Received an offer from NetApp Bangalore for a MTS 3 role. Wanted to understand how the overall work culture, learning opportunities, work-life balance, and job security are at NetApp currently.
Would appreciate insights from current or former employees.
We recently acquired NetApp AFF C30 with ONTAP 9.17.1P3 and had few questions.
Does S3 not have a seperate UI? What if I want to provide the S3 browse only feature to other teams?
We have 4 eth ports. We are planning to use 2 of each nodes for both iSCSI and NVMe/TCP and 2 for s3. Its 25G port, we normally have 15~G Traffic in other storages. Is this best practice?
We configured NVMe/TCP in one of our hosts and did fio random read tests and we are only getting 30K IOPS. Is this a normal for NetApp?? We are used to 180k+ IOPS in other storages.
(sudo fio --filename=/tmp/fio-test-file --direct=1 --rw=randread --bs=4k --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=256 --runtime=120 --numjobs=4 --time_based --group_reporting --name=iops-test-job --eta-newline=1 --readonly)
Setup:
- Dell R630 running VMware, TrueNAS as VM
- LSI 9300-8e (SAS3008, IT mode, 12Gbps) passed through to TrueNAS
- NetApp DS212C with IOM12A modules (firmware 0300)
- SFF-8644 to SFF-8644 cable, IOM A port
Situation:
- Enclosure is visible: `[1:0:0:0] enclosu NETAPP DS21212IOM12A 0300`
- SAS link is up: HBA phys negotiating at 12Gbps, expander phys 0-3 at 12Gbps
- 6 drives physically installed (slots 3,4,7,8,10,11), IOM confirms they're present in SES status page
- ALL drive-side phys on the expander show "Phy disabled"
- `sg_ses --page=2` shows all slots as "Not installed" or "Noncritical" with no SAS addresses
- `sg_senddiag` to send SES control page returns: `Sense key: Illegal Request / Invalid field in CDB (0x24 0x00)`
The IOM is completely rejecting SES write commands. HBA SAS address is already in NetApp OUI range (`500a098-0-0811-8d88`) — pre-flashed by theartofserver specifically for NetApp shelf use.
Has anyone successfully unlocked IOM12 fw 0300 with a non-NetApp initiator? Is there a firmware version that doesn't enforce the ONTAP handshake? Or is IOM12E the only real path forward here?
Happy to share full sg_ses/dmesg output if useful.
Hi all!
Can I upgrade my DS4243 JBOD to IOM6 with NetApp 111-00190+B0 controller?
If I can, can I upgrade only one and leave the other IOM3 controller there and don't use it?
If I can't, can I use only 1 IOM6 and unplug the IOM3?
Thank you!
Do you run VSCAN on your NetApp? I'm interested in your experience with the product and which A/V vendor you went with. If you're not using it, how are you justifying it with your infosec/secops team?