NFS Questions


mounting an AS/400 shared folder to linux
I am trying to find how to mount an i-series shared folder to my linux machine. I would ideally like to be able to use the cpy command on the i-series to copy files directly to the linux shared folder (it is currently shared on a windows machine). I have a program which selects the [...]

Answer Question   |  August 28, 2012  9:45 PM
Connectivity, iSeries, Linux, NFS
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25 pts.

iSeries NFS: Change from UDP to TCP
We are running on V5R4 and attempting to mount (via NFS) an external file system (Data Domain 530) onto the iSeries. Even though on the surface it appears that the mount was successful; you cannot execute any type of read or write operation to the mount. After running a communications trace, it was determined that [...]

Answer Question   |  March 19, 2012  10:14 PM
iseries v5r4, NFS, TCP, UDP
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15 pts.

Mount windows NFS filesystem on ubuntu & ubuntu filesystem on windows
I want to mount windows nfs filesystem on ubuntu and ubuntu filesystem on windows

Answer Question   |  January 19, 2011  4:27 PM
File System, File systems, NFS, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Servers, Windows Operating System
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5 pts.

NFS version 4 changing export properties
Hi, can someone describe which will be the impact when i will change the NFS Export Properties to NFSv4 (see Advanced – NFS version supported for connections) and what about the security options? Should i unexport the folder before making the change? NFSv4 will impact the user’s access to shared item? Thanks for your Help.

Answer Question   |  January 10, 2011  9:30 PM
NFS, NFS Storage, NFSv4, OS/400
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250 pts.

NFS mount as persistent or as a service?
I’m running Windows Server 2008 R2, 64bit. We have a couple NFS shares on our NetApp SAN that we need to mount from this server as letter drives. I have installed “Service for NFS” and I have successfully mounted the NFS shares using both “mount” and “net use”, but I have a couple questions: 1. [...]

Answer Question   |  December 15, 2009  5:37 PM
NetApp, NFS, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2
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16,755 pts.

Can’t copy from NFS share to NFS share
Looking for help with a an NFS issue I have two shares one with zfs filesystem the other with a UFS filesystem shared via NFS. I use the shares as home directories for my users The ZFS has the following in dfstab running on solaris 10 share -F nfs -o anon=0,log /mypool/home The UFS has [...]

Answer Question   |  October 8, 2009  7:42 PM
NFS, Solaris 10
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30 pts.

Looking for multi-vendor Storage Virtualization
Need a “simple concept” to do the SAN Interconnect based Storage virtualization on multi vendor basis / heterogeneous SAN sub system based. And how much this will be helpful on ROI? -Guru

Answer Question   |  February 9, 2009  9:47 AM
Network storage, NFS, SAN, Shared Network Storage, Storage ROI, Storage virtualization, Virtualization ROI/TCO
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95 pts.

Throughput calculator for all the SAN subsystem?
I was searching for a long time for a simple tool which can tell us the controller throughput of any SAN environment. Its necessary for every Storage engineer to have this utility to cross verify the subsystem we buy. Ofcourse the vendor will have the tool or LAB benchmark for the same. But those will [...]

Answer Question   |  August 20, 2009  9:43 AM
Bandwidth, Fibre channel, Network storage, NFS, SAN, SAN throughput, SAN throughput sizing, Shared Network Storage, Storage Area Network, Throughput
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95 pts.

How do I setup a storage with multiple geographical location Sync?
Iam planning to setup a storage which needs to be located in 5 geographical locations. The data which i write on the first location should get sysnc with rest 4 locations in no time. I dont want to invest more in procure higher bandwidth solutions. Is there any other way to sync the data by [...]

Answer Question   |  February 5, 2009  3:36 PM
FTP, LUN, Network storage, NFS, Shared Network Storage
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95 pts.

mooving SUN NFS v3 to EMC Celera NFS v3
We are actualy in a big migration project. and we want to migrate are multiple single file systems to a EMC Celera NAS. Are problèmes is that we use ACL on are SUN FS. and when we copy the file using Rsynck (i’m a SAN architect I don’t know a clue of unix systems and [...]

Answer Question   |  August 20, 2009  4:00 PM
ACL, Celera, EMC Celera NAS, EMC Celera NFS v3, NAS, NFS, SUN NFS v3
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700 pts.

Performane issues on my Subversion (SVN) server on NFS (NetApp)
I have some performane issues on my Subversion (SVN) server on NFS, before we migrate our data to NFS (NetApp storage) it is in a local hard drive of the server and the check-out is fast, compare to NFS the time it took is double. Does any body here have some best practices on Subversion [...]

Answer Question   |  February 9, 2009  1:34 AM
FSFS, NetApp, NFS, Revision Control Systems, Subversion
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5 pts.

Half duplex vs full duplex
Recently the application running on one of our clusters had problems when some of the servers had problems accessing the NFS storage. The analysis showed there to be a mismatch between the QFE interfaces and the network protocol. The QFEs were operating at half duplex while the network was expecting full. The cluster servers had [...]

Answer Question   |  July 21, 2009  6:11 PM
Full Duplex, Half Duplex, Network Interface Cards, NFS, NFS Storage, RAID
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5 pts.

Combining HSM and Backups
Were looking at replacing our tape backup system, and at the same time were thinking our expending our storage by getting a HSM solution. What we are not sure of is whether these two issue should be combined. My original vision was that a good tape based HSM system (Tivoli,…) and a tape robot would [...]

Answer Question   |  November 24, 2008  1:00 PM
Apple, Apple Xserve, Backup, Backup software, Hierarchical Storage Management, HSM, MAID, Massive Array of Idle Disks, NFS, Tape Backups, Tivoli Storage Manager, Xserve
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5 pts.

Mac, Linux, Windows, Storage
What or how is the best way to present a single pool of storage to Mac clients using AFP, Windows using SMB/CIFS, and Linux/Unix using NFS? The ideal solution would be users to access all of their data whether they bounced from a Mac to a Linux workstation and then to a Windows system. Basically [...]

Answer Question   |  August 30, 2008  7:20 PM
AFP, CIFS, Linux, Mac, NAS, NFS, SAN, SMB, Storage management, Unix, Windows
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5 pts.

NAS or SAN?
We have a need to run numerous virtual servers from a NAS/SAN. The questions is, which should we choose? THe product we support (Citrix XenServer) supports either for backend virtual system storage and can run VM’s from either. Currently, our needs are small. We have about 10 virtual servers that we want to migrate to [...]

Answer Question   |  July 24, 2008  6:44 PM
DR, HBA, iSCSI, NAS, NFS, RAID 5, SAN, Virtual Machines, Xen
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20 pts.

NFS, Thin-provisioning, VMWARE
Hello, Currently running VI3.5 and Virtual Center attached to a NAS via NFS and iSCSI. How do I create a VM from a template and utilize the default thin provisioning that NFS has. Example: When I create a windows 2003 VM with 10G C drive over an NFS datastore from scratch, thin provisioning is enabled [...]

Answer Question   |  February 20, 2008  8:16 PM
NFS, Thin provisioning, VMware
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5 pts.

diff for nfsv3 and nfsv4 ?
what is the difference between nfsv3 and nfsv4 ?

Answer Question   |  November 10, 2010  5:55 PM
NFS
0 pts.

Routing Between Subnets and between networks
1.I have two separe networks 192.168.0.0 and 192.168.1.0 ,they r physicall connected. What should i configure and where to configure so that host of each network can connect to other host in other network. 2.I have two separe Subnets(after subnetting a class B network),they r physicall connected. What should i configure and where to configure [...]

Answer Question   |  January 10, 2007  4:12 AM
3Com, Active Directory, Availability, Bandwidth, Benchmarking, Bind, Cabling, Cisco, DHCP, DNS, Ethernet, Fault isolation, FDDI, Frame Relay, General Directories, H.323, Hardware, Hewlett-Packard, Hubs, IPv4, IPv6, LDAP, Lotus Domino, Lucent, Microsoft Windows, MPLS, NetBIOS, Network applications management, Network management software, Network monitoring, Network protocols, Network testing, Networking, Networking services, NFS, Nortel, Performance management, Ping, Protocol analysis, Remote management, Routers, SIP, Switches, TCP, WINS
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0 pts.

Network Connection Freezes
For some reason, at random, among 20 PCs on my network, in the morning or during the day, the network connection stops responding for both intranet and internet communications. The only solution thus far is to remove the NIC from the Device Manager, reboot the PC, and let Windows XP Pro find the network card [...]

Answer Question   |  September 1, 2010  11:31 AM
3Com, Access, Access control, Active Directory, Application security, Availability, Avaya, backdoors, Bandwidth, Bind, Biometrics, Browsers, Cabling, Cisco, Compliance, configuration, CRM, Current threats, Database, DataCenter, Dell, Desktops, DHCP, Digital certificates, Disaster Recovery, DNS, Encryption, Enterasys, Ethernet, Exchange, FDDI, filtering, Firewalls, Forensics, Foundry, Frame Relay, General Directories, H.323, Hacking, Hardware, Hewlett-Packard, Hubs, human factors, Identity & Access Management, Incident response, Instant Messaging, Interoperability, Intrusion management, IPv4, IPv6, Juniper Networks, LDAP, Lotus Domino, Lucent, Management, Microprocessors, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, MPLS, NetBIOS, Network monitoring, Network protocols, Network security, Networking, Networking services, NFS, NIC, Nortel, Novell IPX/SPX, Novell NDS, OS, Patch management, patching, PEN testing, Performance management, Ping, Platform Security, Policies, Printers, provisioning, Risk management, Routers, Secure Coding, Security, Security Program Management, Security tokens, Servers, Single sign-on, SIP, Software, Spyware, SQL Server, SSL/TLS, Switches, TCP, Tech support, Trojans, Viruses, VPN, vulnerability management, Web security, WINS, Wireless, worms
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0 pts.

Network Resource Allocation cum Planning cum Technical Problem
This is the real commercial problem face by my company. Well, the reason I ask this problem is I salute and respect all of you as I believe all of you are as good as network solution company out there, or even better!! Lets me rephrase the entire problem again. Company expand so fast that [...]

Answer Question   |  May 22, 2006  10:17 AM
3Com, Access, Access control, Active Directory, Altiris, Application security, Availability, Avaya, backdoors, Bandwidth, Benchmarking, Bind, Biometrics, BMC, Browsers, Budgeting, Business/IT alignment, Cabling, Career development, Cisco, Compliance, Computer Associates, configuration, CRM, Current threats, Database, DataCenter, DB2, Dell, Desktop management applications, Desktops, DHCP, Digital certificates, Disaster Recovery, DNS, E-business, Encryption, Enterasys, Enterprise Desktop, Ethernet, Exchange, Fault isolation, FDDI, filtering, Firewalls, Forensics, Foundry, Frame Relay, General Directories, H.323, Hacking, Hardware, Hewlett-Packard, Hubs, human factors, IBM, IBM/Tivoli, Identity & Access Management, Incident response, Instant Messaging, Intel, Interoperability, InterSystems, Intrusion management, IPv4, IPv6, Juniper Networks, LANDesk, Laws, LDAP, Linux, Lotus Domino, Lucent, Management, Marimba, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Operations Manager, Microsoft Systems Management Server, Microsoft Windows, MPLS, MySQL, NetBIOS, Network applications management, Network management software, Network monitoring, Network protocols, Network security, Network testing, Networking, Networking services, NFS, Nortel, Novell, Novell IPX/SPX, Novell NDS, Online transaction processing, Oracle, OS, Partner facing, Patch management, patching, PEN testing, Performance management, Ping, Platform Security, Policies, Project management, Protocol analysis, provisioning, Regulations, Remote management, Risk management, ROI & cost justification, Routers, Secure Coding, Security, Security Program Management, Security tokens, Servers, Single sign-on, SIP, Software, Spyware, SQL, SQL Server, SSL/TLS, standards, Storage, Switches, Sybase, Systems management software, TCP, Tech support, Trojans, Unisys, Vector Networks, Vendors, Viruses, VPN, vulnerability management, Web security, WINS, Wireless, worms
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5 pts.