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Do you have cluster switches that came with the 8200?

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 12:57 PM, Chris Good<chris@g2.nu> wrote: Folks,

Currently we have a FAS2552 switchless cluster running 9.1.  We're planning an upgrade to FAS8200 and considering our migration options.  Netapp themselves aren't being terribly forthcoming on the best route to do this. 

I had hoped that upgrading from a FAS25xx would be a common thing with a reference workflow to go with it.  Maybe things are complicated somewhat because the FAS2552 runs ADP and the FAS8200 doesn't.  Has anyone been through a similar process or have any recommendations for a route to achieve this?

Thanks,

Chris
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Chris,

What is your workload on the existing cluster? You can convert the 2552 to
a switched cluster fairly easily (
https://library.netapp.com/ecm/ecm_get_file/ECMP1140536) - I'd personally
schedule an outage for this, but it is not purely necessary. Once the
systems are in the same cluster, migration of data \ SVMs \ LIFs are a
fairly easy task and non-disruptive. If you are buying all new disks, or
at least enough capacity temporarily before swinging shelves between heads,
this is likely the approach I'd use.

Depending on the workload, given that you are seemingly replacing the 2552,
you could also look to host-based tools like storage vmotion to move your
datasets. Great for VMware environments; less so for CIFS \ etc.





On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Chris Good <chris@g2.nu> wrote:

> Folks,
>
> Currently we have a FAS2552 switchless cluster running 9.1. We're
> planning an upgrade to FAS8200 and considering our migration options.
> Netapp themselves aren't being terribly forthcoming on the best route to do
> this.
>
> I had hoped that upgrading from a FAS25xx would be a common thing with a
> reference workflow to go with it. Maybe things are complicated somewhat
> because the FAS2552 runs ADP and the FAS8200 doesn't. Has anyone been
> through a similar process or have any recommendations for a route to
> achieve this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>
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We're keeping data on the current disk but clearly we have to buy new disk
for the root volumes since Netapp won't let you use ADP on the 8200.
Converting the FAS2552 to a shelf is the endgame.

Currently we don't have cluster switches but by the sounds of it that is
going to be an essential component in the migration. What the steps are
for that migration is the bit that nobody seems to be able to figure out :(

On 28 March 2017 at 18:03, Fred Grieco <fredgrieco@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Are you migrating to a system with new disk? Or are you keeping the
> current data on the current disk?
>
> Do you have cluster switches that came with the 8200?
>
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 12:57 PM, Chris Good
> <chris@g2.nu> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Currently we have a FAS2552 switchless cluster running 9.1. We're
> planning an upgrade to FAS8200 and considering our migration options.
> Netapp themselves aren't being terribly forthcoming on the best route to do
> this.
>
> I had hoped that upgrading from a FAS25xx would be a common thing with a
> reference workflow to go with it. Maybe things are complicated somewhat
> because the FAS2552 runs ADP and the FAS8200 doesn't. Has anyone been
> through a similar process or have any recommendations for a route to
> achieve this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
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You'll need at least 4 10GB switch ports - the process to convert from
switchless to switched isn't that bad:
http://www.rejected.io/2014/09/netapp-cluster-mode-converting-switchless-to-switched-cluster/

Assuming you have enough capacity on the new disk purchased with the 8200,
your best bet is to move all the volumes to new disk and then swing the
other shelves (including the converted 2552).

Disabling ADP on those disks was, IIRC, a pain when I've done it in the
past. I think I would get all the data \ other shelves to the 8200, and
then before converting the 2552 to a shelf, disable ADP and wipe disks and
remove ownership. From loader, I believe the command was: setenv
root-uses-shared-disks? false

As ADP is only supported on the on-board disk, I'm assuming that you have
one or more aggregates that can be moved.
https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMP1196986/html/GUID-85C8CF29-1FF6-4DC1-9835-EB89E7EA1BF6.html
is the procedure to swing the disk manually if you aren't logically moving
the data onto new disks.



On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 1:44 PM, Chris Good <chris@g2.nu> wrote:

> We're keeping data on the current disk but clearly we have to buy new disk
> for the root volumes since Netapp won't let you use ADP on the 8200.
> Converting the FAS2552 to a shelf is the endgame.
>
> Currently we don't have cluster switches but by the sounds of it that is
> going to be an essential component in the migration. What the steps are
> for that migration is the bit that nobody seems to be able to figure out :(
>
> On 28 March 2017 at 18:03, Fred Grieco <fredgrieco@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Are you migrating to a system with new disk? Or are you keeping the
>> current data on the current disk?
>>
>> Do you have cluster switches that came with the 8200?
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 12:57 PM, Chris Good
>> <chris@g2.nu> wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> Currently we have a FAS2552 switchless cluster running 9.1. We're
>> planning an upgrade to FAS8200 and considering our migration options.
>> Netapp themselves aren't being terribly forthcoming on the best route to do
>> this.
>>
>> I had hoped that upgrading from a FAS25xx would be a common thing with a
>> reference workflow to go with it. Maybe things are complicated somewhat
>> because the FAS2552 runs ADP and the FAS8200 doesn't. Has anyone been
>> through a similar process or have any recommendations for a route to
>> achieve this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Chris
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If not for the onboard adp,  Aggregate relocation (arl) may have been an option to swing the disks over to another system in place - - maybe.   But on this case, I think you'll need some swing disk to make this work.

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 3:09 PM, Mike Gossett<cmgossett@gmail.com> wrote: You'll need at least 4 10GB switch ports - the process to convert from switchless to switched isn't that bad: http://www.rejected.io/2014/09/netapp-cluster-mode-converting-switchless-to-switched-cluster/
Assuming you have enough capacity on the new disk purchased with the 8200, your best bet is to move all the volumes to new disk and then swing the other shelves (including the converted 2552).  
Disabling ADP on those disks was, IIRC, a pain when I've done it in the past.  I think I would get all the data \ other shelves to the 8200, and then before converting the 2552 to a shelf, disable ADP and wipe disks and remove ownership.  From loader, I believe the command was: setenv root-uses-shared-disks? false 
As ADP is only supported on the on-board disk, I'm assuming that you have one or more aggregates that can be moved.  https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMP1196986/html/GUID-85C8CF29-1FF6-4DC1-9835-EB89E7EA1BF6.html is the procedure to swing the disk manually if you aren't logically moving the data onto new disks.


On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 1:44 PM, Chris Good <chris@g2.nu> wrote:

We're keeping data on the current disk but clearly we have to buy new disk for the root volumes since Netapp won't let you use ADP on the 8200.  Converting the FAS2552 to a shelf is the endgame.

Currently we don't have cluster switches but by the sounds of it that is going to be an essential component in the migration.  What the steps are for that migration is the bit that nobody seems to be able to figure out :(

On 28 March 2017 at 18:03, Fred Grieco <fredgrieco@yahoo.com> wrote:

Are you migrating to a system with new disk?  Or are you keeping the current data on the current disk?  
Do you have cluster switches that came with the 8200?

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 12:57 PM, Chris Good<chris@g2.nu> wrote: Folks,

Currently we have a FAS2552 switchless cluster running 9.1.  We're planning an upgrade to FAS8200 and considering our migration options.  Netapp themselves aren't being terribly forthcoming on the best route to do this. 

I had hoped that upgrading from a FAS25xx would be a common thing with a reference workflow to go with it.  Maybe things are complicated somewhat because the FAS2552 runs ADP and the FAS8200 doesn't.  Has anyone been through a similar process or have any recommendations for a route to achieve this?

Thanks,

Chris
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On 28 March 2017 at 20:09, Mike Gossett <cmgossett@gmail.com> wrote:

> You'll need at least 4 10GB switch ports - the process to convert from
> switchless to switched isn't that bad: http://www.rejected.io/20
> 14/09/netapp-cluster-mode-converting-switchless-to-switched-cluster/
>

Yep, that bit looks easy enough.


> Assuming you have enough capacity on the new disk purchased with the 8200,
> your best bet is to move all the volumes to new disk and then swing the
> other shelves (including the converted 2552).
>

That might be an option. The inbuild drives on the 2552 are 4*SSD +
20*900G SAS (which house root) plus another shelf of bulk SATA storage.
With the 8200 we'll have another 24*960GB SSDs, so if we have R-D2
partitioning on there then we should squeek by with enough space on the
SSDs to migrate the volumes from the builtin drives - Yay!.

I think I would get all the data \ other shelves to the 8200, and then
> before converting the 2552 to a shelf, disable ADP and wipe disks and
> remove ownership. From loader, I believe the command was: setenv
> root-uses-shared-disks? false
>

Gotcha, so we wipe the builtin disks, add them back to the 8200, then we
can migrate the volumes back off the SSDs and onto the SAS drives.
Migrating the bulk storage shelf and SVMs should be trivial

Thanks for that rundown, seems to make sense to me.

Out of interest would this be significantly simpler if rather than using
SSDs and R-D2 we had another shelf of SAS drives for dedicated root drives?

Chris

I don't know if it really makes it any more or less simple. If you are
going to end up with a long term SAS disk footprint, then if it were me,
i'd rather be using those SAS disks for my root than SSDs. Sounds like
you're going to have at least 20x900G SAS disks in your end-state
configuration, so you might want to evaluate buying another some more SAS
disk to hold that.

I haven't looked at the latest changes, but historically you had the choice
of AFF or flash-pool \ hybrid aggregates. Are you sure that you are going
to be able to have an all-flash shelf on the same system as hybrid \
spinning-disk shelves? As of 6 months ago, this didn't fly.

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 4:03 PM, Chris Good <chris@g2.nu> wrote:

> On 28 March 2017 at 20:09, Mike Gossett <cmgossett@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> You'll need at least 4 10GB switch ports - the process to convert from
>> switchless to switched isn't that bad: http://www.rejected.io/20
>> 14/09/netapp-cluster-mode-converting-switchless-to-switched-cluster/
>>
>
> Yep, that bit looks easy enough.
>
>
>> Assuming you have enough capacity on the new disk purchased with the
>> 8200, your best bet is to move all the volumes to new disk and then swing
>> the other shelves (including the converted 2552).
>>
>
> That might be an option. The inbuild drives on the 2552 are 4*SSD +
> 20*900G SAS (which house root) plus another shelf of bulk SATA storage.
> With the 8200 we'll have another 24*960GB SSDs, so if we have R-D2
> partitioning on there then we should squeek by with enough space on the
> SSDs to migrate the volumes from the builtin drives - Yay!.
>
> I think I would get all the data \ other shelves to the 8200, and then
>> before converting the 2552 to a shelf, disable ADP and wipe disks and
>> remove ownership. From loader, I believe the command was: setenv
>> root-uses-shared-disks? false
>>
>
> Gotcha, so we wipe the builtin disks, add them back to the 8200, then we
> can migrate the volumes back off the SSDs and onto the SAS drives.
> Migrating the bulk storage shelf and SVMs should be trivial
>
> Thanks for that rundown, seems to make sense to me.
>
> Out of interest would this be significantly simpler if rather than using
> SSDs and R-D2 we had another shelf of SAS drives for dedicated root drives?
>
> Chris
>

>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Gossett <cmgossett@gmail.com> writes:

Mike> I don't know if it really makes it any more or less simple.? If
Mike> you are going to end up with a long term SAS disk footprint,
Mike> then if it were me, i'd rather be using those SAS disks for my
Mike> root than SSDs. ? Sounds like you're going to have at least
Mike> 20x900G SAS disks in your end-state configuration, so you might
Mike> want to evaluate buying another some more SAS disk to hold
Mike> that. ?

Mike> I haven't looked at the latest changes, but historically you had
Mike> the choice of AFF or flash-pool \ hybrid aggregates.? Are you
Mike> sure that you are going to be able to have an all-flash shelf on
Mike> the same system as hybrid \ spinning-disk shelves?? As of 6
Mike> months ago, this didn't fly. ? *

I don't know why you think so. I've been running an 8060 four node
cluster with a shelf of SSDs with most of them in an aggregate, along
with a couple or three disks (I forget) were setup in a FlashPool.
But since we also had FlashCache, it was explained to us that they
didn't really work like we thought/wanted, so we just nuked the
FlashPools and added the disks back into the SSD aggregate.

John

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Root-data-(data) partitions are supported only on all-SSD systems; as you have SAS/SATA disks you cannot use them – at least in supported way. Also cluster switches must be supported by NetApp and run validated configuration and be dedicated switches – which means you cannot just use arbitrary 4 10G ports on your existing switches (again, it will technically work, just if you hit a problem you will have hard time to get it through support).

What you can do in – as far as I can tell – supported way is to use ARL to replace controllers. High level steps are


1. Connect new shelf to 2552, move data from internal disks to new shelf. Make sure to leave 4 disks for two root aggregates

2. Move root aggregates to new shelf: https://kb.netapp.com/support/s/article/ka31A00000013ok/How-to-non-disruptively-create-a-new-root-aggregate-and-have-it-host-the-root-volume-in-clustered-Data-ONTAP-8-2-and-8-3-ONTAP-9-0

3. Replace controllers: https://library.netapp.com/ecm/ecm_download_file/ECMP1995386

4. Repurpose 2552 as shelf and redistribute volumes as you see fit

All of this can be done without cluster outage.

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From: toasters-bounces@teaparty.net [mailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net] On Behalf Of Chris Good
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 12:04 AM
To: Mike Gossett
Cc: toasters@teaparty.net
Subject: Re: FAS2552 -> FAS8200 migration

On 28 March 2017 at 20:09, Mike Gossett <cmgossett@gmail.com<mailto:cmgossett@gmail.com>> wrote:
You'll need at least 4 10GB switch ports - the process to convert from switchless to switched isn't that bad: http://www.rejected.io/2014/09/netapp-cluster-mode-converting-switchless-to-switched-cluster/

Yep, that bit looks easy enough.

Assuming you have enough capacity on the new disk purchased with the 8200, your best bet is to move all the volumes to new disk and then swing the other shelves (including the converted 2552).

That might be an option. The inbuild drives on the 2552 are 4*SSD + 20*900G SAS (which house root) plus another shelf of bulk SATA storage. With the 8200 we'll have another 24*960GB SSDs, so if we have R-D2 partitioning on there then we should squeek by with enough space on the SSDs to migrate the volumes from the builtin drives - Yay!.
I think I would get all the data \ other shelves to the 8200, and then before converting the 2552 to a shelf, disable ADP and wipe disks and remove ownership. From loader, I believe the command was: setenv root-uses-shared-disks? false

Gotcha, so we wipe the builtin disks, add them back to the 8200, then we can migrate the volumes back off the SSDs and onto the SAS drives. Migrating the bulk storage shelf and SVMs should be trivial
Thanks for that rundown, seems to make sense to me.

Out of interest would this be significantly simpler if rather than using SSDs and R-D2 we had another shelf of SAS drives for dedicated root drives?
Chris

On 29 March 2017 at 08:07, andrei.borzenkov@ts.fujitsu.com <
andrei.borzenkov@ts.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> Root-data-(data) partitions are supported only on all-SSD systems; as you
> have SAS/SATA disks you cannot use them – at least in supported way.
>

Thanks for that insight, I really appreciate it. Feeling really let down
by Netapp now for them to propose a solution that is unsupported! I will
have words :(

Hi Chris

I suggest you work with your Netapp Partner to arrange for some swing gear
if possible. A DS2246 shelf or two will allow you to unpick the ADP and
setup dedicated root aggregates for the FAS2552 controllers. From there a
head swap should hopefully be straight forward.

We're in the initial phases of planning a controller upgrade for our
FAS2552 clusters (also upgrading to FAS8200). We were fortunate that we
had enough disks at the start to remove ADP. At the time it was very new
and we were aware of the problems it would pose for a controller upgrade.
I know that's not very helpful but if there's anything we learn in the
process that might help you I'll pass it on.

It would also be great if someone from Netapp could chime in and clarify
how customers are supposed to upgrade entry level SAS/hybrid systems with
ADP, particularly switch-less clusters. I hope that Netapp will support
FAS8200s running with R-D ADP setups that are upgrades from entry systems.

Good luck and please let us know if you learn anything from Netapp that
could help others.

Steve


On 29 March 2017 at 09:49, Chris Good <chris@g2.nu> wrote:

> On 29 March 2017 at 08:07, andrei.borzenkov@ts.fujitsu.com <
> andrei.borzenkov@ts.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
>> Root-data-(data) partitions are supported only on all-SSD systems; as you
>> have SAS/SATA disks you cannot use them – at least in supported way.
>>
>
> Thanks for that insight, I really appreciate it. Feeling really let down
> by Netapp now for them to propose a solution that is unsupported! I will
> have words :(
>
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Just based on what I was told by a NetApp sales rep. Very glad to hear
that this is a supported configuration. It had been explained to me ~6-8
months ago that all-ssd aggregates were only supported by AFF systems,
which would not support hybrid or spinning disk shelves, and that if one
needed an all-ssd aggregate (flash-cache\pool not sufficient) , adding an
AFF HA pair to a cluster was the only way to go

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 6:37 PM, John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org> wrote:

> >>>>> "Mike" == Mike Gossett <cmgossett@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Mike> I don't know if it really makes it any more or less simple. If
> Mike> you are going to end up with a long term SAS disk footprint,
> Mike> then if it were me, i'd rather be using those SAS disks for my
> Mike> root than SSDs. Sounds like you're going to have at least
> Mike> 20x900G SAS disks in your end-state configuration, so you might
> Mike> want to evaluate buying another some more SAS disk to hold
> Mike> that.
>
> Mike> I haven't looked at the latest changes, but historically you had
> Mike> the choice of AFF or flash-pool \ hybrid aggregates. Are you
> Mike> sure that you are going to be able to have an all-flash shelf on
> Mike> the same system as hybrid \ spinning-disk shelves? As of 6
> Mike> months ago, this didn't fly. *
>
> I don't know why you think so. I've been running an 8060 four node
> cluster with a shelf of SSDs with most of them in an aggregate, along
> with a couple or three disks (I forget) were setup in a FlashPool.
> But since we also had FlashCache, it was explained to us that they
> didn't really work like we thought/wanted, so we just nuked the
> FlashPools and added the disks back into the SSD aggregate.
>
> John
>

I think this is still true; I don’t have the exact details, but you can, of course, add an SSD only aggregate to an existing filer, but you should always try to keep different storage tiers on separate controllers.
F.ex. if you want to run SAS, SATA and SSD aggregates, you should have a 4-node cluster with an AFF HA pair, and one pair where one of the controllers is serving SAS primarily and the other is serving SATA.

There are multiple reasons (so I’ve been told) for doing that, one of the most important being that especially on AFF systems, a lot of internal configuration values and timeout settings have been removed which were designed for disk-based systems, because they simply do not apply for all-flash systems.
When you mix SAS and SATA aggregates on the same controller, please keep in mind that both are running off the same consistency point, so slow SATA writes will automatically also slow down your SAS write throughput – and that will even be worse when you mix up SATA and SSD aggregates on the same controller.

Personally, I try to avoid mixing storage tiers on one controller because what has been told to me by some of the NetApp Techs on several occasions and what I’ve read about mixing workloads and disk types etc. sounds reasonable enough to just not do it if not absolutely necessary.

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Von: toasters-bounces@teaparty.net [mailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net] Im Auftrag von Mike Gossett
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. März 2017 16:16
An: John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>
Cc: toasters@teaparty.net
Betreff: Re: FAS2552 -> FAS8200 migration

Just based on what I was told by a NetApp sales rep. Very glad to hear that this is a supported configuration. It had been explained to me ~6-8 months ago that all-ssd aggregates were only supported by AFF systems, which would not support hybrid or spinning disk shelves, and that if one needed an all-ssd aggregate (flash-cache\pool not sufficient) , adding an AFF HA pair to a cluster was the only way to go

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 6:37 PM, John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org<mailto:john@stoffel.org>> wrote:
>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Gossett <cmgossett@gmail.com<mailto:cmgossett@gmail.com>> writes:

Mike> I don't know if it really makes it any more or less simple. If
Mike> you are going to end up with a long term SAS disk footprint,
Mike> then if it were me, i'd rather be using those SAS disks for my
Mike> root than SSDs. Sounds like you're going to have at least
Mike> 20x900G SAS disks in your end-state configuration, so you might
Mike> want to evaluate buying another some more SAS disk to hold
Mike> that.

Mike> I haven't looked at the latest changes, but historically you had
Mike> the choice of AFF or flash-pool \ hybrid aggregates. Are you
Mike> sure that you are going to be able to have an all-flash shelf on
Mike> the same system as hybrid \ spinning-disk shelves? As of 6
Mike> months ago, this didn't fly. *

I don't know why you think so. I've been running an 8060 four node
cluster with a shelf of SSDs with most of them in an aggregate, along
with a couple or three disks (I forget) were setup in a FlashPool.
But since we also had FlashCache, it was explained to us that they
didn't really work like we thought/wanted, so we just nuked the
FlashPools and added the disks back into the SSD aggregate.

John

Just to complete the loop I've just had confirmation direct from Netapp
that R-D2 is supported on mixed storage system. The "all-flash"
requirement _only_ refers to the initial shelf/root volume. As long as
that requirement is satisfied you can add whatever type of shelves you
like. So FAS with a shelf of R-D2 SSDs can totally have SAS or SATA
shelves added to it later. Now why they can't spell this out in a TR or
communicate in a way that doesn't feel like pulling teeth is a mystery to
me...

On 29 March 2017 at 09:49, Chris Good <chris@g2.nu> wrote:

> On 29 March 2017 at 08:07, andrei.borzenkov@ts.fujitsu.com <
> andrei.borzenkov@ts.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
>> Root-data-(data) partitions are supported only on all-SSD systems; as you
>> have SAS/SATA disks you cannot use them – at least in supported way.
>>
>
> Thanks for that insight, I really appreciate it. Feeling really let down
> by Netapp now for them to propose a solution that is unsupported! I will
> have words :(
>