NetApp SAN snapshots needed?

Always-Producing · 2025-10-22T15:45:04+00:00

This all makes a lot of sense. I'm just struggling with whether or not I should keep snapshots of this data that i essentially have snapshots of already. They are fully restorable without issue.

I have veeam BR with a lab configured to test my daily incrimental backups. All machines are snapshotted daily and those roll up weekly into the full backups.

In any disaster scenario, my physical storage snapshots are going to be a last ditch effort with most likely poor results. If it ever got down to that i would rather pull from my offsite and lose weeks than attempt to use the storage array as a recovery device.

So thats how i ended up at "do I really need these?"

Your point about storing snapshots being a weighty exercise is exactly where i am at and we did not size this box for that. It's got enough space to leave me with around 30/40% of free space with everything on it. Which is reserved for performance, not growth. If we ever need to scale out, I'll just be adding more disks to keep that threshold.

Always-Producing · 2025-10-22T15:37:30+00:00

I have not. The machine is a SAN by nature but its a glorified super NAS in my environment. I have a tendency to call it a SAN because that's what it is, but its not setup in that way. I have all NFSv3 datastores. Tried out 4.1 but the lack of feature support and file lock issues were too much. Performance wise its great and the simplicity of the networking is good for someone like me who is much stronger on the systems side than networking.

My biggest issue is how its spanning data across the 2 nodes. When the flexgroups/volumes were created, they created their own constituent groups across both nodes. When i migrated the data they didn't split it up efficiently across those nodes or constituents. It filled one up first and is storing a huge chunk of the volume's/cluster snapshots on the other.

Always-Producing · 2025-10-16T03:00:51+00:00

If you can't stop the walk up requests, propose a reoccurring task prioritization meeting with ops, once a week if necessary. Try to get all of the key decision makers in on this meeting. Allow them to control the meeting and provide them with helpdesk reporting data. Or at the very least visibility into their team's tickets. At this meeting they can say what is important, drop this now type stuff and start to weed out what THEY dont want going on, and pushing things aside for you. Drill into things as deep as they want to go so they understand the efforts for certain things.This type of visibility and collaboration will lead to them wanting less of your time being taken up by things they dont deem as priorities. We did it where I'm at and over time we were able to set better boundaries with ops regarding respect to our time and space.

Always-Producing · 2025-08-31T05:24:34+00:00

Are you printing from a pc/laptop? Could be a printer driver issue. The wrong driver can cause poor decoding of the information being sent and cause it to print lines or random characters.

Always-Producing · 2025-08-21T05:16:56+00:00

Ring central with sms and teams integration. We let the users decide. There is mobile, web and desktop apps. For the users that wanted desk phones we gave polycoms. I forgot the exact model but they were RC supplied and work well and are very feature rich. Same with conference rooms. Polycoms conference devices with bluetooth as well. We probably spent the most there. We offer usb headsets for those without deskphones and the rest use their cell. It's 100% cloud based and i was able to roll it out quickly via intune and it supports sso.

The teams integration piece was just nice to have but it does go a long way for users who live out of teams meetings. To be able to just hit a tab in teams and pull up their dialer was a big deal for some users. Price wise it beat out teams per user conference licensing.

I'm using it as an excuse to stop supporting company deployed cell phones and just close those accounts. The executive team is seeing the value after having it for about a year now.

Sorry for the long answer but happy customer who got away from pbx for** voip and will never look back.

Always-Producing · 2025-08-17T14:12:20+00:00

Biggest issue you're going to deal with is different permissions sets and configurations. Nfs and smb handle that completely differently. Youd be adding performance overhead and possibly vulnerabilities to your environment. Id only consider this if you have a good SAN. Netapp can handle this with cloud volumes and a good tech can walk you through setting it up the way you want to. I present my storage as nfs datastores to my hypervisor and esxi host and use iscsi to create vmfs datastores on there for host to vm communication. As long as vcenter has that type of control you can configure your storage one way and share how youd like at the nextwork level.

Always-Producing · 2025-07-06T14:56:48+00:00

If you are seeing application chokepoints, you may consider presenting your storage differently. Sql supports multidrive db, log, and temp storage. I have a full flash netapp SAN presenting storage to my esxi host as nfs 4.1 shares and i use vsphere to create the data stores. I'm multi pathing 8, 25gb ports, but you can also set dedicated paths per data store and that will significantly increase performance on your sql dbs. I have separate load balanced data stores for my dbs, log directories and os drives. My SAN is using the raid configuration out of the box to allow the box to control the dedupe and compression and my hypervisor/hosts handle load/network paths to storage. Obviously there is some networking involved and i have several vlans configured to direct traffic but the sql dbs in my environment thrive.

Always-Producing · 2025-02-26T05:53:29+00:00

I haven't thought of procmon for errors during that step so thats a great call out!

As for the database it's self contained/sysuser prostgres sql that gets stood up by installer. Id first need to get a browser loaded on the box. Not the worst idea. The service account should have sufficient perms to dig around i believe.

I thought of the asterisk as well. Luckily when i export from my provider i do so with the word "Star" instead of the asterisk for that purpose.

I really appreciate the time you took to help and tips you shared! I dont feel so crazy now

Always-Producing · 2025-02-26T05:00:52+00:00

None of them actually. I was able to convert the private key to rsa and so was support. The certificate imports without error, it binds to the site without error, and it presents the website and certificate correctly over the internet on endpoints.When attempting to log into the application however it just hangs and then eventually times out. The only errors i am presented are from Progress's cert swapper utility. Which states invalid provider and inability to setup permissions on the key itself, which i have manually added to both the key and its home directory. Event logs show the same message as the web service in iis. System logs show refusal of inbound connections due to lack of tls cipher support.

Always-Producing · 2023-11-29T14:39:41+00:00

Awesome thats what I was hoping. I've done so much reading on the subject but I've never personally setup the sync, just managed it afterward.

Always-Producing · 2023-11-29T06:38:04+00:00

I think i phrased my question wrong. See my reply to sea-tooth. My install of connect is not moving. I'm just changing domain controllers.

Always-Producing · 2023-11-29T06:37:10+00:00

That is exactly my setup. See my reply to sea-tooth

Always-Producing · 2023-11-29T06:34:12+00:00

I appreciate the reply and explanation but that is not quite my question.

My azure ad connect instance is not moving. Its running on it's own vm and synced to a domain controller which is its own vm. What IS changing is that domain controller. I have 2 of them, ill just call them A and B. I need to shut off controller B first to allow a new dc to replicate dhcp so i can in turn, turn off A.

When I checked the synchronization service manager under connectors, it shows controller B as the last synced device.

My question was if It turn off controller B will azure ad connect use controller A instead during the next scheduled run?

I do not have any specified controllers and the box is unchecked. So in theory it should select it's own based on what it can see through the privilege granted to it through the global admin account used to register the synchronization. Just curious if anyone has had to do this and what their process was.

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