OneFS Vs Data OnTap

So Guys, all you guys know them, Netapp and EMC both of them are giant in the storage industry. Now EMC release its new OS name OneFS a One File system according to them this OS make them the only best in the industry of storage but once again there is one more sophisticated, user friendly and decent OS named Ontapp lies under the tree of NetApp. I have read both of them just get the main difference between them i.e. Architecture vise, volume vise and performance vise. The Main similarity between Ontap and OneFs is both of them can support tens of petabyte without any problem and hinderence in their performance.

How to Configure and Access CIFS Server on NETAPP Filler

NetApp Support File and Block at the same time dislike EMC which depends upon the hardware and have to buy block and file separately or you can go for unified in EMC Storage. well in this writeup I am going to share Cifs setup configuration via CLI. you will be required to have a user which have administrative access in you Active Directory, Active directory's primary and secondary Ip addresses and Time Server Ip Addresses for Time Sync. and yeah you must have CIFS license, NetApps allow you to create CIFS and share them once the CIFS license is purchased. Nothing is free, except maybe samba :D

How To Update NetApp Filler DOT Version from 8.0 to 8.1

Storage upgrade is always a big and tricky task for storage engineers. So in this writeup I am going to share the procedure to succesfull upgrade of DOT version from 8.0 to 8.1 and I believe this procedure will help you to upgrade any DOT version of Any netapp storage product for fas32xx and fas62xx.In my scenario the storage is fas6240 and has been provisioned to other unix based servers. you can follow the same step if you going to upgrade your brand new storage you will be needed below mention softwares: