When there is a power failure or power maintenance, you are requirer to Power down NetApp cluster. To do that, you need to use serial console to physical login to all the node and run following command on each node
halt -node node_name -inhibit-takeover true -skip-lif-migration-before-shutdown true
Example Controller 1
Example Controller 2
If you work on an environment without internet, only way to install software is using RPM package which you can download from a pc with internet and transfer the rpm file via usb pendrive to the server without internet.
To install RPM package, there are 2 way to do it.
First method – install the RPM Package via yum command
syntax
yum localinstall packagename.rpm
I having an issue when i move the VM from ESXi 6.0 back to ESXi 5.5. The VM show invalid. As per checking, i notice that the VM is running on hardware version 11 which is non supported at ESXi 5.5.
To fix this issue, i have to downgrade the VM Hardware version.
The are 2 option to downgrade the VM Hardware version.
First option is to convert the VM with VMware vCenter Conveter to downgrade the VM’s hardware version.
Second option is make a modification to the VM’s VMX file.
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