Some Basic Netapp Tips 1

Here are some tips that I share with clients. They are not rules of thumb, simply ways of doing things. For most of my clients I share a VM Tips file, which I update constantly and a storage tips file, in this case Netapp.

After creating volumes log into the filer and turn on volume autosize with the trigger set to volume

After creating volumes log into the filer and set the snap autodelete to on

Set the snapreserve % to 0 when creating volumes that will house LUNs. Just create the volume big enough to handle a LUN plus the snaps manually.

Make sure that when you grow a volume that you login to the filer and reconfigure volume autosize. This can be done by typing vol autosize reset; followed by vol autosize on

Always set the default security to restricted for iSCSI and add initiators as needed

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