Release notes
Introduction and concepts
ONTAP concepts
Network architecture
Disks and local tiers
Storage virtualization
Path failover
Replication
Storage efficiency
Security
Set up, upgrade and revert ONTAP
Set up ONTAP
Set up a cluster with the CLI
Configure All-Flash SAN Array software
Upgrade ONTAP
Prepare for an ONTAP upgrade
Prepare to upgrade without Upgrade Advisor
Special considerations
SnapMirror
ONTAP upgrade methods
What to do after an ONTAP upgrade
Firmware, system, and security updates
Revert ONTAP
Prepare for an ONTAP revert
What to do after an ONTAP revert
Cluster administration
Cluster management with System Manager
License management
Cluster management with the CLI
Cluster and SVM administrators
Access the cluster by using the CLI (cluster administrators only)
Use the ONTAP command-line interface
Cluster management (cluster administrators only)
Manage nodes
Configure the SP/BMC network
Manage nodes remotely using the SP/BMC
Manage the banner and MOTD
Back up and restore cluster configurations (cluster administrators only)
Disk and tier management
Manage local tiers
Add (create) a local tier
Manage the use of local tiers
Add capacity (disks) to a local tier
Manage disks
Disk and partition ownership
Disk sanitization
Manage RAID configurations
Manage Flash Pool local tiers
Manage Flash Pool caching policies
Create a Flash Pool local tier using SSD storage pools
FabricPool tier management
Configure FabricPool
Prepare for FabricPool configuration
Set up an object store as the cloud tier for FabricPool
Manage FabricPool
Manage volumes for FabricPool
Manage FabricPool mirrors
SVM data mobility
HA pair management
Rest API management with System Manager
Volume administration
Volume and LUN management with System Manager
Manage volumes
Logical storage management with the CLI
Create and manage volumes
SAN volumes
Move and copy volumes
Use FlexClone volumes to create efficient copies of your FlexVol volumes
Use FlexClone files and FlexClone LUNs to create efficient copies of files and LUNs
How a FlexVol volume can reclaim free space with autodelete setting
Use qtrees to partition your FlexVol volumes
Logical space reporting and enforcement for volumes
Use quotas to restrict or track resource usage
Overview of the quota process
Special kinds of quotas
How quotas work with users and groups
How tree quotas work
How quotas are activated
How you can view quota information
Difference in space usage displayed by a quota report and a UNIX client
Use deduplication, data compression, and data compaction to increase storage efficiency
Create a volume efficiency policy to run efficiency operations
Manage volume efficiency operations manually
Manage volume efficiency operations using schedules
Monitor volume efficiency operations
Rehost a volume from one SVM to another SVM
Recommended volume and file or LUN configuration combinations
Cautions and considerations for changing file or directory capacity
Features supported by FlexClone files and FlexClone LUNs
FlexGroup volumes management with the CLI
FlexGroup volume setup
Manage FlexGroup volumes
Data protection for FlexGroup volumes
Manage data protection operations for FlexGroup volumes
Convert FlexVol volumes to FlexGroup volumes
FlexCache volumes management
Network management
Get started
NAS path failover workflow (ONTAP 9.8 and later)
NAS path failover workflow (ONTAP 9.7 and earlier)
Network ports
Configure network ports
Monitor network ports
IPspaces
Broadcast domains
Broadcast domain (ONTAP 9.8 and later)
Broadcast domain (ONTAP 9.7 and earlier)
Failover groups and policies
Subnets (cluster administrators only)
Logical interfaces (LIFs)
Balance network loads
Host name resolution
Secure your network
QoS marking (cluster administrators only)
Manage SNMP (cluster administrators only)
Manage routing in an SVM
View network information
Display network connectivity with neighbor discovery protocols
NAS storage management
Manage NAS protocols with System Manager
Enable NAS storage
Configure NFS with the CLI
Preparation
Configure NFS access to an SVM
Configure name services
Use Kerberos with NFS for strong security
Add storage capacity to an NFS-enabled SVM
How ONTAP exports differ from 7-Mode exports
Manage NFS with the CLI
Understand NAS file access
Create and manage data volumes in NAS namespaces
Configure security styles
Set up file access using NFS
Secure NFS access using export policies
Using Kerberos with NFS for strong security
Configure name services
Configure name mappings
Manage file access using NFS
Configure the NFS credential cache
Manage export policy caches
Manage file locks
Manage NFSv4 ACLs
Manage NFSv4 file delegations
Configure NFSv4 file and record locking
Supported NFS versions and clients
NFS and SMB file and directory naming dependencies
Manage NFS trunking
Manage NFS over RDMA
Configure SMB with the CLI
Preparation
Configure SMB access to an SVM
Set up an SMB server in an Active Directory domain
Set up an SMB server in a workgroup
Configure SMB client access to shared storage
Manage SMB with the CLI
SMB server support
Manage SMB servers
Use options to customize SMB servers
Manage SMB server security settings
Use SMB signing to enhance network security
Configure required SMB encryption on SMB servers for data transfers over SMB
Secure LDAP session communication
Configure default Windows user to UNIX user mappings on the SMB server
Improve client performance with traditional and lease oplocks
Apply Group Policy Objects to SMB servers
How GPOs are updated on the SMB server
Manage domain controller connections
Use null sessions to access storage in non-Kerberos environments
Manage NetBIOS aliases for SMB servers
Manage miscellaneous SMB server tasks
Use IPv6 for SMB access and SMB services
Set up file access using SMB
Configure security styles
Create and manage data volumes in NAS namespaces
Configure name mappings
Configure multidomain name-mapping searches
Create and configure SMB shares
Use SMB share properties
Secure file access by using SMB share ACLs
Secure file access by using file permissions
Secure file access by using Dynamic Access Control (DAC)
Secure SMB access using export policies
Secure file access by using Storage-Level Access Guard
Manage file access using SMB
Use local users and groups for authentication and authorization
How ONTAP uses local users and groups
What local privileges are
Enable or disable local users and groups functionality
Manage local user accounts
Manage local groups
Manage local privileges
Configure bypass traverse checking
Display information about file security and audit policies
Manage NTFS file security, NTFS audit policies, and Storage-Level Access Guard on SVMs using the CLI
Configure and apply file security on NTFS files and folders using the CLI
Configure and apply audit policies to NTFS files and folders using the CLI
Configure the metadata cache for SMB shares
Manage file locks
Monitor SMB activity
Deploy SMB client-based services
Use offline files to allow caching of files for offline use
Use roaming profiles to store user profiles centrally on a SMB server associated with the SVM
Use folder redirection to store data on a SMB server
Recover files and folders using Previous Versions
Deploy SMB server-based services
Manage home directories
Home directory shares
Configure SMB client access to UNIX symbolic links
Use BranchCache to cache SMB share content at a branch office
Requirements and guidelines
Configure BranchCache
Configure BranchCache-enabled SMB shares
Manage and monitor the BranchCache configuration
Disable BranchCache on SMB shares
Disable or enable BranchCache on the SVM
Delete the BranchCache configuration on SVMs
Improve Microsoft remote copy performance
Improve client response time by providing SMB automatic node referrals with Auto Location
Provide folder security on shares with access-based enumeration
NFS and SMB file and directory naming dependencies
Provide S3 client access to NAS data
SMB configuration for Microsoft Hyper-V and SQL Server
Nondisruptive operations for Hyper-V and SQL Server over SMB
Share-based backups with Remote VSS
Configuration requirements and considerations
Plan the Hyper-V or SQL Server over SMB configuration
Create ONTAP configurations for nondisruptive operations with Hyper-V and SQL Server over SMB
Manage Hyper-V and SQL Server over SMB configurations
Use statistics to monitor Hyper-V and SQL Server over SMB activity
Verify that the configuration is capable of nondisruptive operations
SAN storage management
SAN concepts
SAN administration
SAN provisioning
NVMe provisioning
Manage LUNs
Manage igroups and portsets
Manage iSCSI protocol
Manage FC protocol
Manage NVMe protocol
Manage systems with FC adapters
Manage LIFs for all SAN protocols
Recommended volume and file or LUN configuration combinations
SAN data protection
Effect of moving or copying a LUN on Snapshot copies
Use FlexClone LUNs to protect your data
Configure and use SnapVault backups in a SAN environment
SAN configuration reference
S3 object storage management
Learn about S3 support in ONTAP 9
Plan
Configure
Protect buckets with SnapMirror S3
Protect S3 data with snapshots
Audit S3 events
Authentication and access control
Manage administrator authentication and RBAC
Create login accounts
Manage access-control roles
Manage administrator accounts
Manage multi-admin verification
Manage dynamic authorization
Authentication and authorization using OAuth 2.0
Authentication and authorization using WebAuthn MFA
Manage web services
Verify the identity of remote servers using certificates
Mutually authenticate the cluster and a KMIP server
Attribute-based access control
Security and data encryption
About NetApp ransomware protection
Autonomous Ransomware Protection
Virus protection with Vscan
About NetApp antivirus protection
Vscan server installation and configuration
Configure scanner pools
Configure on-access scanning
Configure on-demand scanning
Monitor and troubleshoot connectivity issues
ONTAP hardening guidelines
Local storage administrator accounts
Audit NAS events on SVMs
How auditing works
SMB events that can be audited
Create a file and directory auditing configuration on SVMs
Configure file and folder audit policies
Display information about audit policies applied to files and directories
CLI change events that can be audited
Manage auditing configurations
Use FPolicy for file monitoring and management on SVMs
Understand FPolicy
Plan the FPolicy configuration
Plan the FPolicy external engine configuration
Plan the FPolicy event configuration
Plan the FPolicy policy configuration
Plan the FPolicy scope configuration
Create the FPolicy configuration
Manage FPolicy configurations
Verify access using security tracing
Manage encryption with System Manager
Manage encryption with the CLI
Configure NetApp Volume Encryption
Configure NVE
Encrypt volume data with NVE
Configure NetApp hardware-based encryption
Configure external key management
Configure onboard key management
Manage NetApp encryption
Securely purge data on an encrypted volume
Make data on a FIPS drive or SED inaccessible
Enable Zero Trust model
Data protection and disaster recovery
Cluster and SVM peering
Manage local snapshots
SnapMirror volume replication
SnapMirror licensing
Manage SnapMirror volume replication
Configure a replication relationship one step at a time
Serve data from a SnapMirror DR destination volume
Restore files from a SnapMirror destination volume
Manage SnapMirror SVM replication
Replicate SVM configurations
Serve data from an SVM DR destination
Reactivate the source SVM
Manage SnapMirror root volume replication
Back up to the cloud
SnapMirror technical details
Archive and compliance using SnapLock technology
Consistency groups
SnapMirror active sync
Introduction
Plan
Configure
Manage SnapMirror active sync and protect data
Troubleshoot
Mediator service for MetroCluster and SnapMirror active sync
Data protection using tape backup
Manage tape drives
About tape drives
Tape devices overview
Tape aliasing
Transfer data between storage systems
NDMP for FlexVol volumes
About NDMP modes of operation
Environment variable
Manage node-scoped NDMP mode for FlexVol volumes
Manage SVM-scoped NDMP mode for FlexVol volumes
About dump engine for FlexVol volumes
About SMTape engine for FlexVol volumes
Monitor tape backup and restore operations for FlexVol volumes
Error messages for tape backup and restore of FlexVol volumes
Backup and restore error messages
NDMP error messages
Dump error messages
SMTape error messages
NDMP configuration
Event, performance, and health monitoring
Monitor cluster performance with System Manager
Monitor and manage cluster performance using the CLI
Monitor performance
Manage performance issues
Perform basic infrastructure checks
Manage workloads
Audit logging
AutoSupport
Learn about AutoSupport
Plan
Configure
Upload files using AutoSupport
Troubleshoot
Health monitoring
File System Analytics
EMS configuration
Suggest changes
For NFSv4 clients, ONTAP supports the NFSv4 file-locking mechanism, maintaining the state of all file locks under a lease-based model.
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