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System Administration Storage Management Guide
Data ONTAP™ 6.4
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction to Network Appliance Filers
About filers
How you administer a filer
About filer main unit components
About disk shelves
About Data ONTAP
Filer administration with Data ONTAP
Getting command information in Data ONTAP
Documentation for Data ONTAP
Chapter 2: Introduction to Filer Administration
Managing access from administration hosts
Managing local user accounts
Accessing a filer to administer it
Accessing a filer from the console or a Telnet session
Accessing a filer with a Remote Shell connection
Accessing a filer with FilerView
Editing command-line commands
Using Data ONTAP commands at different privilege levels
Receiving automatic technical support
Understanding the autosupport feature
Events that trigger autosupport messages
Contents of autosupport messages
Configuring autosupport
Understanding the filer's default volume
Default directories in the default volume
Contents of the /etc directory
Editing configuration files
Configuring filer startup
Understanding the options and vol options commands
About the options command
About the vol options command
Performing common tasks
Halting the filer
Booting and rebooting the filer
Editing the filer's boot configuration file
Accessing the default directories on the filer
Recovering from /etc/rc errors
Synchronizing filer system time
Setting the filer date and time
Managing licenses
Understanding core files
Understanding large files
Configuring message and event logging
Configuring audit logging
Configuring Telnet sessions
Maintaining filer security through options
Filer configuration backup and cloning
Chapter 3: Data Organization Using Volumes and Qtrees
Understanding data management
Understanding volumes and qtrees
Volume structure
Creating volumes
Choosing a language for a volume
Changing the language of a volume
Changing the state of a volume
Setting space reservation values for volumes
Moving volumes
Renaming volumes
Changing the root volume
Destroying volumes
Understanding qtree creation
Creating qtrees
Understanding qtree and volume security styles
Understanding file access and security style
Changing the security style of a volume or qtree
Changing the CIFS oplocks setting
Displaying qtree status
Setting space reservation values for qtrees
Making a directory into a qtree or a qtree into a directory
Deleting qtrees
Increasing the maximum number of files in a volume
Setting space reservations for files
Chapter 4: RAID Group Management
Understanding RAID groups
Specifying the size of RAID groups
How RAID handles disk failures
Disk failure with a hot spare disk
Disk failure without a hot spare disk
Controlling the speed of RAID operations
Controlling the speed of RAID data reconstruction
Controlling the speed of disk scrubbing
Controlling the speed of plex resynchronization
Controlling the speed of mirror verification
Starting and stopping disk scrubbing
Checking and correcting parity
Chapter 5: Disk Management
Understanding disks on the filer
Multipath I/O for fibre channel disks
Storage subsystem management
Changing the state of a host adapter
Viewing storage subsystem information
Adding disks
Removing disks
Determining free disk space
Chapter 6: User Information Maintenance
About maintaining user information
Using configuration files to maintain user information
Understanding configuration files
Accessing the configuration files
Editing the configuration files
Using NIS to maintain user information
Changing the user name search order
Chapter 7: Cluster Management
About clusters
How a clustered system works
Cluster operation modes
Normal operation mode
Takeover operation mode
Giveback operation mode
Understanding interface configurations for takeover
Configuring dedicated and standby interfaces
Configuring mirrored, dual-MAC interfaces
Enabling cluster failover in a DAFS configuration
Designating failover addresses in etc/hosts
Enabling failover paths on the filer
Managing a cluster
Managing a cluster in normal mode
Enabling negotiated failover between filers
Managing a cluster in takeover mode
Managing an emulated filer
Backing up and restoring from the emulated filer
Performing a giveback
Enabling automatic giveback
Configuring automatic giveback
Chapter 8: Disk Space Management Using Quotas
Understanding quotas
When quotas take effect
Understanding default quotas
Understanding derived quotas
How Data ONTAP identifies users
Understanding the /etc/quotas file
Overview of the /etc/quotas file
Fields of the /etc/quotas file
Sample quota entries
Special entries for mapping users
How disk space owned by default users is counted
Turning quotas on or off
Turning quota message logging on or off
Creating or resizing quotas
Deleting quotas
Effects of qtree changes on quotas
Understanding quota reports
Types of quota reports
Overview of the quota report format
Detailed information about the ID and Quota Specifier fields
How to display disk space thresholds
How to display soft limits
Displaying a quota report
Effects of hard quotas on clients
Chapter 9: System Information and Performance
Filer configuration information
Storage information
Volume information
File statistics for volumes
Options for the filestates command
Checksum upgrade status
Filer statistics
Environmental status information
Fibre channel information
NFS and RPC statistics
CIFS statistics
DAFS statistics
Improving filer performance
Appendix A: Filer Problem Messages
Serious error messages
Network error codes
Disk and FC-AL messages from the Storage Health Monitor
Cluster messages
LCD messages
Syslog messages
Console message
Appendix B: Booting the Filer
Booting from the system boot diskette set
Booting the F87 filer
Glossary
Index
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