Chapter 1

Introduction to Network Appliance Filers

About this chapter  

This chapter describes what a filer is, what it consists of, and how you can use the filer software, Data ONTAP, to configure and manage filers.

Topics in this chapter  

This chapter discusses the following topics:

• 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

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