NetApp SANtricity Storage Manager Configuration Tutorial

NetApp SANtricity Storage Manager

SANtricity software delivers superior performance and reliability administered through a powerful, intuitive interface.

With NetApp® SANtricity® storage software, storage administrators can achieve maximum storage performance and utilisation through extensive configuration flexibility and custom performance tuning. Plus, the software’s online administration, advanced data protection features and sophisticated diagnostic capabilities keep data always available and fully protected on the storage system.

SANtricity software:

• Simplifies storage management through an easy-to-use intuitive interface with wizards
• Delivers best-in-class reliability with automated features, online configuration options, state-of-the-art RAID, proactive monitoring and AutoSupport™ capabilities
• Extends data protection via FC- and IP-based remote mirroring, Dynamic Disk Pools, enhanced Snapshot™ copies, data-at-rest encryption, data assurance to ensure data integrity, and advanced diagnostics

Open the SANtricity Storage Manager from your host and add the NetApp stoarge arrays to Manage.

SANtricity ES Storage Manager contains the following Windows

1. Enterprise window

2. Storage Window

In Enterprise Window you can add the storage array to manage.

It has two methods

1. In Band Management
2. Out-of Band Management

This enterprise window, which has the added netapp storage array.

You can configure the alerts. It has different delivery methods.

Add your mail host information.

Configure the information to send and Frequency.

To collect the support data.

This is storage array window, to manage and monitor the particular storage array.

This window provides all the information about the storage array.

You can check the firmware details.

You can view the complete storage array profile.

You can view the event logs.

You can view the Hardware information.

You can manage your licenses using this Premium Features.

Configure the cache settings with your required thersold.

Configure the Hot Spare Disk for Redundancy.

You can do all monitoring like health status.

Firmware up-gradation Menu

Configure the Storage Array with RAID level and create Volumes.

Re-sizing the capacity of the RAID Array.

Create a volume using this menu. Map to the Host.

You can do the volume management like resizing of the volume ans snap shots.

Creating and managing Host groups and adding hosts using host's WWPN.

Now you can see the LUN which we have allocated.