Recently I had an Oracle database server used by some developers that was running out of space on its data volume mounted at /u02. The volume was a simple MBR volume (think fdisk), so it couldn’t be non-destructively extended without using a third-party utility like gparted. That would have been fine, but rather than …

If you’re familiar with networking you know that when a device is directly connected to two separate IP networks, traffic destined for one of those networks should egress on the interface that is directly connected to that network. For example, if your storage appliance is directly connected to the 172.16.1.0/24 …

If you have two Netapp filers and want to use Snapmirror to replicate volumes or qtrees between the two, but want to force the replication traffic to traverse a specific network, there is a quick and easy way to do it. You’ll need a few things to get started: – SSH access to both filers – Network configuration on and …