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NetApp: Identify Snapshots Not Managed by Policy
The function below can be used to identify snapshots on a NetApp Cluster Mode system that do not have a corresponding snapshot schedule applied to the volume in question. It can be used to find odd snapshots that have been taken ad-hoc, and also to find snapshots that are left orphaned by changing the snapshot
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Assigning permissions to a volume through the NetApp PowerShell Toolkit
As part of my work to automate as much as I can, both to reduce time and increase consistency, I was looking for a way to assign permissions to a newly created volume which was providing a CIFS share through our NetApp FAS unit. Normally I would use the Get/Set-Acl cmdlets that are provided through
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PowerShell: Move SnapMirror Destinations to a New Aggregate (7-Mode)
We got some new disk shelves in to replace some old ones on our NetApp filer. The old disks had a lot of SnapMirror destination volumes.All these needed migrating to the new disks. Initially we were planning on creating a new set of SnapMirrors from the source volumes to the destinations, and once these were
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Renaming NetApp SnapMirror Destinations
We have a collection of NetApp devices hosting a large number of volumes, and utilise SnapMirrors extensively for backup and DR, as well as moving information between departments As the storage has grown, and different people have added new volumes, new SnapMirrors have been created, with a wide variety of naming formats to match the
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