Setting up a NetApp as a simple FC LUN carver

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Published on 2013-05-22T14:47:05Z Indexed on 2013/06/29 4:22 UTC
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For a particular application, I want to configure a NetApp filer (7-mode) to be as close as possible to an old-fashioned storage subsystem without snapshots or fancy features.

vol create vol_ESX -s volume aggr1 1500M
vol options vol_ESX nosnap on
vol options vol_ESX nosnapdir on
vol options vol_ESX fractional_reserve 0
snap sched vol_ESX 0 0 0
snap reserve vol_ESX 0

# Ensure no snapshots exist on vol_ESX
snap list vol_ESX 

# Create a LUN or multiple LUNs that take up the entire volume
lun create -s 1565523968 -t vmware /vol/vol_ESX/lun0
lun map /vol/vol_ESX/lun0 challenger

Is this safe? Is this the Best Way of doing what I'm trying to accomplish? Is there anything else I should set?

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