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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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