Understanding System Manager

System Manager enables you to manage multiple storage systems and storage elements such as disks, volumes, and aggregates. System Manager provides a Web-based graphical management interface to manage common storage system functions from a Web browser.

You can use System Manager to manage single systems and HA configurations running versions of Data ONTAP 7.2.3 or later, Data ONTAP 8.x 7-Mode, and Data ONTAP 8.1 Cluster-Mode. You can also manage V-Series systems.

System Manager enables you to perform many common tasks such as:

•	Configure and manage storage elements such as disks, aggregates, volumes, qtrees, quotas, and LUNs.

•	Configure protocols such as CIFS and NFS and provision file sharing.

•	Configure protocols such as FC and iSCSI for block access.

•	Create vFiler units and manage them.

•	Set up SnapMirror relationships and manage SnapMirror tasks.

•	Manage HA configurations and perform takeover and giveback.

•	Perform cluster management, storage node management, and Vserver management operations in a cluster environment.

•	Create and configure Vservers, manage storage objects associated with a Vserver, and manage Vserver services.

•	Monitor and manage your storage systems.