Welcome Everyone to Netapp session

5 days training agenda



Day 1 Netapp productline, Storage terminology, Filer models and hardware, Disk nomenclature, Data ontap and WAFL, NOW, Booting and shutdown procedure

Day 2 Ways to interact with filer, Filer build, Root volume, Configuration commands, Filerview, Adminhost, Autosupport, Operations manager, User administration

Day 3 Raid, Aggregates, Traditional and flexible volumes, Snapshots, CIFS, NFS, Qtree and quotas

Day 4 Flexclones, Deduplication, Disk scrubbing, VIFS, Lun management

Day 5 Snapmirror, Snapvault, Cluster, NOW account, Performance tools, Health checkup, Issues and Troubleshooting

Day1 Table of Contents



NetApp Products Storage Terminology WAFL and DOT Netapp filer models Netapp essential hardwares Disk nomenclature Netapp on the web (NOW) Booting and shutdown procedure of filer

NetApp Products


Filer
  

FAS20x0, FAS30x0, FAS60x0, ... FC disks, SATA disks, SAS disks FC & SAS disks faster (random access), SATA slower (archiving)

NearStore (Nearline Storage)

  

R100, R150, R200: (S)ATA disks Bigger, slower disks Typically used as a backup solution in tapeless environments

Nearline Storage (contd)



It acts as an interface between faster disk storage systems and slower tape backups.
 Features


of Nearstore

Backup & Recovery  Reference data & always available.  Disaster recovery

Without Nearline Storage

With Nearline Storage

Nearline Storage for replication

Netcache


Netcache appliance are distributed throughout the network and serve frequently requested data and content to end users with speed and security

Features of Netcache
Content distribution  Access control and filtering  Streaming  Application acceleration


Netcache (contd)

Netcache (contd)

Netcache (contd)

NetApp Products (cont.)

NetApp Products (cont.)



IBM N-series

N7000


N7700 (FAS6030) 2 Gbps FC ports, 64-bit N7900 (FAS6070) 2 Gbps FC ports, 64-bit N7600 (FAS6040) 4 Gbps FC ports, 64-bit N7800 (FAS6080) 4 Gbps FC ports, 64-bit

N5000


N5300 (FAS3040) 2 Gbps FC ports, 32-bit N5600 (FAS3070) 2 Gbps FC ports, 32-bit N5200 (FAS3020) 4 Gbps FC ports, 64-bit N5500 (FAS3050) 4 Gbps FC ports, 64-bit

N3000


N3300 (FAS2020) 4 Gbps FC ports N3600 (FAS2050) 4 Gbps FC ports

N3700 (FAS270)

NetApp Products (cont.)



Past
  

FAS200 series FAS800 series FAS900 series

Present
  

FAS2000 series (has recently (june 2007) replaced FAS200 series) FAS3000 series (replaces FAS800 & FAS900 series) FAS6000 series (very high-end)

Rebranding (March 2008): Network Appliance NetApp

Day1 Table of Contents



NetApp Products Storage Terminology WAFL and DOT Netapp filer models Netapp essential hardwares Disk nomenclature Netapp on the web (NOW) Booting and shutdown procedure of filer

SAN, NAS and DAS

Types of Disk Systems: JBOD



Multiple physical disks in an external cabinet Array connects to a single server only Provides higher storage capacity with increased number of drives Data not protected

Types of Disk Systems: Disk Arrays



Array controllers for optimized I/O operations and RAID calculations Higher speed interconnects between drives than JBODs Multiple host I/O channels Can be partitioned to allow each host to access its own

Storage Terminology


SAN, NAS and DAS

NAS storage speaks to a FILE



File Access to data

  

NFS (Unix) CIFS (Windows) Design made to share data

SAN storage speaks to a LUN



Block Access to data

  

SCSI FCAL/FCP (encapsulated SCSI) iSCSI (encapsulated SCSI)

Sharing of data difficult

Network Attached Storage - NAS

Storage Area Network - SAN

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NetApp Products Storage Terminology WAFL and DOT Netapp filer models Netapp essential hardwares Disk nomenclature Netapp on the web (NOW) Booting and shutdown procedure of filer

NetApp Terminology


Data ONTAP


= Operating system on Network Appliance filers and nearstores, borrows ideas from Unix (BSD) Same OS on every Filer/ NearStore model, different architectures supported (Intel x86, AMD, 64-bit, MIPS, ... depending on hardware model) All features are activated through licenses, eg. clustering Versions of data ontap
  

6.x.x 7.x.x 8.x.x

Data Ontap

WAFL

WAFL (contd)

WAFL (contd)

WAFL (contd)

NVRAM

NVRAM (contd)

NVRAM (contd)

NVRAM (contd)

NVRAM (contd)

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NetApp Products Storage Terminology WAFL and DOT Netapp filer models Netapp essential hardwares Disk nomenclature Netapp on the web (NOW) Booting and shutdown procedure of filer

Filer models comparison



We will visit the below link to find out more



Fas2000 series

http://www.netapp.com/us/products/storage-systems/fas2000/fas2000product-comparison.html




FAS 3000 series

http://www.netapp.com/us/products/storage-systems/fas3200/fas3200product-comparison.html




FAS 6000 series

http://www.netapp.com/us/products/storage-systems/fas6200/fas6200product-comparison.html

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NetApp Products Storage Terminology WAFL and DOT Netapp filer models Netapp essential hardwares Disk nomenclature Netapp on the web (NOW) Booting and shutdown procedure of filer

Netapp hardware


Head/filer

Contains motherboard, network connections, fiber connections, console connections, connections to disks, ...

(Disk) Shelf


Contain disks
 

DS14 (mk II): 14 disk per shelf FAS2000: 12, 20, 25 disks per shelf

Note: FAS200 and FAS2000 series



Motherboard and first disk shelf are integrated (disk shelf can be turned into filer and vice versa)

Filer components
Motherboard  NVRAM  Compact flash  Processor  Slots  Ports  Disk shelves  Disk drives  RLM


Netapp hardware (contd)



We will take a look at overview of Netapp hardware and PDF document Also will follow the below URL for disk shelves comparison http://www.netapp.com/us/products/storagesystems/disk-shelves-and-storage-media/diskshelves-comparison.html

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NetApp Products Storage Terminology WAFL and DOT Netapp filer models Netapp essential hardwares Disk nomenclature Netapp on the web (NOW) Booting and shutdown procedure of filer

Disk naming

Disk Naming (contd)

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NetApp Products Storage Terminology WAFL and DOT Netapp filer models Netapp essential hardwares Disk nomenclature Netapp on the web (NOW) Booting and shutdown procedure of filer

Booting and shutdown procedure



When a filer is shutdown it can be monitored through RLM



Telnet <RLM IP> System power on System power off System console

 

Reboot is the command to reboot the filer Halt command will get you to the ok prompt which is bios for ontap
       

OK prompt Autoboot Bye Boot_primary Boot_ backup Netboot Setenv Printenv

Contd

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning