Clustered Data ONTAP 9 Administration

Clustered Data ONTAP 9 Administration

NetApp® ONTAP® 9 operating system, a major advance in enterprise data management software that combines new levels of simplicity and flexibility with powerful capabilities and efficiencies. With ONTAP 9 software, enterprises can quickly integrate the best of traditional and emerging technologies, incorporating flash, the cloud and software-defined architectures to build a Data Fabric foundation across on-premises and cloud resources.

Optimized for Flash 

ONTAP 9 software is optimized for flash with improved performance and capacity utilization. With this announcement, NetApp becomes the first all-flash array provider to offer customers 15TB solid state drives (SSDs), which are 50 percent larger than the largest hard-disk drives available today. NetApp also announced the FlashAdvantage 3-4-5 program, which includes the industry’s only guaranteed efficiency reduction of 4:1. This program makes it simple, cost effective, and low risk for customers to adopt flash.

New inline data compaction enables more data to fit in a smaller footprint and brings down the cost of flash beyond traditional compression and deduplication. This capability increases efficiency and makes NetApp all-flash systems extremely cost-effective compared to hard disk drive-based systems.

Simplicity, Flexibility and Security Across Flash, Disk and Cloud Deployments 
Users of ONTAP 9 software have three options to meet their needs. ONTAP 9 is targeted for general on-premises enterprise use, ONTAP Cloud (formerly NetApp Cloud ONTAP®) delivers enterprise-class data management in the cloud. The new ONTAP Select offers a software-only data management solution.

ONTAP 9 benefits include:

• Simplicity—Easy to set-up and manage, ONTAP 9 can be deployed and serving data for critical workloads in as few as 10 minutes. Also, with enhanced system monitoring, enterprises can use it to centrally manage performance, capacity and data protection across their IT environment.
• Flexibility—The ONTAP 9 software is the ideal platform for workload consolidation. The platform offers common data services across general purpose server hardware deployments as software defined storage (SDS) in addition to NetApp engineered systems, converged infrastructure, third-party arrays, next-to-the-cloud systems, and the cloud.
• Security—Customers can achieve up to 100 times greater security against drive failures and meet stringent data retention policies with new triple-parity RAID protection and expanded storage encryption and compliance features.

1. Download the ontap 9 cluster sim from netapp support site.

Deploy the OVA to the vmware work station and power on the simulator.

2. Select the advanced boot menu, option 4 to clear config and initialize the disk.

 3. Acknowledge it to do zero and create a new file system on disks.

4. Now it will create a new root Aggregate and creates root file system.

5. Next is cluster setup, first node use the command 'create'

6. Specify the cluster name and add the cluster base license key.

7. This process will create an cluster master and add the cluster services.

8. Now Set the cluster management port and ipaddress.

 9. Set the node management port and set the ip address.

10. Check with cluster show command.

11. Access via remote system using Putty with SSH

12. List the cluster RDB unit details.

13. List the disks.

14. Assign the disks now.

15. Access the cluster vis NetApp oncommand system manager.

16. New Ontap 9 System Manager's Dash Board.

19. Cluster performance list.

20. Network interface information.

21. Storage Details.

22. List the Aggregate details.

23. List the data protection snap shot polices and schedules.

24. Complete cluster configurations and update information.

25. Add capacity to an existing root aggregate aggr0.

26. Create a new aggregate.

27. Select a RAID Level. NetApp Ontap 9 Supports the following RAID levels.

RAID4 (Single disk Failure)

RAID DP (Dual Disk Failure)

RAID TEC (Triple Disk or Media Failure)

28. Create a new vserver(SVM).

29. Add the protocols to the SVM.

30. Create a new volume.

31. Create a new LIF with role Inter cluster communication.

Thank You.