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Storage Management Guide
Data ONTAP® 7.1
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction to NetApp Storage Architecture
Understanding storage architecture
Understanding the file system and its storage containers
Using traditional volumes
Chapter 2: Quick setup for aggregates and volumes
Planning your aggregate, volume, and qtree setup
Configuring data storage
Converting from one type of volume to another
Overview of aggregate and volume operations
Chapter 3: Disk and Storage Subsystem Management
Understanding disks
Disk configuration and ownership
Initial configuration
Hardware-based disk ownership
Software-based disk ownership
Disk access methods
Multipath I/O for Fibre Channel disks
Clusters
Combined head and disk shelf storage systems
SharedStorage
Disk management
Displaying disk information
Managing available space on new disks
Adding disks
Removing disks
Sanitizing disks
Disk performance and health
Storage subsystem management
Viewing information
Changing the state of a host adapter
Chapter 4: RAID Protection of Data
Understanding RAID groups
Predictive disk failure and Rapid RAID Recovery
Disk failure and RAID reconstruction with a hot spare disk
Disk failure without a hot spare disk
Replacing disks in a RAID group
Setting RAID level and group size
Changing the RAID level for an aggregate
Changing 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
Automatic and manual disk scrubs
Scheduling an automatic disk scrub
Manually running a disk scrub
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: Aggregate Management
Understanding aggregates
Creating aggregates
Changing the state of an aggregate
Adding disks to aggregates
Destroying aggregates
Undestroying aggregates
Physically moving aggregates
Chapter 6: Volume Management
Traditional and FlexVol volumes
Traditional volume operations
Creating traditional volumes
Physically transporting traditional volumes
FlexVol volume operations
Creating FlexVol volumes
Resizing FlexVol volumes
Cloning FlexVol volumes
Configuring FlexVol volumes to grow automatically
Displaying a FlexVol volume's containing aggregate
General volume operations
Migrating between traditional volumes and FlexVol volumes
Managing duplicate volume names
Managing volume languages
Determining volume status and state
Renaming volumes
Destroying volumes
Increasing the maximum number of files in a volume
Reallocating file and volume layout
Managing FlexCache volumes
How FlexCache volumes work
Sample FlexCache deployments
Creating FlexCache volumes
Sizing FlexCache volumes
Administering FlexCache volumes
Space management for volumes and files
Space guarantees
Space reservations
Fractional reserve
Space management policies
Chapter 7: Qtree Management
Understanding qtrees
Understanding qtree creation
Creating qtrees
Understanding security styles
Changing security styles
Changing the CIFS oplocks setting
Displaying qtree status
Displaying qtree access statistics
Converting a directory to a qtree
Renaming or deleting qtrees
Chapter 8: Quota Management
Understanding quotas
When quotas take effect
Understanding default quotas
Understanding derived quotas
How Data ONTAP identifies users for quotas
Notification when quotas are exceeded
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
Activating or reinitializing quotas
Modifying quotas
Deleting quotas
Turning quota message logging on or off
Effects of qtree changes on quotas
Understanding quota reports
Types of quota reports
Overview of the quota report format
Quota report formats
Displaying a quota report
Glossary
Index
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