Day1 NetApp Basics

Welcome Everyoneto Netapp session

5 days training agenda Day 1

Netapp productline, Storage terminology, Filer models and hardware, Disk nomenclature, Data ontap and WAFL, NOW, Booting and shutdown procedure

Day 2

Ways to interact with filer, Filer build, Root volume, Configuration commands, Filerview, Adminhost, Autosupport, Operations manager, User administration

Day 3

Raid, Aggregates, Traditional and flexible volumes, Snapshots, CIFS, NFS, Qtree and quotas

Day 4

Flexclones, Deduplication, Disk scrubbing, VIFS, Lun management

Day 5

Snapmirror, Snapvault, Cluster, NOW account, Performance tools, Health checkup, Issues and Troubleshooting

Day1 Table of Contents

NetApp Products

Storage Terminology

WAFL and DOT

Netapp filer models

Netapp essential hardwares

Disk nomenclature

Netapp on the web (NOW)

Booting and shutdown procedure of filer

NetApp Products Filer

FAS20x0, FAS30x0, FAS60x0, ...

FC disks, SATA disks, SAS disks

FC & SAS disks faster (random access), SATA slower (archiving)

NearStore (Nearline Storage)

R100, R150, R200: (S)ATA disks

Bigger, slower disks

Typically used as a backup solution in tapeless environments

Nearline Storage (contd)

It acts as an interface between faster disk storage systems and slower tape backups.

Features of Nearstore Backup & Recovery Reference data & always available. Disaster recovery

Without Nearline Storage

With Nearline Storage

Nearline Storage for replication

Netcache

Netcache appliance are distributed throughout the network and serve frequently requested data and content to end users with speed and security

Features of Netcache Content distribution Access control and filtering Streaming Application acceleration

Netcache (contd)

Netcache (contd)

Netcache (contd)

NetApp Products (cont.)

NetApp Products (cont.) IBM N-series

N7000

N7700 (FAS6030) – 2 Gbps FC ports, 64-bit




N5000





N3000

N3300 (FAS2020) – 4 Gbps FC ports

N3600 (FAS2050) – 4 Gbps FC ports

N3700 (FAS270)

NetApp Products (cont.) Past

FAS200 series

FAS800 series

FAS900 series

Present

FAS2000 series (has recently (june 2007) replaced FAS200 series)

FAS3000 series (replaces FAS800 & FAS900 series)

FAS6000 series (very high-end)

Rebranding (March 2008):

Network Appliance → “NetApp”


NetApp Products

Storage Terminology

WAFL and DOT

Netapp filer models


Disk nomenclature



SAN, NAS and DAS

Types of Disk Systems: JBOD

Multiple physical disks in an

external cabinet Array connects to a single

server only Provides higher storage

capacity with increased

number of drives Data not protected

Types of Disk Systems: Disk Arrays

Array controllers for

optimized I/O operations

and RAID calculations Higher speed interconnects

between drives than

JBODs Multiple host I/O channels Can be partitioned to allow

each host to access its own

Storage Terminology SAN, NAS and DAS

NAS storage speaks to a FILE

File Access to data

NFS (Unix) CIFS (Windows) Design made to share data

SAN storage speaks to a LUN

Block Access to data

SCSI FCAL/FCP (encapsulated SCSI) iSCSI (encapsulated SCSI)

Sharing of data difficult

Network Attached Storage - NAS

Storage Area Network - SAN


NetApp Products

Storage Terminology

WAFL and DOT

Netapp filer models


Disk nomenclature



NetApp Terminology

Data ONTAP = Operating system on Network Appliance filers and

nearstores, borrows ideas from Unix (BSD) Same OS on every Filer/ NearStore model, different

architectures supported (Intel x86, AMD, 64-bit, MIPS, ... depending on hardware model)

All features are activated through licenses, eg. clustering

Versions of data ontap

6.x.x 7.x.x 8.x.x

Data Ontap

WAFL

WAFL (contd)

WAFL (contd)

WAFL (contd)

NVRAM

NVRAM (contd)

NVRAM (contd)

NVRAM (contd)

NVRAM (contd)


NetApp Products

Storage Terminology

WAFL and DOT

Netapp filer models


Disk nomenclature



Filer models comparison We will visit the below link to find out more

Fas2000 series http://www.netapp.com/us/products/storage-systems/fas2000/fas2000-prod

uct-comparison.html

FAS 3000 series http://www.netapp.com/us/products/storage-systems/fas3200/fas3200-prod

uct-comparison.html

FAS 6000 series http://www.netapp.com/us/products/storage-systems/fas6200/fas6200-prod

uct-comparison.html

http://www.netapp.com/us/products/storage-systems/fas2000/fas2000-product-comparison.html






Day1 Table of Contents NetApp Products

Storage Terminology

WAFL and DOT

Netapp filer models


Disk nomenclature



Netapp hardware

Head/filer

Contains motherboard, network connections, fiber connections, console connections, connections to disks, ...

(Disk) Shelf

Contain disks

DS14 (mk II): 14 disk per shelf FAS2000: 12, 20, 25 disks per shelf

Note: FAS200 and FAS2000 series

Motherboard and first disk shelf are integrated (disk shelf can be turned into filer and vice versa)

Filer components Motherboard NVRAM Compact flash Processor Slots Ports Disk shelves Disk drives RLM

Netapp hardware (contd)

We will take a look at overview of Netapp hardware and PDF document

Also will follow the below URL for disk shelves comparison

http://www.netapp.com/us/products/storage-systems/disk-shelves-and-storage-media/disk-shelves-comparison.html





Storage Terminology

WAFL and DOT

Netapp filer models


Disk nomenclature



Disk naming

Disk Naming (contd)


Storage Terminology

WAFL and DOT

Netapp filer models


Disk nomenclature



Booting and shutdown procedure When a filer is shutdown it can be monitored through RLM

Telnet <RLM IP> System power on System power off System console

Reboot is the command to reboot the filer

Halt command will get you to the ok prompt which is bios for ontap

OK prompt Autoboot Bye Boot_primary Boot_ backup Netboot Setenv Printenv

Contd

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the

end.But it is, perhaps, the end of

the beginning

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