Clustered Data Ontap 8.3 Flash Pool Administration

 Flash Pool Administration:


First enable the hybrid-enabled option in an existing aggregate.

Then add the SSD disks to an existing aggregate.

To list the status.

To list the disks in that aggregate. Now that aggregate contains both FCAL and SSD disks.

To display the information from System Manager also.

Clustered Data Ontap 8.3 Administration Part-V

Clustered Data Ontap 8.3 Administration:

User Administration:


To display an existing user information.

To display the RBAC - Rule information.

Creating a new rule with only access of Storage commands alone.

Users those who have this rule, then they able to access the storage commands only.

To list the rules.

To create a new user senthil login through only SSH and the rule  newr1.

Now login with user senthil,  but only the user can run the storage related commands only.

Clustered Data Ontap 8.3 Administration Part-IV

Clustered Data Ontap 8.3 Administration:

Volume Efficiency Management:


To list the aggregate and Kumar_aggr doesn't contain any volumes.

To list an existing volumes and all volumes are owned by senthil_aggr.

Now we can an existing volume from one aggregate to another aggregate.

To check the process status of the volume move with volume move show command.

Replicating Phase
Cut-over phase
Finishing Phase.

Now you list the volume show command and the volume is owned by kumar_aggr.

Volume Clone Management:

To create a new volume clone use the following command.

Source volume and clone volume uses the same snapshot.

We need to split the volumes.

Run the following command to split the volumes.

Data De-Duplication (SIS):

To enable the SIS to an existing volume.

Start the scan process to an existing old files in that volume.

Set the schedule for the SIS process.

Clustered Data Ontap 8.3 Administration Part-III

Clustered Data Ontap 8.3 Administration:

Block Level Management:


To list and create an iscsi server for block level management.

To create and list the new igroup (initiator group).

To create a new lun and list the lun status.

Map the lun to an existing initiator group.

To check from linux server, now we can able to see the new LUN is visible to the linux server.

You run the fdisk -l command, you can list the new disk.

To list the iscsi interface details.

Snapshot Administration:

To list and create a new snapshot for an existing volume.

After creating snapshot, just delete any file from the volume.

Using snapshot restore command, restore the file from an existing snapshot.

Once it is restored, you can able to see the old file which was deleted.

Clustered Data Ontap 8.3 Administration Part-II

Clustered Data Ontap 8.3 Administration:

Qtree Administration:

To list the qtree ... > volume qtree show.

To create a new qtree.

To list and create a new quota policy.

To set the new quota rule for an existing quota policy.

To list the CIFS server status.
> vserver cifs show.

To create a new cifs share using that existing qtree.

To access the cifs share from the windows server.

 Create a new file and list the contents using wrfile and rdfile commands.

The same file contents, we can able to list from the cifs share folder.

To set the new ACL for an existing cifs share.

You login as a user senthil, then you will have a full control.

If you login as another user kumar, the you will not able to create any new files because that user has only read.