I had the opportunity to work a little bit with the new Nvidia SN2100 that NetApp have certified for Metrocluster use as an alternative to the Cisco and Broadcom switches. The SN2100 comes with Cumulus linux installed and configuring them is more like a normal linux machine than a switch OS like the NXOS so … Read More
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SSL Certificates and NetApp ActiveIQ Unified Manager
I am not sure when it happened but at some point, Chrome stopped me from just ignoring that some of my SSL certificates was insecure. It would no longer allow me to “continue anyway”. I could just switch to Firefox or change the security settings in chrome. The correct solution is to create a signed … Read More
Appling new RFC fails after NX-OS update
I was doing an ONTAP upgrade of a 4-node MetroCluster IP. I was upgrading from 9.7 to 9.10, and the Cisco backend switches was running 7.x with RFC 1.4, so they needed to be upgraded to 9.3(9) with RFC 1.6 and it was when applying the RFC 1.6 that I ran into an issue. The … Read More
SSL Certificates and NetApp ONTAP System Manager
I have been wanting to work more with certificates for some time and finally had both the time and a proper excuse to do just that. In this regard certificates are SSL certificates, and I will look at how to use them with NetApp ONTAP. They are used for SSL signing of https traffic. I will … Read More
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