For the second time since going live with our CAMPUS Active Directory Services, the Subordinate Certificate Authority that is bound to our production domain has come very close to expiring. What gives with the default two year validity period for Microsoft CAs? Verisign’s certificates are not any less secure than ours, and they have 5+ [...]
If you have a NetApp, and you ever need a plan for migrating your iSCSI block devices from one filer head to another, here is a step by step:
Stop services on your iSCSI initiator host that may be writing to your lun to be migrated.
Refresh your target lun from source using snapmirror:snapmirror update <target>
Break your [...]
We are preparing to migrate from our FAS270c NetApp filer to a new FAS3050c. Migration/Upgrade procedure documentation is a bit sketchy on the NetApp site, so I thought I should put together my own step-by-step. Here it is, a work in progress…
Pre-migration:
Verify destination filer settings:
Quota configuration – compare /etc/quotas to current config on “files”. [...]