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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