NetApp ONTAP High Availability - Failover

 NetApp ONTAP HA

Cluster nodes are configured in high-availability (HA) pairs for fault tolerance and non-disruptive operations. If a node fails or if you need to bring a node down for routine maintenance, its partner can take over its storage and continue to serve data from it. The partner gives back storage when the node is brought back on line.

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Commvault IntelliSnap for NetApp

 Commvault IntelliSnap for NetApp

Enterprises today increasingly turn to array-based snapshots to augment or replace legacy data protection solutions that have been overwhelmed by exponential data growth. Management and automation are an integral part of being able effectively leverage this technology. Efficient and integrated use of array-based snapshots are key requirements to protecting virtualized applications.

Commvault IntelliSnap technology integrates with native storage array snapshot engines to provide consistent point-in-time recovery copies for large data sets and enterprise applications. IntelliSnap technology quiesces applications or file systems, triggers the storage array-based snapshot, and returns the system to a fully operational state within minutes.

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Commvault Disaster Recovery solution

 

Commvault Disaster Recovery

 Senthilkumar Muthusamy

The Commvault Disaster Recovery solution uses hypervisor and Commvault components on the primary site and on the secondary (destination) site.

The Commvault deployment can reside on separate infrastructure or can be co-located with the primary site. If the Commvault deployment is co-located with the primary site, configure CommCell Disaster Recovery to ensure that the Commvault deployment remains accessible if the primary site is unavailable.

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NetApp ONTAP Multi-Admin Verification

 

NetApp ONTAP Multi-Admin Verification

  Senthilkumar Muthusamy

Beginning with ONTAP 9.11.1, you can use multi-admin verification (MAV) to ensure that certain operations, such as deleting volumes or Snapshot copies, can be executed only after approvals from designated administrators. 

This prevents compromised, malicious, or inexperienced administrators from making undesirable changes or deleting data.

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NetApp ONTAP Consistency Group Configuration

 

A consistency group is a collection of volumes that are managed as a single unit. In ONTAP, consistency groups provide easy management and a protection guarantee for an application workload spanning multiple volumes.

You can use consistency groups to simplify your storage management. Imagine you have an important database spanning twenty LUNs. You could manage the LUNs on an individual basis or treat the LUNs as a solitary dataset, organizing them into a single consistency group.

Consistency groups facilitate application workload management, providing easily configured local and remote protection policies and simultaneous crash-consistent or application-consistent Snapshot copies of a collection of volumes at a point in time. Snapshot copies of a consistency groups enable an entire application workload to be restored.

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NetApp ONTAP FlexCache Configuration

 NetApp ONTAP FlexCache Configuration:

NetApp FlexCache technology accelerates data access, reduces WAN latency and lowers WAN bandwidth costs for read-intensive workloads, especially where clients need to access the same data repeatedly. When you create a FlexCache volume, you create a remote cache of an already existing (origin) volume that contains only the actively accessed data (hot data) of the origin volume.

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NetApp ONTAP 9.8 S3 - Provisioning Object Storage

 

NetApp ONTAP 9.8 software supports the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). ONTAP supports a subset of AWS S3 API actions and allows data to be represented as objects in ONTAP-based systems, including AFF, FAS, and ONTAP Select.

 

The primary purpose of S3 in ONTAP is to provide support for objects on ONTAP-based systems. The ONTAP unified storage architecture now supports files (NFS and SMB), blocks (FC and iSCSI), and objects (S3).

 

Architecture Object storage is an architecture that manages data as objects, as opposed to other storage architectures such as file or block storage. Objects are kept inside a single container (such as a bucket) and are not nested as files inside a directory inside other directories.

 

ONTAP - S3 Implementation:

1. Enable S3 Service in any data-SVM.

Requirements

 Platforms

•                • NetApp AFF storage system. S3 is supported on all AFF platforms using ONTAP 9.8+.

•                • FAS storage system. S3 is supported on all FAS platforms using ONTAP 9.8+.

•                • NetApp ONTAP Select. S3 is supported on all platforms using ONTAP Select 9.8+.

•                • Cloud Volumes ONTAP. S3 is not supported on Cloud Volumes ONTAP.

 

Data LIFs

Storage virtual machines (SVMs) hosting object store servers require data LIFs to communicate with client applications using S3. When configured for remote cluster tiering, FabricPool is the client and the object store is the server.

Cluster LIFs

When configured for local cluster tiering, a local tier (also known as a storage aggregate in the ONTAP CLI) is attached to a local bucket. FabricPool uses cluster LIFs for intracluster traffic.

Configuring S3 Server (Object Storage Server)

Creating Bucket for Object Storage tiering.

In another Cluster, create a Fabric Pool use the following Steps.

Add Cloud Tier and select the ONTAP S3

Cloud Tier Added Successfully.

In cluster2 list the object server and bucket details.

Then you can attach the local tiers to this cloud tier.