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Application provisioning settings in System Manager - ONTAP 9.7 and earlier

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You must provide details when setting up a basic or enhanced template for a database, server, or virtual desktop in ONTAP System Manager classic (available in ONTAP 9.7 and earlier). After an application is provisioned, you can edit the details and specify a resizing (increased size only). This section describes the fields in each template. Only the fields that are required for provisioning or editing the settings of the specific application are displayed.

Details for Microsoft SQL Database Applications over SAN

You enter the following information to provision Microsoft SQL Database applications over SAN or edit the settings:

  • Database Name

    Mandatory: The name of the database you are configuring; this string is used as a prefix when provisioning storage for each database.

  • Database Size

    Mandatory: The size of the database, in units of MB, GB, TB, or PB.

  • ONTAP Service Level for Database

    Mandatory: The service level for the database.

  • Log Size

    Mandatory: The size of the database log in units of MB, GB, TB, or PB.

  • ONTAP Service Level for Log

    Mandatory: The service level for the log.

  • Tempdb

    Mandatory: The size of the tempdb database in units of MB, GB, TB, or PB.

  • Export Protocol

    Mandatory: The export protocol is SAN

  • Number of Server Cores (on the SQL server)

    Indicates the number of CPU cores on the databases server in increments of 2.

  • Span HA Controller Nodes

    Specifies if storage objects should be created across a high-availability pair of nodes.

Details for provisioning a SAP HANA database

  • Active SAP HANA Nodes

    The number of active SAP HANA nodes. The maximum number of nodes is 16.

  • Memory Size per HANA Node

    The memory size of a single SAP HANA node.

  • Data Disk Size per HANA Node

    The data disk size for each node.

    Note

    If set to 0, the memory size field above is used to calculate the size of the data area.

Details for Microsoft SQL Database Applications over SMB

You enter the following information to provision Microsoft SQL Database applications over SMB or edit the settings:

  • Database Name

    Mandatory: The name of the database you are configuring; this string is used as a prefix when provisioning storage for each database.

  • Database Size

    Mandatory: The size of the database, in units of MB, GB, TB, or PB.

  • Database Service Level

    Mandatory: The service level for the database.

  • Number of Server Cores (on the SQL server)

    Indicates the number of CPU cores on the databases server in increments of 2.

  • Log Size

    Mandatory: The size of the database log in units of MB, GB, TB, or PB.

  • Log Service Level

    Mandatory: The service level for the log.

  • Provision for Tempdb

    Mandatory: Indicates whether tempdb is provisioned.

  • Export Protocol

    Mandatory: The export protocol is SMB or SAN.

    SMB can be chosen only when the cluster is licensed for CIFS, which has been configured for the SVM.

  • Grant Access to User

    Mandatory: The access level for the application.

  • Permission

    Mandatory: The permission level for the application.

Details for a SQL Server Account

You enter the following information to provide full control access to the SQL server accounts:

Note

The installation account is granted SeSecurityPrivilege.

  • SQL Server Service Account

    Mandatory: This is an existing domain account; specify as domain\user.

  • SQL Server Agent Service Account

    Optional: This is this domain account if SQL server agent service is configured, specify in the format domain\user.

Details for Oracle Database Applications

You enter the following information to provision Oracle database applications or edit the settings:

  • Database Name

    Mandatory: The name of the database you are configuring; this string is used as a prefix when provisioning storage for each database.

  • Datafile Size

    Mandatory: The size of the datafile, in units of MB, GB, TB, or PB.

  • ONTAP Service Level for Datafile

    Mandatory: The service level for the datafile.

  • Redo Log Group Size

    Mandatory: The size of the redo log group, in units of MB, GB, TB, or PB.

  • ONTAP Service Level for Redo Log Group

    Mandatory: The service level for the redo log group.

  • Archive Log Size

    Mandatory: The size of the archive log, in units of MB, GB, TB, or PB.

  • ONTAP Service Level for the Archive Log

    Mandatory: The service level for the archive group.

  • Export Protocol

    The export protocol: SAN or NFS

  • Initiators

    A comma-separated list of the initiators (WWPN or IQN) in the initiator group.

  • Grant Access to Host

    The host name to give the application access to.

Details for MongoDB Applications

You enter the following information to provision MongoDB applications or edit the settings:

  • Database Name

    Mandatory: The name of the database you are configuring; this string is used as a prefix when provisioning storage for each database.

  • Data Set Size

    Mandatory: The size of the datafile, in units of MB, GB, TB, or PB.

  • ONTAP Service Level for Data Set

    Mandatory: The service level for the datafile.

  • Replication Factor

    Mandatory: The number of replications.

  • Mapping for Primary Host

    Mandatory: The name of primary host.

  • Mapping for Replica Host 1

    Mandatory: The name of first host replica.

  • Mapping for Replica Host 2

    Mandatory: Name of second host replica.

Details for Virtual Desktop Applications

You enter the following information to provision virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI) or edit the settings:

  • Average Desktop Size (used for the SAN Virtual Desktop)

    This is used to determine the thin-provisioned size of each volume in units of MB, GB, TB, or PB.

  • Desktop Size

    This is used to determine the size of the volumes which should be provisioned in units of MB, GB, TB, or PB.

  • ONTAP Service Level for Desktops

    Mandatory: The service level for the datafile.

  • Number of Desktops

    This number is used to determine the number of volumes created.

    Note

    This is not used to provision the virtual machines.

  • Select Hypervisor

    The hypervisor used for these volumes; the hypervisor determines the correct datastore protocol. The options are VMware, Hyper-V, or XenServer/KVM.

  • Desktop Persistence

    Determines if the desktop is persistent or nonpersistent. Selecting the desktop persistence sets the default values for the volume such as Snapshot schedules and post-process deduplication policies. Inline efficiencies are enabled by default for all volumes.

    Note

    These policies can be modified manually after provisioning.

  • Datastore Prefix

    The value entered is used to generate the names of the datastores and, if applicable, the export policy name or share name.

  • Export Protocol

    The export protocol: SAN or NFS

  • Initiators

    A comma-separated list of the initiators (WWPN or IQN) in the initiator group.

  • Grant Access to Host

    The host name to give the application access to.

Initiator Details

You enter the following information to set up the initiator:

  • Initiator Group

    You can select an existing group or create a new group.

  • Initiator Group Name

    The name of the new initiator group.

  • Initiators

    A comma-separated list of the initiators (WWPN or IQN) in the initiator group.

The following fields apply only to SAP HANA provisioning:

  • Initiator OS Type

    The operating system type of the new initiator group.

  • FCP Portset

    The FCP portset that the initiator group is bound to.

Host Access Configuration

You enter the following information to configure the host access to the volumes:

  • Volume Export Configuration

    Select the export policy to apply to the volumes during creation. The options are:

    • Allow All

      This option implies that an export rule is created which permits read-write access to any clients.

    • Create Custom Policy

      This option allows you to specify a list of host IP addresses to receive read-write access.

    Note

    You can modify the volume export policy later using System Manager workflows.

  • Host IP Addresses

    This is a comma-separated list of IP addresses.

    Note

    For NFS-based systems, a new export policy is created using the datastore prefix and a rule is created in it to give access to the list of IP.

Application Details

When the application is added, you can view the configuration settings in the Overview tab of the Application Details window. Other details such as NFS or CIFS Access and Permissions are displayed depending on the type of application that was set up.

  • Type

    This is the type of general application, database, or virtual infrastructure that was created.

  • SVM

    The name of the server virtual machine that the application was created on.

  • Size

    The total size of the volume.

  • Available

    The amount of space currently available in the volume.

  • Protection

    The type of data protection configured.

You can expand the Components and Volumes panes for performance details about space used, IOPs, and latency.

Note

The used size displayed in the Components pane is different than the used size displayed in the CLI.