NetApp – Clustered DATA ONTAP – Tutorial

Lingesh

8 years ago

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.

5. Go through this article if you would like to know that how the write operations happens on NetApp CDoT.

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.

6. This article explains that how to configure the two node cluster on NetApp C-Mode operating system – NetApp Clustered ONTAP.

7. This article talks about the License Management on NetApp C-Mode. You need to buy the required NetApp Licenses to enable certain features.

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).

13.Configure the export policy for NAS. This article will demonstrates that how to mount the NFS shares on Linux system.

14. NetApp is an Unified storage. This article will explorer more about SAN. It also demonstrates that how to provision the LUN and assign to Linux host.

Hope this tutorial will help you to start the journey on NetApp Clustered ONTAP.

In the NetApp Advanced tutorial ,we will see about