So ONTAP 7.3.2 just became GD.
- Has anyone taken the plunge — GA or GD alike?
- What platform are you running?
- What are your licensed features — NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, FC, Multistore, API, etc?
- Any gotchas to report from in-the-field?
Netapp ONTAP 7.3 – Upgrade gotchas
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This makes perfect sense - as you know the original data will reside on disk in it's original location and not be copied. Only the references to it will change:
Now you can delete the data you don't need in the respective locations, delete the snapshot (I think) and do a vol clone split:
Starts the process of splitting the FlexClone volume named Widget from its parent FlexVol volume. The split will make a copy of all blocks associated with the FlexClone volume that currently reside in the parent FlexVol volume. The process can take a while to complete and proceeds in the background. Afterward, the volume will be an independent FlexVol volume with space guarantees reenabled.
(if it doesn't let you delete the snapshot, you'll need to do the split first, resulting in copying the data)
source: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp4133.pdf
To get the status of ABE on the shares
Connect-NAController <VfilerName>
Get-NaCifsShare | ft ShareName,IsAccessBasedEnum
and to set ABE for a specific share
Connect-NAController <VfilerName>
Set-NACifsShare -Share <Share_Name> -AccessBasedEnum $true
you can use the Get-Help CMDlet to get information on any of the DataOntap API commands.
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We have upgraded a FAS2020 and FAS2050 from 7.2.5.1 to 7.3.2GD.
Features we have are
The best benefits of this upgrade is that :
Only issue we had was that the firmware updates on the shelves took longer than they should have.
My only advice is you'll need at least 3-4% free space on each aggregate - further details can be found in the release notes