This is somewhat off-topic, so feel free to delete if not allowed...

Has anybody ever taken a repurposed/decommissioned Netapp HCI cluster and used it at home? I got two chassis and 8 nodes (H410C and H410S) from work that were destined for recycling. I replaced the CPUs with some decent deals from eBay and I've got proxmox installed without issue as far as functionality goes, but the fans are rather crazy. I realize this is enterprise gear and running it at home isn't intended, but still. I've got plenty of other Supermicro systems that I was able to mod to be reasonable while accepting a higher idle temp. The Netapp gear is just a bit more annoying than most in that regard.

I've tested it out with a physical fan controller and if I can get the fan RPM lowered to about half the default, the temps stay (reasonably) under control and the fans are actually pretty quiet.

I also tried replacing the fans with some quieter ones from another Supermicro system and it's a bit better now (still a bit loud), but I'd really like to just control the originals down to a much lower level instead with something like SMFC.

Unfortunately neither the chassis fans nor the node motherboard headers seem to like the standard Supermicro fan control commands. The mobo headers respond to them, but are set back to 100% in under a second. The chassis fans seem to accept the command, but don't listen to it at all (BMC reports 20% when set, fans still run at ~50% or higher).

I was going to try cross-flashing the BMC to the stock Supermicro FW (I ordered a T48 programmer to dump the flash first as a backup), but figured I'd check here to see if anyone has any other advice before I do that.

I'm sure this is quite niche, but has anyone else had luck with fan control on the HCI nodes, or cross-flashing to Supermicro FW? I'm not even sure if the Supermicro FW will change anything, but figure it's worth a try. If it doesn't, I might look at some sort of ESP32 based fan controller that can read the temps via IPMI over the network, but that's just extra complexity that SMFC running on the nodes would simply avoid.

The boards I've got are X11DPT-B and X10DRT-B+.

Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone,

I received an offer from NetApp for an MTS1 role in Bengaluru and would appreciate feedback on the compensation and whether the switch makes sense.

Experience: 1.3 years
Current company: Startup ( Series A fintech)

Current compensation

• Fixed: ₹19 LPA
• ESOPs: ₹4 lakh ESOPS per year
• No major variable component

NetApp offer

Base: ₹21.77 LPA
Target annual bonus: 8% of base, approximately ₹1.74 lakh
Broadband allowance: ₹26,400 per year
Total cash CTC: approximately ₹25.94 LPA ( base+Employer PF, gratuity and other components)
RSUs: $8,000 total, vesting over 3 years
Annualised RSU:  2.5 lakh
Total CTC: approximately ₹28.5 LPA

The recruiter mentioned that this is the maximum compensation available for the MTS1 level, so there does not appear to be any further room for negotiation.

My main concern is that the fixed salary increase is only around 14.5%, although the NetApp RSUs are more liquid and reliable than startup ESOPs.

Questions:

1. Is this compensation good for a NetApp MTS1 with 1.3 YOE?
2. What is the typical MTS1 compensation range at NetApp Bengaluru?
3. How are the work culture, learning opportunities, hikes and promotions?
4. Is the annual bonus usually paid close to 100%?
5. Is the $8,000 RSU grant standard for MTS1?
6. Would you switch from a startup at ₹19 lakh fixed plus ₹4 lakh yearly ESOPs for this offer?

Any insights from current or former NetApp employees would be helpful.

Curious about the kind of work culture, learning curve, team culture, and what would be useful to learn before starting. Anything to make onboarding easy.

Work was tossing a NetApp FAS2720 with a pair of DS212 disk shelves. Each shelf has 10x 8TB hard drives and two 894G U.2 SSDs. I have all of the licenses necessary for the machines, so thankfully that's not an issue. I did have to wipe the storage and recreate it so Sec would be happy but being that I also have the license keys, it was easy to get it up and running.

The two controllers are connected together on e0a/e0b for controller-to-controller communications, and e0c/e0d go to the 10G core switch in a lacp bond.

The target host is a Proxmox host with dual 10G nics in a bond, connected to the same core switch. For giggles, I did a basic test to write 50G of random data to an LVM volume created on the NetApp mount and on another iSCSI filer and found that the two filers didn't really differ much in time.

For the test, I used this command: time dd if=/dev/urandom of=./testfile bs=1G count=50 conv=fdatasync

In both test scenarios, a 100G LVM partition was created from the respective filer's volume group and prepared using EXT4. The filesystem was mounted, then the above command was ran.

From the Proxmox host to the other filer, it took 4m15s to write the 50G test file.
From the Proxmox host to the NetApp filer, it took 3m53s to write the 50G test file.

While I do have the SSDs, I do not think/remember if they were incorporated into the iscsi volume. When I look through NetApp's documentation for the FAS2720, the only thing I see is 'FlexCache' but from what I understand, this is only for a local cache against a remote volume, not a local volume.

I don't expect flash-based speeds, but I figured that the NetApp with custom hardware designed for storage would handily beat out a NAS built on commodity hardware that has no benefit of customized hardware. Looking at the dashboard, it seems that the NetApp barely breaks above 500IOPS. Latency hovers around 0.17ms, and throughput is usually 1.34MB/sec.

Any suggestions on how I can improve performance on the FAS2720?

Just wondering, need to automate a few tasks, and want to upgrade my skillset. SSL certificates renewal is top of mind for me, Ansible, Terraform, others ? Just curious to what others are using ?

Hello,

We have a new A20 with 16 x 7TiB NVMe disks. The system auto configured 1 aggregate 42.9TiB. It is using 3.47TiB from 15 of the 16 NVMe disks, RAID-DP.

This is essentially 1/2 the amount of available space.

I am attempting to determine how to reclaim this so we can get the 80TiB+ we have spec'd the system for. Should we blow away the aggregate and create a new one? Is there a best practice document that covers the best way to set these drives up.

Our goal is a single aggregate that will primarily be used by our Virtual Hosts.

Hello all,

I recently applied for a solution engineer role in netapp with the help of a referral and it has been 2 weeks and I haven’t heard anything. I was always under the assumption that a referral will land me into an interview atleast- but now I am confused.

Is this how referral are generally done in netapp? Or I should just close this chapter lol?

Also any advice on preparation if it ever happens will be appreciated 😭

Did anyone interview with NetApp for the Azure NetApp Files (ANF) team on August 6, 2026?

I have two spares drives in the machine, each are root-data-data, and I have one other single data partition on another drive. I have a single data aggregate which has two plexes, one containing 10 partitions & the other is 9 partitions. Is there some way of adding the single spare data partition to the the plex that only has 9 data partitions? Thanks in advance.

Did anyone had interview on august 7 netapp San Jose ca.?

FAS-2552 here. If I reinitialize the filer via "(4) Clean configuration and initialize all disks" at the boot menu, will the installed licenses be preserved? Or if not, would a config backup/restore restore the installed licenses? Unfortunately it's out of support (ancient) and I don't have access to any original license key(s). Here's what's installed. Thanks for any guidance!

Serial Number: x-xxxxxx

Owner: xxx

Package Type Description Expiration

----------------- -------- --------------------- -------------------

Base license Cluster Base License -

Serial Number: x-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Owner: xxx-01

Package Type Description Expiration

----------------- -------- --------------------- -------------------

NFS license NFS License -

CIFS license CIFS License -

iSCSI license iSCSI License -

FCP license FCP License -

FlexClone license FlexClone License -

Serial Number: x-xxxxxxxxxxxxxyy

Owner: xxx-02

Package Type Description Expiration

----------------- -------- --------------------- -------------------

NFS license NFS License -

CIFS license CIFS License -

iSCSI license iSCSI License -

FCP license FCP License -

FlexClone license FlexClone License -

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