Final Words

Module 18 Data ONTAP 7.3 Fundamentals

Module Objectives
By the end of this module, you should be able to: Recall major areas in this course Identify available resources

2008 NetApp. All rights reserved.

Unified Storage

iSCSI

NFS CIFS Corporate LAN

FC

Ethernet

SAN (Blocks)

NAS (Files)

NetApp FAS
2008 NetApp. All rights reserved. 3

Console Access
system> version NetApp Release 7.3RC1: Wed Mar 5 02:17:31 PST 2008

system> sysconfig -v NetApp Release 7.3RC1: Wed Mar 5 02:17:31 PST 2008 System ID: 0084166726 (NetApp1) System Serial Number: 3003908 (NetApp1) slot 0: System Board 599 MHz (TSANTSA D0) Model Name: FAS250 Part Number: 110-00016 Revision: D0 Serial Number: 280646 Firmware release: CFE 1.2.0 system> license Processors: 2 Processor revision: B2 nfs site ABCDEFG Processor type: 1250 cifs site BCDEFGH Memory Size: 510 MB http site CDEFGHI NVMEM Size: 64 MB of Main Memory Used cluster not licensed
snapmirror not licensed snaprestore not licensed
2008 NetApp. All rights reserved. 4

FilerView

http://<system name or ipaddress>/na_admin

2008 NetApp. All rights reserved. 5

AutoSupport

Email Server

2008 NetApp. All rights reserved.

Role-Based Access Control

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) is a mechanism for managing a set of actions (capabilities) that a user or administrator can perform on a storage system. A role is created. Capabilities are granted to the role. Groups are assigned to one or more roles. Users are assigned to groups.

Groups

Roles

Capabilities

2008 NetApp. All rights reserved.

Disks and Data Protection

Volume 1

Raid Group 0

Spares

Parity Data Data Data

Spares are global.

2008 NetApp. All rights reserved.

Aggregates
Represent the physical storage Made up of one or more RAID groups A RAID group:
One or more data disks Parity disks
RAID 4 has only one parity disk RAID-DP has two parity disks Data is striped for parity protection

Volumes are allocated space from an aggregate

2008 NetApp. All rights reserved. 9

How Aggregates and FlexVol Volumes Work

FlexVol 1 FlexVol 2 FlexVol 3

Create RAID Groups Create aggregate

RAID groups are created as result

vol1

vol2 vol3

Create FlexVol 1
Only metadata space is used There is no preallocation of blocks to a specific volume

Aggregate RG1 RG2 RG3

Create FlexVol 2
RG1 RG2 RG3 Aggregate

WAFL allocates aggregate space as data is written

2008 NetApp. All rights reserved.

Populate volumes

10

How Snapshot Works

Active Data
File X

Snapshot
File X

Disk Blocks

Active version of X is now composed of blocks A, B, C Snapshot version of X remains composed of blocks A, B, C Atomically moves active data to new consistent state
2008 NetApp. All rights reserved. 11

NFS
SS1

vol0

flexvol1 data_files etc home eng_files misc_files

Network Connection

Client1

Client1

2008 NetApp. All rights reserved.

12

CIFS
Client B requests User authentication Authenticates Client B

Session with Client B Client A Client B Member Server Domain Controller

2008 NetApp. All rights reserved.

13

Qtrees
A qtree is a logically defined file system that exists as a special subdirectory at the root of a volume. Qtrees allow:
Partitioning of data within a volume Special quota requirements

Limitation
The maximum number of qtrees per volume is 4,995

2008 NetApp. All rights reserved.

14

SAN Protocols

WAFL Architecture

Block Services

SAN Protocols FCP iSCSI

Network Interfaces FC Encapsulated SCSI Ethernet Encapsulated SCSI

Fibre Channel Network

TCP/IP Network

2008 NetApp. All rights reserved.

15

Data ONTAP Simplified

Client

Data ONTAP

Client

Network

Network

Protocols

WAFL

RAID

Storage

Client

Client

Physical Memory
Client

NVRAM

Disks

2008 NetApp. All rights reserved.

16

FlexShare
FlexShare facilitates increased storage resource control in the following ways: Volume priorities Hints of cache buffers No license required

2008 NetApp. All rights reserved.

17

Standard Active-Active Configuration

Active-Active Controller Configuration
Network Active-Active Configuration Interconnect

FC-AL A Loops

FC-AL A Loops

FC-AL B Loops

2008 NetApp. All rights reserved.

18

Additional Data ONTAP Resources

Education
Data ONTAP CIFS Administration Data ONTAP NFS Administration Data ONTAP SAN Administration Basics Data Protection and Retention Fundamentals of Performance Analysis

Web sites
NOW NetApp (www.netapp.com)

2008 NetApp. All rights reserved.

19

Thank You!
Please fill out an evaluation.