ONTAP 9 Network Management Tutorial

ONTAP 9 Network Management Tutorial:


Physical ports:

Network interface cards (NICs) and host bus adapters (HBAs) provide physical (Ethernet and Fibre Channel) connections from each node to the physical networks (management and data networks).

Virtual ports:

VLANs and interface groups (ifgrps) constitute the virtual ports. Although interface groups treat several physical ports as a single port, VLANs subdivide a physical port into multiple separate ports.

Logical interfaces:

A logical interface (LIF) is an IP address or a WWPN that is associated with a port. It is associated with attributes such as failover groups, failover rules, and firewall rules. A LIF communicates over the network through the port (physical or virtual) to which it is currently bound.

IPspaces:

An IPspace defines a distinct IP address space in which SVMs can be created for true multitenancy. A routing table is maintained for each SVM within an IPspace; therefore, no cross-SVM or cross-IPspace traffic routing occurs.

Broadcast domains:

A broadcast domain resides in an IPspace, and it contains a group of network ports, potentially from many nodes in the cluster, that belong to the same layer 2 network. The ports in the group are used in an SVM for data traffic.

Subnets:

A subnet is created within a broadcast domain, and it contains a pool of IP addresses that belong to the same layer 3 subnet. Addresses in a subnet are allocated to ports in the broadcast domain

when a LIF is created.

1. To list the physical network ports in system manager and CLI.

2. List the ipspace

3. To create a new ipspace with the name of dept2.

4. Interface group is used to provide the redundancy for physical network ports.
   
    Three modes are available.

    a. Single Mode (Active/Passive)
    b. Multi-Mode (Active/Active)
    c. Multi-Mode LACP (Link Aggregation Control Protocol)

To create an ifgrp.

5. Now add physical node ports to an interface group.

6.  To list the broadcast domain.

7. To create a new broadcast domain with an ipspace dept2.

8. Add ports to the broadcast domain.

9. To create a new subnet with ip ranges.

10. To list the ports used by the ifgrp.

11. Create a new LIF .

12. Ping with the new LIF's.

13. Now you Down the Physical port e0e.

14. Now it will use the e0f port, and both the ip's are pinging.

15. To create a new VLAN.