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We (sysops) like to create SMB shares and permissions using CLI so that we can script all the steps. We create a base folder for each group. We need to create a sub-folder for each user under their group folder and grant FULL permission to the user on that sub-folder and everything under it. I see a

Hello Everyone, I have an x200 cluster in my environment that runs on OneFS v7.1 with no issues. My question however is, can the OneFS operating software itself (not data) be backed up? I would like to backup and archive the operating system and would appreciate any help with the procedure if i

Hi All, Has anyone implemented defragmenter on PowerScale cluster on a backup workload? I have gone through the white papers but did not get much details

Hi, Whats the equivalent field as inode generation field in OneFS 8.1. Is inode number never reused after file/dir deletion?   Thanks      

Hi, Below is the URI to get the content(files/folders information) of the directory GET /namespace/access_point/dir_path As per documentation OneFS API supports a maximum URI length of 8,198 characters. Is there any solution get the content of the directory with path > 8192? Thanks, Sadhan

Hello all, We are going to demote our Isilon clusters, built on X210 nodes with OneFS 8.1.2 as we migrated to NetApp. We would like to know how to: Demote the nodes from the clusters Format the nodes Shutdown We will keep only one node to ensure that archives could be restored on, as we

Hi, I just upgraded our cluster to the latest OneFS 9.2.1.3 release. I have installed the Drive Support package with "isi upgrade patches install". Now the health check complains: CRITICAL: The following packages should be uninstalled: Drive_Support_v1.37.2. I tried to uninstall the package, but

We are in a situation where we need to find all of the symlinks on the filesystem. On a linux machine, I would run this command:       find /ifs -xtype l -ls > myfile.txt   Is there a better/faster way to do this?  I thought about using isi_for_array to run this, but

Hi there, documentation is not as exact as I wish it would be, so maybe someone here can help me or tell me if this is working: Does SMB Continuous Availability also work well with Dynamic IP Pools? Or will it only work with Static IP Pools?

Hey, we want to add AD group permission recursively to one of our folders. When doing it through windows it takes long time till all permissions applied to subdirectories and files. there is option to append new ACL to folder through isilon and not replace all permissions ? clone & inherit

Hi, In our isilon cluster sync iq job is running for last 6 days and only 2 Tb data has completed. We run 2 sync iq jobs interval of 12 hours. I am out of any idea any suggestion.

hello all I have configured a folder called lock in the path \\isilon\smb\lock with the following settings Default retention time span5 minutesMinimum retention time spanNo valueMaximum retention time spanNo valueAutomatically commit files1 minuteOverride retention date is disabled I then create

We use exclusively NFSv4 for end-user access.  It is possible in the Web UI to disable NFSv3 entirely.  However we use InsightIQ and it uses NFS to access the File System Analytics. Has anyone experience of disabling NFSv3, and knows if InsightIQ can still connect to the FSA data? 

Can anyone provide a working example of the syntax to access the 'namespace' service ? I'm using Ansible uri module with session cookies. I know the module works because I can get the sessionID and use it to get 'platform' queries successfully, but when I try to do the same for the 'namespace'

I cannot find SFP Replacement Procedure of Isilon H500 on Online Solve and Online support. If anyone have this, please tell us url link. I want to know if we can replace SFP with online, and if we need to do any command to activate SFP before and after replacement.

Hi, OneFS 8.2.2 I created a local user who shall evaluate the changelists of two snapshots for backup purposes. The user is member of a role with the privileges ISI_PRIV_JOB_ENGINE and ISI_PRIV_SNAPSHOT. He can create snapshots and run the ChangelistCreate job. But when he enters the command "isi_

Hello     I have a question about the compatibility of different generation isilon in one cluster,  currently we have 5 nodes nl400 and 5 nodes nl410,  we need buy more nodes but generation 6 model  a200.  my question is, we will have problems ?? i don't found inform

Hello Everyone! I have a new Isilon x200 with OneFs v8 cluster and due to a recent power outage problem, the whole 12 drives in one of the nodes is in the "SED_ERROR" state. I have re-imaged the node severally, re-formatted the node and all the drives but have not been able to return the drives st

Hello, I am trying to download IOCA using FTP link as instructed by below KB, but it asks for credential. Please assist. KB --> https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-uk/000021811/isilon-how-to-run-the-isilon-on-cluster-analysis-tool-ioca FTP Link --> ftp://ftp.emc.com/pub/rcm/Isilon/tools/I

Hi, I installed the OneFS v9.2.0.0 Simulator on ESXi v7 using the OVA and all seemed to install ok as well as the cluster setup. However on the Dashboard I see these warnings: "Unprovisionable drive(s): 1:bay2-6,16-20,31-35,46-50" "Node 1 is unprovisioned" I chose an SSD on the ESXi host during