexander Griesser System-Administrato
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It has been my experience that the failover has an extremely minimal impact to NFS clients. The giveback typically will impact the NFS client for 30-
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Hi, I used to not see any issue with nfs mounts during cf events. When we went to RHEL 6 with NFSv4 as the default, then unix hosts started having a
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Hello Scott: The key here is that you switched to NFSv4. Previously versions of NFS were connectionless. This was seen as a good thing because it m
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I understand the session issues and agree that we should not have abruptly gone to v4. But our unix admins believe otherwise. ---- Scott Eno s.en
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Sebastian, My definition of non-disruptive is "nobody notices". When I start getting visits from engineers or support calls saying the network is do
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Hi Jeff, I completely agree... It all depends on what the applications (or users) can tolerate. It's like, using CIFS/SMB, "most applications will t
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If you are running a virtual environment such as vmware, you want to make sure you are using the timeout advanced options settings specified in the vm
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