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.

NETAPP SNAPVAULT COMMANDS TUTORIAL

SNAP VAULT COMMANDS

TO SHOW SNAPVAULT DESTINATIONS:

Snapvault destinations (or) snapvault destinations –s <filer:path>

TO ABORT THE SNAPAULT OPERATION:

Snapvault destinations –s <filer:path> (to get the snap name)

Snapvault abort –f <destination filer: destination path> -s <volume> <snap name>

TO MODIFY SNAPVALT PARAMETERS:

Snapvault modify –k <kbs> -t <n> -o <options> -S <primary system: path> <secondary system: path> (from secondary)

TO REVERT SNAPVAULT RELATIONSHIP:

Go to secondary controller.

Snap prerevert –f

TO RELEASE SNAPVAULT RELATIONSHIP:

Snapvault release <primary path> <secondary system: path> (in primary)

Snapvault release <secondary path> <primary system: restored path> (in secondary)

TO RESTORE FROM SNAPVAULT DATA:

Snapvault restore –s <snap name> -k <n> -S <secondary system: path> <primary system: path>

TO SEE CURRENT SNAPVAULT STATUS:

Snapvault status

TO START SNAPVAULT OPERATION:

From sec storage,

Snapvault start –S <source system: path> <destination system: path>

TO STOP SNAPVAULT OPERATION:

From sec storage,

Snapvault stop –f <secondary system: path>

TO UPDATE SNAPVAULT SECONDARY CONTENTS:

From sec storage,

Snapvault update –s <snap name> <secondary system: path>

TO CREATE SNAPVAULT SNAPSHOT:

Snapvault snap create <volume name> <snap name>

TO PRESERVE A SNAPVAULT SNAPSHOT:

Snapvault snap preserve <volume name> <snap name>

TO UNPRESERVE A SNAPVAULT SNAPSHOT:

Snapvault snap unpreserve <volume name> <snap name>

TO DISPLAT CURRENT SNAPVAULT SNAPSHOT SCHEDULE:

Snapvault snap sched

TO SET SNAPVAULT SNAP SHOT SCHEDULE;

Snapvault snap sched <volume name> <snap name> <5@mon-fri@9-19>

TO UNSCHEDULE A SNAPVAULT SNAPSHOT:

Snapvault snap unsched <volume name> <snap name>

TO DO SNAPVAULT QTREE CHECK:

Snapvault check start –d <snap name> -S <primary system: path> <destination system: path>

TO ABORT SNAPVAULT QTREE CHECK:

Snapvault check abort <secondary system: path>

NETAPP SNAP MIRROR COMMANDS TUTORIAL

SNAP MIRROR COMMANDS

TO SEE CURRENT SNAP MIRROR STATUS:

Snapmirror status

TO ENABLE SNAP MIRROR TRANSFERS:

Snapmirror on

TO DISABLE SNAPMIRROR TRANSFERS:

Snapmirror off

TO LIST NVLOG FILES OF SNAP MIRROR VOLUME:

Snapmirror nvlogs <volume name>

TO DELETE NVLOG FILES OF SNAP MIRROR VOLUME:

Snapmirror nvlogs –d <volume name>

TO SEE SNAPMIRROR DESTINATIONS:

Snapmirror destinations.

TO ABORT SNAPMIRROR TRANSFERS TO SPECIFIED DESTINATIONS:

Snapmirror abort <destination system: path>

TO END DESTINATION SNAP MIRRORED STATUS AND MAKES IT WRITABLE:

Snapmirror break <destination path>

TO START INTIAL SNAP MIRROR TRANSFER:

Snapmirror initialize –S <source system: path> <destination system: path>

TO EXECUTE AN UPDATE TRANSFER:

Snapmirror migrate <source system: path> <destination system: path>

TO MAKE SNAP MIRROR DESTINATION IN IDLE STATE:

Snapmirror quiesce <destination path>

TO REMOVE THE QUIESCE FROM DESTINATION:

Snapmirror resume <destination path>

TO REMOVE SNAP MIRROR DESTINATIONS:

Snapmirror release <source path> <destination system: path>

 TO RESYNCHRONIZE THE BROKEN MIRROR WITH A SOURCE:

Snapmirror resync –S <source system: path> <destination system: path>

TO MODIFY THE THROTTLE VALUE FOR THE SNAP MIRROR TRANSFER:

Snapmirror throttle <n> <destination system: path>

TO FORCE SNAP MIRROR UPDATE OF SNAP MIRROR DESTINATIONS:

Snapmirror update –S <source system: path> <destination system: path>

TO DISPLAY THE CHECKER LOG OF DESTINATION SNAP MIRROR VOLUME:

Priv set diag

Snapmirror check logs show <volume name>

TO DELETE CHECKER LOG OF DESTINATION SNAP MIRROR VOLUME:

Priv set diag

Snapmirror check logs delete <volume name>

TO START THE CHECK OR FIX OPERATION ON SNAP MIRROR VOLUME:

Priv set diag

Snapmirror check start –d <snap name> -S <source system: path> <destination system: path>

TO ABORT THE CHECK OR FIX OPERATION ON SNAP MIRROR VOLUME:

Priv set diag

Snapmirror check abort <destination path>

TO CONVERT THE DESTINATION QTREE TO SNAP MIRROR:

Priv set diag

Snapmirror convert <destination path>

TO DO SNAPMIRROR TRACE:

Priv set diag

Snapmirror trace dump

NETAPP SNAPSHOT COMMANDS TUTORIAL

SNAPSHOT RELATED COMMANDS

TO DELETE ALL SNAPSHOT COPIES OF A VOLUME:

Snap delete –V –a <volume name>

TO FIND RATE OF CHANGE OF DATA BETWEEN SNAPSHOT COPIES IS:

Snap delta –V <volume name> <snap shot name> <snap shot name>

TO ESTIMATE AMOUNT OF SPACE FREED BY DELETING A SNAPSHOT IS

Snap reclaimable <volume name> <snap shot name>

TO LIST SNAPSHOT COPIES OF AGGREGATE:

Snap list –A

TO LIST SNAPSHOT COPIES OF A VOLUME:

Snap list –V

TO LIST SNAP SHOT COPIES OF A QTREE:

Snap list –o <qtree path>

TO CREATE A SNAPSHOT FOR AGGREGATE:

Snap create –A <aggregate name> <snap shot name>

TO CREATE A SNAPSHOT FOR A VOLUME:

Snap create –V <volume name> <snap name>

TO DELETE A AGGREGATE SNAPSHOT:

Snap delete –A <aggregate name> <snap name>

TO DELETE AN VOLUME SNAPSHOT:

Snap delete –V <volume name> <snap name>

TO RENAME A SNAPSHOT:

Snap rename –V <volume name> <old name> <new name>

TO SCHEDULE A SNAPSHOT FOR A VOLUME:

Snap sched –V <volume name> <weeks days hours@list>

TO SEE SNAPSHOT RESERVE FOR A VOLUME:

Snapshot reserve

TO SET SNAPSHOT RESERVE:

Snap reserve –V <volume name> <percent>

TO RESTORE FROM SNAPSHOT:

Snap restore –t <volume| file> -s <snap shot name> -r <restore as path> <volume name>

TO ENABLE SNAPSHOT AUTODELETE:

Snap autodelete <volume name> on

TO DISABLE SNAPSHOT AUTODELETE:

Snap autodelete <volume name> off

TO SHOW SNAPSHOT AUTODELETE OPTIONS:

Snap autodelete <volume name> show

TO SET AUTODELETE OPTIONS:

Snap autodelete <volume name> <options> <value>

TO SEE THE SNAP ID AND HOW MUCH BLOCKS THEY OWNED:

Priv set advanced

Snap status –V <volume name>