How to add the spare disk on netapp filer

Here is the steps to add the disk as spare disk on netapp

1. SSH into the controller
2. turn off the auto assign option by running the command options disk.auto_assign off
3. Put the new hard drive on one of the empty slots on disk shelf
4. run the command disk show -n  , this will show the newly added disk as not owned by any controller
5. run this command disk assign oa.00.8  to assign the controller where 0a is the controller identification ,00 is the disk shelf number and 8 is the disk number
6. Turn on the auto assign option by running the command options disk.auto_assign on
7. run disk show , you will be seeing the new disk as spare
8. for some reason you want to remove that hard drive you can unassign the disk by running the command disk assign 0a.00.8 -s unowned -f


 

windows File server move using robocopy

Often I used to get request to move the file share server to a different server , There are several option available to finish this job, the easiest one would be the robocopy one.

Robocopy will take care of ntfs permission on the folder but will not copy the share permission. If robocopy is used for the file share move then we need to export the share permission from exisitng windows server then import that to the new fileshare server.

Here is the high level steps

1. copy the below command in a text file and save it as filename.bat

@ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL

SET _source=D:\
SET _dest=E:\
SET _what=/COPYALL /SEC /MIR /Z
 :: /COPYALL :: COPY ALL file info
 :: /B :: copy files in Backup mode.
 :: /SEC :: copy files with SECurity
 :: /MIR :: MIRror a directory tree
SET _options=/R:0 /W:0 /LOG:Logfile.txt /NFL /NDL
 :: /R:n :: number of Retries
 :: /W:n :: Wait time between retries
 :: /LOG :: Output log file
 :: /NFL :: No file logging
 :: /NDL :: No dir logging

ROBOCOPY %_source% %_dest% %_what% %_options%

Note : please replace d:\ with the source path and also I:\ with the destination path. Also keep in mind that this will excatly mirror the source to destination , if destination has any extra files or folders that will be deleted.

2.download robocopy and save that exe and filename.bat on same location

3. run the filename.bat on a administrative command prompt.

4. The log file will be generated on the same location which includes start time ,end time , how much size is copied or ignored or failed . If any files copy is failed it will be reported on the log file

5.From the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINES\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Shares

6. export the above key from source server and import on the destination server

Note: this will work if you are moving entire file share server .if you are moving only portion of file share server then after import delete the unwanted share key.