Preface

Introduction

This guide describes how to configure, operate, and manage the storage resources of Network Appliance^TM storage systems that run Data ONTAP® 7.1 software. It covers all models. This guide focuses on the storage resources, such as disks, RAID groups, plexes, and aggregates, and how file systems, or volumes, are used to organize and manage data.

Audience

This guide is for system administrators who are familiar with operating systems, such as the UNIX®, Windows NT®, Windows 2000®, Windows Server 2003 Software®, or Windows XP® operating systems, that run on the storage system's clients. It also assumes that you are familiar with how to configure the storage system and how Network File System (NFS), Common Internet File System (CIFS), and Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP) are used for file sharing or transfers. This guide doesn't cover basic system or network administration topics, such as IP addressing, routing, and network topology.

Terminology

NetApp® storage products (filers, FAS appliances, and NearStore® systems) are all storage systems--also sometimes called filers or storage appliances.

The terms "flexible volumes" and "FlexVol^TM volumes" are used interchangeably in Data ONTAP documentation.

This guide uses the term type to mean pressing one or more keys on the keyboard. It uses the term enter to mean pressing one or more keys and then pressing the Enter key.

Command conventions

You can enter Data ONTAP commands on the system console or from any client computer that can access the storage system through a Telnet or Secure Socket Shell (SSH)-interactive session, or through the Remote LAN Manager (RLM).

In examples that illustrate commands executed on a UNIX workstation, the command syntax and output might differ, depending on your version of UNIX.

Keyboard conventions

When describing key combinations, this guide uses the hyphen (-) to separate individual keys. For example, Ctrl-D means pressing the Control and D keys simultaneously. Also, this guide uses the term enter to refer to the key that generates a carriage return, although the key is named "Return" on some keyboards.

Typographic conventions

The following table describes typographic conventions used in this guide.

Convention	Type of information
Italic font	Words or characters that require special attention. Placeholders for information you must supply. For example, if the guide says to enter the `arp -d` hostname command, you enter the characters `arp -d` followed by the actual name of the host. Book titles in cross-references.
`Monospaced` font	Command and daemon names. Information displayed on the system console or other computer monitors. The contents of files.
`Bold monospaced` font	Words or characters you type. What you type is always shown in lowercase letters, unless you must type it in uppercase letters.

Convention

Type of information

Italic font

Words or characters that require special attention.

Placeholders for information you must supply. For example, if the guide says to enter the arp -d hostname command, you enter the characters arp -d followed by the actual name of the host.

Book titles in cross-references.

Monospaced font

Command and daemon names.

Information displayed on the system console or other computer monitors.

The contents of files.

Bold monospaced font

Words or characters you type. What you type is always shown in lowercase letters, unless you must type it in uppercase letters.

Special messages

This guide contains special messages that are described as follows:

Note
A note contains important information that helps you install or operate the storage system efficiently.

Attention
An attention contains instructions that you must follow to avoid damage to the equipment, a system crash, or loss of data.