NetApp Storage

Environment
Module 1
Data ONTAP 7-Mode Administration

Module Objectives
By the end of this module, you should be able to:
Identify the key features and functions of
NetApp platforms
State the advantages of a NetApp storage
system
Distinguish between SAN and NAS topologies
Describe the unified storage architecture
Access the Support knowledge base to obtain
software and hardware documentation

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NetApp and the

Storage Industry

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Storage Industry
Data storage is big business
Industry worth: $27B

Centralized storage
Reduces IT costs
Increases flexibility
Maximizes efficiency of processes and services

Trends in the marketplace

Data lifecycle
Virtualization
Storage efficiency

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Security
Data in motion
Cloud storage
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NetApp: Leader in the Storage Industry

NetApp firsts:
NetApp first in the industry to support unified
storage (NAS and SAN) on a single platform
NetApp first in the industry with FCoE support
and Unified Connect
NetApp first storage vendor to decouple the
physical storage from the logical storage
(flexible volumes)

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NetApp: Leader in the Storage Industry

NetApp provides:
Hardware solutions

FAS (fabric-attached storage):

Also known as storage controllers
FAS6200 series: Enterprise storage
FAS3200 series: Performance storage
FAS2000 series: Departmental storage
NOTE: Data ONTAP 8.0 not supported on FAS2020 or FAS2050
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NetApp FAS Storage Systems

New
Models*

Max.
Capacity

64-bit
Aggregate
Limit*

Current
Models

Max.
Capacity

FAS2020

68TB

FAS2040

272TB

30 TB

FAS2050

104TB

FAS3210

420TB

50 TB

FAS3140

840TB

FAS3240

1200TB

50 TB

FAS3160

1344TB

FAS3270

1920TB

70 TB

FAS3170

1680TB

FAS6210

2400TB

70 TB

FAS6040

1680TB

FAS6240

3840TB

100 TB

FAS6080

2352TB

FAS6280

5760TB

100 TB

* Based upon Data ONTAP 8.0.1 7-Mode

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NetApp FAS6200 Series

The FAS6210 in a single
controller configuration

The FAS6210 in a dual

controller configuration
The FAS6280 is a single
controller with optional
IOXM module
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NetApp: Leader in the Storage Industry

NetApp provides:
Hardware solutions

V-Series (Virtualization Series):

Virtualization of heterogeneous storage
V6200 series: Enterprise storage
V3200 series: Performance storage

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NetApp provides:
Hardware solutions

Compatible disk shelves:

Fibre Channel (FC)
DS14 Mark 4 FC
Serial ATA (SATA)
DS14 Mark 2 AT
Serial-attached SCSI (SAS)
DS4243
DS2246
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SSDs in a NetApp Disk Shelf

Solid State Drives (SSDs)

SSDs can provide consistently fast response times
for your mission-critical applications
Supported in the highly reliable DS4243 disk shelf
24 x 100GB SSDs per shelf
Available with higher performance NetApp FAS and
V-Series storage controllers running Data ONTAP 8.0.1 or
later
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NetApp: Leader in the Storage Industry

NetApp provides:
Hardware solutions

Flash Cache (PAM II)

Formerly Performance
Acceleration Module (PAM)
Eliminate up to 75% of the highperformance disk drives in a
storage system while providing
better response time across
the same I/O throughput
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Use Cases for Flash Cache and SSDs

Intelligent Caching

Persistent Storage

NetApp Flash Cache (PAM II)

SSDs in NetApp DS4243 shelf

Good fit when

Good fit when

Workload is random read intensive

Hot data is dynamic or unknown
Administration free approach desired

Workload is random read intensive

Must have consistently fast
response times

Example workloads

Example Workloads

Server and desktop virtualization

File services, e-mail, databases
Technical applications

Databases for mission-critical

applications

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NetApp: Leader in the Storage Industry

NetApp provides:
Hardware solutions
Award-winning OS platforms

Data
ONTAP 7G

7-Mode

Data
ONTAP
8.0

ClusterMode

Data
ONTAP GX

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Data ONTAP 8.0.X

7-Mode

7-Mode

Designed to be a
simple transition from
Data ONTAP 7G
Scale-up technology
allows aggregates to be
100 TB (higher in the
future)
Simple configuration for
NAS or SAN

Storage Pool
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Cluster-Mode

ClusterMode

Designed to be a
simple transition from
Data ONTAP GX
Scale-out technology
allows a pool of storage
controllers to manage the
storage cluster
Single NAS shared
namespace across the
cluster

Storage Pool
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Upgrading to Data ONTAP 8.0.X

Data
ONTAP
7.3.x

Conversion

Data
ONTAP GX

NDU or
Data In Place

Conversion

Data In Place

Conversion

Data
ONTAP 8.0.x
Cluster-Mode

Data
ONTAP 8.0.x
7-Mode

Conversion = Disks and system wipe-clean

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Data ONTAP-v
Data ONTAP as a virtual machine (or Data ONTAP-v)
Runs in VMware vSphere 4.1 with an Fujitsu Primergy
BX400 Blade Server

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NetApp: Leader in the Storage Industry

NetApp provides:
Hardware solutions
Award-winning OS platforms
Security solutions
NetApp DataFort product line:
Protects data-in-flight and data-at-rest
NetApp DataFort
Lifetime Key Management Appliance

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NetApp: Leader in the Storage Industry

NetApp provides:
Hardware solutions
Award-winning OS platforms
Security solutions
Software management products
Storage Suite

Operations Manager
Protection Manager
Provisioning Manager
File Storage Resource Manager

Server Suite

SnapDrive for UNIX

SnapDrive for Windows

Application Suite

Data Center Automation

Software

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SnapManager for Exchange

SnapManager for SharePoint
SnapManager for SAP
SnapManager for Oracle
SnapManager for SQL Server

SANscreen
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NetApp: Leader in the Storage Industry

StorageGRID
object-based storage

NAS
Protocols

HTTP REST
Protocol

Namespace

Metadata
tagging & search

Policy API

NAS
I/O

Native
Object
Access

NetApp provides:
Hardware solutions
Award-winning OS platforms
Security solutions
Software management products

Policy
driven
auto
mgmt.

Object-level Data Management

Location-transparent Distributed Object Store
ONTAP8

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Storage Architectures

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NAS and SAN Topology

NFS
Corporate
LAN

iSCSI

CIFS
FCoE
FC

NAS
(File-level
access)

SAN
(Block-level
access)
NetApp FAS

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Data ONTAP Supported Protocols

NetApp storage systems support both SAN and NAS
protocols simultaneously
NAS

NFS
CIFS
FTP
HTTP
WebDAV

SAN
FC
iSCSI
FCoE

NFS
CIFS
iSCSI
FCoE
LAN (Ethernet)

FC

Data
ONTAP

FC Network
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Data ONTAP 7.3.X Architecture

Network

Clients

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Protocols

WAFL

Physical
Memory

RAID

Storage

NVRAM

Disk
Array

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Clients

D-Blade

Network

M-Host

Client Protocol
Access

Data ONTAP 8.0.X 7-Mode Architecture

Protocols

WAFL

Physical
Memory

FreeBSD

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RAID

Storage

NVRAM

Disk
Array

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Support Options

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NetApp Support
NetApp provides technical support through:
Support products

SupportEdge Premium
SupportEdge Standard
SupportEdge Secure for Government
Storage Availability Audits
Rapid Deployment Services
Technical Global Advisor

Self-service
Support (formerly NOW) site
My AutoSupport
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Support Site

NetApp online support and services Web site

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Storage Efficiency in My AutoSupport

Highlights efficiency of
a system and effective
utilization of NetApp
Overview of physical
and effective capacity
Provides storage
efficiency saving
calculations from:

Dedupe
Snapshot
RAID-DP
Flexclone
Thin Provisioning

Is available on the
NOW site

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Module Summary
In this module, you should have learned to:
Identify the key features and functions of
NetApp platforms
State the advantages of a NetApp storage
system
Distinguish between SAN and NAS topologies
Describe the unified storage architecture
Access the Support knowledge base to obtain
software and hardware documentation

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Exercise
Module 1: NetApp Storage
Environment
Estimated Time: 15 minutes

Check Your Understanding: Answers

What are three NetApp controller product lines?
FAS systems
V-Series
VTL

What is the main function of WAFL?

WAFL (Write Anywhere File Layout) makes decisions on how
to write data to disk

How is Data ONTAP 7G and Data ONTAP GX related

in Data ONTAP 8.0?
Data ONTAP 7G and Data ONTAP GX are now merged into a
single code under Data ONTAP 8.0, however, a storage
system may be only configured one mode at a time

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Check Your Understanding: Answers

(Cont.)
What are the three storage topologies
supported by Data ONTAP?
NAS
SAN
Object with StorageGRID

How is SAN different than NAS?

SAN topologies are used for block-based storage
NAS topologies are used for file-based storage

Where can you find support for Data ONTAP?

SupportEdge
Support site
My AutoSupport
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