NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP is one of the emerging technology in the storage market. Cloud technologies demonstrated that how to reduce the IT operation cost by utilizing commodity hardware. This was the wake call for many of the proprietary hardware vendors in the market to provide the cheapest and reliable solution to the customer. So NetApp has wake of so early and decided to change the complete storage architecture from 7-Mode to Clustered Mode. NetApp Cluster Mode ONTAP works in distributed storage model and thanks to spinnaker networks for this solution (Spinnaker networks was acquired by NetApp).
NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP is designed to meet the current demands and future cloud solutions.
This tutorial’s targeted audience are system administrators and storage administrators who have prior knowledge on other SAN/NAS products.
1. First article talks about the NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP features.
2.The second article talks about NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP Objects and Components.
3.This articles explains about NetApp’s FAS series models and features.
4.This article explains about the NetApp’s Read operations in brief manner.
You need to follow the below listed articles in serial. Because, If you skip one article, you might not get the required objects to perform the tasks.
8.NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP shells Overview. You must know the difference about the NetApp shell.
9.Configure the NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP – Storage Aggregate.
10.Configure the storage failover between HA pairs nodes.
11.Configure the NetApp Data Vserver and LIF’s.
12. Learn more about the NetApp Volumes (FlexVol , Infinite volume,FlexCache Volume).
Hope this tutorial will help you to start the journey on NetApp Clustered ONTAP.
In the NetApp Advanced tutorial ,we will see about
- NetApp Volume Snapshots
- NetApp Snap-mirror
- NetApp Clone
- Performance Troubleshooting
Thanks to NetApp.
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kiran says
Wonderful Blog, please update in on regular basis.
Rajesh says
Provided valuable articles.
Thank you.
venkat says
Hi,
This tutorial is very good.Cloud please update the remaining topics.
Thanks,
Venkat.
Khai says
Very good tutorial materials. Thanks for sharing.
Eshwar says
Hello Amin ,
Very Good Article !!! When you are planning to release “NetApp Advanced tutorial” ?
Many people are waiting for the same .
BR,
Eswar
Manikandan says
nice tutorial to start cdot . looking for more tutorial for cdot
karthik says
Thanks a lot. This is the best tutorial to start Netapp cdot. When you will be posting “NetApp Advanced tutorial”. Waiting for it.
muni obbu says
i have a scenario like move netapp 7-mode snapvault backups to TSM backup server.
not sure how exactly how we will do the migration netapp 7-mode storage to TSM storage(snap vault Backups).
Regards
Muni Obbu
chandra.obbu@gmail.com
muni obbu says
please share us perfomance troubuleshooting steps and documents of netapp cluster data Ontap 8.2.X or 8.3.x
Brahma C V says
This tutorial is amazing. Even Netapp could not do this job having their tonnes of pdf documents. Not only for beginners but for advanced admins also. gives the direction. Thanks a lot for the effort. I have been strugginling for this info by going through the different pdfs on NOW site.
Manikandan Kannan says
WOW!!! Its really a good and useful for all … I really appreciate your hard work to prepare this and sharing the knowledge to others.
Thanks a lot and we are waiting for the advance level topics.
narayan says
Hi,
Really this articles are very useful to beginners to understand about net app cluster mode.i am eagerly looking forward to see advanced topics like
NetApp Volume Snapshots
NetApp Snap-mirror
NetApp Clone
Performance Troubleshooting