Data ONTAP™ 6.5
System Administration Storage Management Guide

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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
	Understanding a volume's RAID structure
	Volume structure
Creating volumes
Choosing a language for a volume
Changing the language of a volume
Changing the state of a volume
Physically moving volumes
Renaming volumes
Changing the root volume
Destroying volumes
SnapLock storage solution
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 a qtree
Changing the CIFS oplocks setting
Displaying qtree status
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 reservation for files

Chapter 4: RAID Group Management
Understanding RAID groups
Configuring RAID type and group size while creating a volume
How RAID handles disk failures
	Disk failure with a hot spare disk
	Disk failure without a hot spare disk
Modifying the RAID type for a volume
Modifying the size of RAID groups
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
Scheduling or manually running disk scrubbing
Checking and correcting parity
Minimizing media error disruption of RAID reconstructions
	Handling of media errors during RAID reconstruction
	Continuous media scrub
	Disk media error failure thresholds
Viewing RAID status

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
Ascertaining free disk space
Disk sanitization
Disk ownership assignment on an FAS270/FAS270c appliance

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
Using LDAP to maintain user information

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
Checking cluster configuration

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 filestats 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 messages

Appendix B: Booting the Filer
Booting from the system boot diskette set
Booting the F87 filer
Booting the FAS200 series appliances
Using filers as netboot servers

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Data ONTAP™ 6.5 System Administration Storage Management Guide

Data ONTAP™ 6.5
System Administration Storage Management Guide