Where to find additional information

You can learn more about MetroCluster configuration and operation.

MetroCluster and miscellaneous information

Information

Subject

ONTAP 9 Documentation

  • All MetroCluster information

NetApp MetroCluster Solution Architecture and Design, TR-4705

  • A technical overview of the MetroCluster FC configuration and operation.

  • Best practices for MetroCluster FC configuration.

MetroCluster IP Solution Architecture and Design, TR-4689

  • A technical overview of the MetroCluster IP configuration and operation.

  • Best practices for MetroCluster IP configuration.

Stretch MetroCluster installation and configuration

  • Stretch MetroCluster architecture

  • Cabling the configuration

  • Configuring the FC-to-SAS bridges

  • Configuring the MetroCluster in ONTAP

MetroCluster IP installation and configuration: Differences among the ONTAP MetroCluster configurations

  • MetroCluster IP architecture

  • Cabling the configuration

  • Configuring the MetroCluster in ONTAP

MetroCluster management and disaster recovery

  • Understanding the MetroCluster configuration

  • Switchover, healing and switchback

  • Disaster recovery

Maintain the MetroCluster components

  • Guidelines for maintenance in a MetroCluster FC configuration

  • Hardware replacement or upgrade and firmware upgrade procedures for FC-to-SAS bridges and FC switches

  • Hot-adding a disk shelf in a fabric-attached or stretch MetroCluster FC configuration

  • Hot-removing a disk shelf in a fabric-attached or stretch MetroCluster FC configuration

  • Replacing hardware at a disaster site in a fabric-attached or stretch MetroCluster FC configuration

  • Expanding a two-node fabric-attached or stretch MetroCluster FC configuration to a four-node MetroCluster configuration.

  • Expanding a four-node fabric-attached or stretch MetroCluster FC configuration to an eight-node MetroCluster FC configuration.

Transition from MetroCluster FC to MetroCluster IP

MetroCluster Upgrade and Expansion Guide

  • Upgrading or refreshing a MetroCluster configuration

  • Transitioning from a MetroCluster FC configuration to a MetroCluster IP configuration

  • Expanding a MetroCluster configuration by adding additional nodes

MetroCluster Tiebreaker Software installation and configuration

  • Monitoring the MetroCluster configuration with the MetroCluster Tiebreaker software

Active IQ Digital Advisor documentation

NetApp Documentation: Product Guides and Resources

  • Monitoring the MetroCluster configuration and performance

Copy-based transition

  • Transitioning data from 7-Mode storage systems to clustered storage systems

ONTAP concepts

  • How mirrored aggregates work