To begin exploring, select ONTAP Essentials from the main Data Infrastructure Insights menu.

The Overview dashboard displays useful information like the number of clusters in your environment with their overall capacity and performance percentages. You will also see predictive data regarding the number of expected days until storage capacity or performance capacity runs out of space. Additionally, if any controllers in your infrastructure are running with their CPU at more than 65%--potentially putting your cluster at risk in case of failover—​ONTAP Essentials shows those as "Hot" controllers.

Informative graphs give you a look into performance over time as well as breakdowns of capacity usage. Each of these graphs or data points can be used as a starting point for exploration or investigation.

Note: A "days to full" number of "0" (zero) indicates that days to full is estimated at greater than 90 days. In other words, your systems aren't in danger of running out of space any time soon.

The Data Protection page shows the status of volumes protected by Snapshot copies or SnapMirror policies.

In the Local Protection Overview section, the charts provide the following information for volumes protected by Snapshot copies:

In the Remote Protection Overview section, the charts provide information related to volumes protected by SnapMirror policies:

The Clusters grid at the bottom of the page provides details related to the following:

The Security Dashboard gives you an instant view of your current security situation, showing charts for hardware and software volume encryption, anti-ransomware status, and cluster authentication methods. Security criteria is evaluated based on recommendations defined in the NetApp Security Hardening Guide for ONTAP 9.

Select any of the encryption or anti-ransomware counts to dive into your environment.

The ONTAP Essentials Security dashboard monitors your environment to determine cluster compliance status. Refer to the Cluster Compliance Categories to learn more. ONTAP Essentials uses the following monitors to determine compliance:

Note that if a monitor above is disabled, the cluster details will show the value as ‘Not checked’ for the corresponding security compliance attribute.

For SVMs, the Security dashboard looks at the following monitors:

In the cluster list, select View Details for each cluster to open a "slideout" panel showing you the current settings for Cluster, Storage VM, or Anti-Ransomware.

Cluster details include connection status, certificate information, and more:

Storage VM details show audit and SSH information:

Anti-Ransomware details show whether a storage VM is protected by ONTAP's Anti-Ransomware Protection or Data Infrastructure Insights Workload Security. Note that the ONTAP ARP column displays the current status of ONTAP's on-board Anti-Ransomware Protection, which is configured on the ONTAP system. Data Infrastructure Insights Workload Security can be enabled by selecting "Protect" in that column.

Here you can view the Active alerts in your environment and quickly drill down into potential problems. Select the Resolved tab to view alerts that have been resolved.

The ONTAP Essentials Infrastructure page gives you a view of cluster health and performance, using pre-built (yet further customizable) queries on all the basic ONTAP objects. Select the object type you wish to explore (cluster, storage pool, etc.) and choose whether to view health or performance information. Set filters to dive deeper into individual systems.

Infrastructure page showing cluster health:

ONTAP Essentials Networking gives you views into your FC, NVME FC, Ethernet, and iSCSI infrastructure. On these pages you can explore things like ports in your clusters and their nodes.

View and explore workloads on LUNs/Volumes, NFS or SMB Shares, or Qtrees in your environment.