System administration for a storage system running MultiStore

Types of system administration tasks

The following list describes the types of system administration tasks that you perform when managing a storage system running MultiStore:

Hosting storage system tasks, which are the same as those for a storage system that is not supporting vFiler units
MultiStore management tasks, which are related to establishing vFiler units and managing resources on vFiler units
Tasks related to using Data ONTAP features that are supported by vFiler units

Hosting storage system tasks

You can perform tasks related to managing the resources on the hosting storage system in the same way that you perform them on a storage system without a MultiStore license. You can use either the command line or FilerView to perform these tasks. The following tasks are some examples:

Managing volumes, disks, and RAID groups
Increasing data availability through Snapshot^TM management, SnapMirror management, and volume copy
Backing up and recovering data

These tasks are covered in detail in the other volumes of the Data ONTAP System Administration set, particularly the File Access Management Guide, the Storage Management Guide, and the Data Protection Guide.

MultiStore management tasks

From the hosting storage system, you can manage MultiStore by doing the following tasks from the command line or FilerView:

Enabling and disabling the MultiStore license
Allowing and disallowing protocols to be run on a vFiler unit
Creating a vFiler unit
Setting up a vFiler unit
Starting and stopping a vFiler unit
Destroying a vFiler unit
Moving resources to and from a vFiler unit
Monitoring the status of a vFiler unit

For more information about these tasks, see Chapter 2, Managing MultiStore.

From a destination storage system, you can perform the following additional tasks:

Moving a vFiler unit from one hosting storage system to another
Creating a disaster-recovery vFiler unit

See Chapter 6, Disaster Recovery and Data Migration for more information.

Tasks related to using Data ONTAP on vFiler units

You can use Data ONTAP features on individual vFiler units in the same way that you use them on a storage system. Some of the tasks related to these features can be performed by vFiler unit administrators. FilerView cannot be used to configure or use these features on vFiler units; you must use the command line. The tasks are as follows:

Managing users

Information about managing users (for example, information about using the /etc/usermap.cfg file for mapping users) is the same for storage systems and vFiler units.
For more information, see the System Administration Guide.
Managing iSCSI, LUNs, and initiator groups
For more information, see Understanding LUNs on a vFiler unit.
Managing NFS exports and CIFS shares
For more information, see File Access Using NFS and CIFS.
Managing quotas
For more information, see Disk Space Management Using Quotas.
Preparing vFiler units for virus protection
For more information, see Virus Protection for CIFS.