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NetApp NAS solutions simplify data management and help you keep pace with growth while optimizing costs. ONTAP NAS solutions provide for nondisruptive operations, efficiency, and seamless scalability within a unified architecture. Powered by NetApp ONTAP, scale-out NAS leverages the massive ONTAP ecosystem, with a significant innovation lead and vision for aggressive future innovation.
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These technical reports expand on the ONTAP NAS storage management and ONTAP S3 storage management product documentation. |
NFS
TR-4067: NFS in ONTAP best practice and implementation guide
Learn about basic concepts, support information, configuration tips, and recommended practices for NFS in ONTAP.
TR-4962: NFSv4.2 extended attributes
Learn about enabling and using NFSv4.2 extended attributes in ONTAP 9.12.1 and later.
SMB
TR-4740: SMB 3.0 multichannel
Microsoft introduced Multichannel in the SMB 3.0 protocol with the goal of improving the SMB3 protocol by addressing the performance and reliability limitations of SMB1 and SMB2. Learn about the Multichannel feature in ONTAP, including its capabilities, recommended practices, and performance test results.
Multiprotocol
TR-4887: Multiprotocol NAS in ONTAP overview and best practices
Learn how multiprotocol NAS access works in ONTAP and the recommended practices for multiprotocol environments.
ONTAP S3
TR-4814: S3 in ONTAP best practices
Learn about recommended practices for using the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) with ONTAP software as well as capabilities and configurations for using ONTAP as an object store with native S3 applications or as a tiering destination for FabricPool.
Name services
TR-4523: DNS load balancing in ONTAP
Learn how to configure ONTAP for use with DNS load balancing methodologies including DNS in ONTAP, various configuration methods, and recommended practices.
TR-4668: Name services best practices guide
Learn about recommended practices, limits, and considerations when implementing network-attached storage (NAS) solutions such as CIFS/SMB and NFS in ONTAP.
TR-4835: How to configure LDAP in ONTAP multiprotocol NAS identity management
Learn how to configure Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) identity management in ONTAP for multiprotocol NAS.
NAS security
TR-4616: NFS Kerberos in ONTAP
Learn about NFS Kerberos in ONTAP including configuration steps with Active Directory and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) clients.