About NFSv4 file and record locking
Contributors
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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Set up, upgrade and revert ONTAP
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Cluster administration
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Cluster management with the CLI
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Volume administration
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Logical storage management with the CLI
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NAS storage management
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Configure NFS with the CLI
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Manage NFS with the CLI
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Manage SMB with the CLI
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Manage file access using SMB
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SAN storage management
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SAN management with the CLI
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Security and data encryption
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NAS auditing and security tracing
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Data protection and disaster recovery
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Data protection with the CLI
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- ONTAP docs
- Release Notes
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Introduction and concepts
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ONTAP concepts
- Overview
- ONTAP platforms
- Cluster storage
- High-availability pairs
- AutoSupport and Active IQ Digital Advisor
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Network architecture
- Client protocols
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Disks and aggregates
- Volumes, qtrees, files, and LUNs
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Storage virtualization
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Path failover
- Load balancing
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Replication
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Storage efficiency
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Security
- Application aware data management
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ONTAP and the cloud
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Set up, upgrade and revert ONTAP
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Setup ONTAP
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Upgrade ONTAP
- Overview
- Upgrade Paths
- Upgrade with Upgrade Advisor
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Upgrade without Upgrade Advisor
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What should I verify before I upgrade with or without Upgrade Advisor?
- Overview of pre-upgrade verifications
- Cluster health
- Storage health
- SVM routing configuration
- LIF failover configuration
- Status (HA, LDAP, DNS, MetroCluster networking and storage)
- All LIFs are on home ports
- Common configuration errors
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Special considerations
- How do I get and install the upgrade software image?
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Which upgrade method should I use?
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What should I do after my upgrade?
- Overview of post-upgrade verifications
- Verify your cluster
- Verify all LIFs are on home ports
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Verify special configurations
- Summary for verifications for special configurations
- Verify your network configuration
- Verify your networking and storage status
- Verify your SAN configuration
- Reconfigure KMIP server connections
- Relocate moved load-sharing mirror source volumes
- Resume SnapMirror operations
- Set the desired NT ACL permissions display level for NFS clients
- Enforce SHA-2 on administrator passwords
- Update the DQP
- Update firmware
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Revert ONTAP
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Cluster administration
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Cluster management with System Manager
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Cluster management with the CLI
- Overview
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Cluster and SVM administrators
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ONTAP management interface basics
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Access the cluster by using the CLI (cluster administrators only)
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Use the ONTAP command-line interface
- Overview
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About the different shells for CLI commands (cluster administrators only)
- Methods of navigating CLI command directories
- Rules for specifying values in the CLI
- Methods of viewing command history and reissuing commands
- Keyboard shortcuts for editing CLI commands
- Use of administrative privilege levels
- Set the privilege level in the CLI
- Set display preferences in the CLI
- Methods of using query operators
- Methods of using extended queries
- Methods of customizing show command output by using fields
- About positional parameters
- Methods of accessing ONTAP man pages
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Manage CLI sessions (cluster administrators only)
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Cluster access with ONTAP System Manager
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Use the ONTAP command-line interface
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About the different shells for CLI commands (cluster administrators only)
- Methods of navigating CLI command directories
- Rules for specifying values in the CLI
- Methods of viewing command history and reissuing commands
- Keyboard shortcuts for editing CLI commands
- Use of administrative privilege levels
- Set the privilege level in the CLI
- Set display preferences in the CLI
- Methods of using query operators
- Methods of using extended queries
- Methods of customizing show command output by using fields
- About positional parameters
- Methods of accessing ONTAP man pages
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Cluster management basics (cluster administrators only)
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Manage nodes
- Display node attributes
- Modify node attributes
- Rename a node
- Add nodes to the cluster
- Remove nodes from the cluster
- Access a node’s log, core dump, and MIB files by using a web browser
- Access the system console of a node
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Rules governing node root volumes and root aggregates
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Start or stop a node
- Manage a node by using the boot menu
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Manage a node remotely using the SP/BMC
- Overview
- About the SP
- What the Baseboard Management Controller does
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Configure the SP/BMC network
- Methods of managing SP/BMC firmware updates
- When the SP/BMC uses the network interface for firmware updates
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Access the SP/BMC
- Use online help at the SP/BMC CLI
- Commands to manage a node remotely
- About the threshold-based SP sensor readings and status values of the system sensors command output
- About the discrete SP sensor status values of the system sensors command output
- Commands for managing the SP from ONTAP
- ONTAP commands for BMC management
- BMC CLI commands
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Manage audit logging for management activities
- Manage the cluster time (cluster administrators only)
- Commands for managing the cluster time
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Manage the banner and MOTD
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Manage licenses (cluster administrators only)
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Manage jobs and schedules
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Back up and restore cluster configurations (cluster administrators only)
- Manage core dumps (cluster administrators only)
- Commands for managing core dumps
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Monitor a storage system
- Use AutoSupport and Active IQ Digital Advisor
- Manage AutoSupport with System Manager
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Manage AutoSupport with the CLI
- Overview
- When and where AutoSupport messages are sent
- How AutoSupport creates and sends event-triggered messages
- Types of AutoSupport messages and their content
- What AutoSupport subsystems are
- AutoSupport size and time budgets
- Files sent in event-triggered AutoSupport messages
- Log files sent in AutoSupport messages
- Files sent in weekly AutoSupport messages
- How AutoSupport OnDemand obtains delivery instructions from technical support
- Structure of AutoSupport messages sent by email
- AutoSupport severity types
- Requirements for using AutoSupport
- Set up AutoSupport
- Upload core dump files
- Upload performance archive files
- Get AutoSupport message descriptions
- Commands for managing AutoSupport
- Information included in the AutoSupport manifest
- AutoSupport case suppression during scheduled maintenance windows
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Troubleshoot AutoSupport
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Monitor the health of your system
- Overview
- How health monitoring works
- Ways to respond to system health alerts
- System health alert customization
- How health alerts trigger AutoSupport messages and events
- Available cluster health monitors
- Receive system health alerts automatically
- Respond to degraded system health
- Example of responding to degraded system health
- Configure discovery of cluster and management network switches
- Verify the monitoring of cluster and management network switches
- Commands for monitoring the health of your system
- Display environmental information
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Manage access to web services
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Verify the identity of remote servers using certificates
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Disk and aggregate management with the CLI
- Overview
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Aggregate creation
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Aggregate expansion
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Managing aggregates
- RAID protection levels for disks
- Determine the number of disks or disk partitions required for an aggregate
- Correct misaligned spare partitions
- Determine drive and RAID group information for an aggregate
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Relocate aggregate ownership within an HA pair
- Assign aggregates to SVMs
- Determine space usage in an aggregate
- Determine which volumes reside on an aggregate
- How you can determine and control a volume’s space usage in the aggregate
- Methods to create space in an aggregate
- Commands for managing aggregates
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Work with Flash Pool aggregates
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Flash Pool caching policies and SSD partitioning
- Determine Flash Pool candidacy and optimal cache size
- Create a Flash Pool aggregate using physical SSDs
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Create a Flash Pool aggregate using SSD storage pools
- Determine whether a Flash Pool aggregate is using an SSD storage pool
- Create an SSD storage pool
- Create a Flash Pool aggregate using SSD storage pool allocation units
- Determine the impact to cache size of adding SSDs to an SSD storage pool
- Add SSDs to an SSD storage pool
- Commands for managing SSD storage pools
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Determine whether to modify the caching policy of Flash Pool aggregates
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Managing disks
- When you need to update the Disk Qualification Package
- How hot spare disks work
- How low spare warnings can help you manage your spare disks
- Display disk and partition ownership
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Manually assign ownership of partitioned disks
- Additional root-data partitioning management options
- Configure automatic assignment of disk ownership
- Which disk autoassignment policy to use
- Remove a failed disk
- Remove ownership from a disk
- Sanitize a disk in maintenance mode
- Set up an active-passive configuration on nodes using root-data partitioning
- Set up an active-passive configuration on nodes using root-data-data partitioning
- Commands for managing disks
- Commands for displaying space usage information
- Commands for displaying information about storage shelves
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Managing RAID groups
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Mirrored and unmirrored aggregates
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FabricPool tier management with System Manager
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FabricPool tier management with the CLI
- Overview
- Benefits of storage tiers by using FabricPool
- Considerations and requirements for using FabricPool
- About FabricPool tiering policies
- FabricPool management workflow
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Configure FabricPool
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Prepare for FabricPool configuration
- Overview
- Install a FabricPool license
- Install a FabricPool license (video)
- Install a CA certificate if you use StorageGRID
- Install a CA certificate if you use ONTAP S3
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Set up an object store as the cloud tier for FabricPool
- Specify the StorageGRID configuration information
- Set up StorageGRID as the cloud tier
- Attach StorageGRID as a FabricPool cloud tier (video)
- Set up ONTAP S3 as the cloud tier
- Set up Alibaba Cloud Object Storage as the cloud tier
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AWS S3 as the cloud tier
- Set up Google Cloud Storage as the cloud tier
- Set up IBM Cloud Object Storage as the cloud tier
- Set up Azure Blob Storage for the cloud as the cloud tier
- Set up object stores for FabricPool in a MetroCluster configuration
- Attach the cloud tier to an aggregate
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Manage FabricPool
- Overview
- Determinine how much data in a volume is inactive by using inactive data reporting
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Add or move volumes to FabricPool as needed
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Object tagging using user-created custom tags
- Monitor the space utilization for FabricPool
- Manage storage tiering by modifying a volume’s tiering policy or tiering minimum cooling period
- Archive volumes with FabricPool (video)
- Use cloud migration controls to override a volume’s default tiering policy
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Promote data to the performance tier
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Manage FabricPool mirrors
- Commands for managing aggregates with FabricPool
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SVM data mobility
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High availability management
- Overview
- How hardware-assisted takeover works
- How automatic takeover and giveback works
- Automatic takeover commands
- Automatic giveback commands
- Manual takeover commands
- Manual giveback commands
- Testing takeover and giveback
- Commands for monitoring an HA pair
- Commands for enabling and disabling storage failover
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Rest API management with System Manager
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Volume administration
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Volume and LUN management with System Manager
- Overview
- Manage volumes
- Add a volume
- Add LUNs
- Expand volumes and LUNs
- Recover deleted volumes
- Save storage space
- Balance load by moving LUNs
- Balance loads by moving volumes to another tier
- Use Ansible Playbooks to add or edit volumes or LUNs
- Manage storage efficiency policies
- Manage resources using quotas
- Limit resource use
- Clone data with FlexClone
- Search, filter, and sort
- Capacity measurements
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Logical storage management with the CLI
- Overview
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Create and manage volumes
- Create a volume
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SAN volumes
- About
- Configure volume provisioning options
- Determine space usage in a volume or aggregate
- Delete Snapshot copies automatically
- Configure volumes to automatically provide more space when they are full
- Configure volumes to automatically grow and shrink their size
- Requirements for enabling both autoshrink and automatic Snapshot copy deletion
- How the autoshrink functionality interacts with Snapshot copy deletion
- Address FlexVol volume fullness and overallocation alerts
- Address aggregate fullness and overallocation alerts
- Considerations for setting fractional reserve
- Display file or inode usage
- Control and monitoring I/O performance to FlexVol volumes by using Storage QoS
- Delete a FlexVol volume
- Protection against accidental volume deletion
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Delete directories
- Commands for managing FlexVol volumes
- Commands for displaying space usage information
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Move and copy volumes
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Use FlexClone volumes to create efficient copies of your FlexVol volumes
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Use FlexClone files and FlexClone LUNs to create efficient copies of files and LUNs
- Overview
- Create a FlexClone file or FlexClone LUN
- View node capacity for creating and deleting FlexClone files and FlexClone LUNs
- View the space savings due to FlexClone files and FlexClone LUNs
- Methods to delete FlexClone files and FlexClone LUNs
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How a FlexVol volume can reclaim free space with autodelete setting
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Use qtrees to partition your FlexVol volumes
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Logical space reporting and enforcement for volumes
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Use quotas to restrict or track resource usage
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Overview of the quota process
- Quota process
- Differences among hard, soft, and threshold quotas
- About quota notifications
- Why you use quotas
- What quota rules, quota policies, and quotas are
- Quota targets and types
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Special kinds of quotas
- How quotas are applied
- Considerations for assigning quota policies
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How quotas work with users and groups
- Overview
- How you specify UNIX users for quotas
- How you specify Windows users for quotas
- How default user and group quotas create derived quotas
- How quotas are applied to the root user
- How quotas work with special Windows groups
- How quotas are applied to users with multiple IDs
- How ONTAP determines user IDs in a mixed environment
- How quotas with multiple users work
- How you link UNIX and Windows names for quotas
- How quotas work with qtrees
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How tree quotas work
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How qtree changes affect quotas
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How quotas are activated
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How you can view quota information
- Overview
- How you can use the quota report to see what quotas are in effect
- Why enforced quotas differ from configured quotas
- Use the quota report to determine which quotas limit writes to a specific file
- Commands for displaying information about quotas
- When to use the volume quota policy rule show and volume quota report commands
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Difference in space usage displayed by a quota report and a UNIX client
- Examples of quota configuration
- Set up quotas on anSVM
- Modify (or Resizing) quota limits
- Reinitialize quotas after making extensive changes
- Commands to manage quota rules and quota policies
- Commands to activate and modify quotas
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Use deduplication, data compression, and data compaction to increase storage efficiency
- Overview
- Enable deduplication on a volume
- Disable deduplication on a volume
- Manage automatic volume-level background deduplication on AFF systems
- Manage aggregate-level inline deduplication on AFF systems
- Manage aggregate-level background deduplication on AFF systems
- Temperature-sensitive storage efficiency overview
- Set storage efficiency modes
- Check volume efficiency mode
- Change volume efficiency mode
- Enable data compression on a volume
- Move between secondary compression and adaptive compression
- Disable data compression on a volume
- Manage inline data compaction for AFF systems
- Enable inline data compaction for FAS systems
- Inline storage efficiency enabled by default on AFF systems
- Enable storage efficiency visualization
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Create a volume efficiency policy to run efficiency operations
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Manage volume efficiency operations manually
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Manage volume efficiency operations using schedules
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Monitor volume efficiency operations
- Stop volume efficiency operations
- Information about removing space savings from a volume
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Rehost a volume from one SVM to another SVM
- Storage limits
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Recommended volume and file or LUN configuration combinations
- Overview
- Determine the correct volume and LUN configuration combination for your environment
- Configuration settings for space-reserved files or LUNs with thick-provisioned volumes
- Configuration settings for non-space-reserved files or LUNs with thin-provisioned volumes
- Configuration settings for space-reserved files or LUNs with semi-thick volume provisioning
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Cautions and considerations for changing file or directory capacity
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Features supported with FlexClone files and FlexClone LUNs
- Overview
- How deduplication works with FlexClone files and FlexClone LUNs
- How Snapshot copies work with FlexClone files and FlexClone LUNs
- How access control lists work with FlexClone files and FlexClone LUNs
- How quotas work with FlexClone files and FlexClone LUNs
- How FlexClone volumes work with FlexClone files and FlexClone LUNs
- How NDMP works with FlexClone files and FlexClone LUNs
- How volume SnapMirror works with FlexClone files and FlexClone LUNs
- How volume move affects FlexClone files and FlexClone LUNs
- How space reservation works with FlexClone files and FlexClone LUNs
- How an HA configuration works with FlexClone files and FlexClone LUNs
- FlexGroup volumes management with System Manager
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FlexGroup volumes management with the CLI
- Overview
- What a FlexGroup volume is
- Supported and unsupported configurations for FlexGroup volumes
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FlexGroup volume setup
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Manage FlexGroup volumes
- Monitor the space usage of a FlexGroup volume
- Increase the size of a FlexGroup volume
- Reduce the size of a FlexGroup volume
- Configure FlexGroup volumes to automatically grow and shrink their size
- Perform a fast directory delete by deleting files and directories asynchronously
- Create qtrees with FlexGroup volumes
- Use quotas for FlexGroup volumes
- Enable storage efficiency on a FlexGroup volume
- Protect FlexGroup volumes using Snapshot copies
- Move the constituents of a FlexGroup volume
- Use aggregates in FabricPool for existing FlexGroup volumes
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Data protection for FlexGroup volumes
- Workflow
- Create a SnapMirror relationship for FlexGroup volumes
- Create a SnapVault relationship for FlexGroup volumes
- Create a unified data protection relationship for FlexGroup volumes
- Create an SVM disaster recovery relationship for FlexGroup volumes
- Transition an existing FlexGroup SnapMirror relationship to SVM DR
- Convert a FlexVol volume to a FlexGroup volume within an SVM-DR relationship
- Considerations for creating SnapMirror cascade and fanout relationships for FlexGroups
- Considerations for creating a SnapVault backup relationship and a unified data protection relationship for FlexGroup volumes
- Monitor SnapMirror data transfers for FlexGroup volumes
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Manage data protection operations for FlexGroup volumes
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Convert FlexVol volumes to FlexGroup volumes
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Monitor volume usage with ONTAP File System Analytics
- FlexCache volumes management with System Manager
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FlexCache volumes management with the CLI
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Network management
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Manage your network with System Manager
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Set up NAS path failover with the CLI
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Manage your network with the CLI
- Network management overview
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Upgrade considerations
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Networking components of a cluster
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Configure network ports (cluster administrators only)
- Overview
- Combine physical ports to create interface groups
- Configure VLANs over physical ports
- Modify network port attributes
- Modify MTU setting for interface group ports
- Monitor the health of network ports
- Monitor the reachability of network ports in ONTAP 9.8 and later
- Convert 40GbE NIC ports into multiple 10GbE ports for 10GbE connectivity
- Removing a NIC from the node on ONTAP 9.7 or earlier
- Removing a NIC from the node on ONTAP 9.8 or later
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Configure IPspaces (cluster administrators only)
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Configure broadcast domains (cluster administrators only)
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ONTAP 9.8 and later
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ONTAP 9.7 and earlier
- About broadcast domains for ONTAP 9.7 and earlier
- Example of using broadcast domains
- Create a broadcast domain
- Add or remove ports from a broadcast domain
- Split broadcast domains
- Merge broadcast domains
- Change the MTU value for ports in a broadcast domain
- Display broadcast domains
- Delete a broadcast domain
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Configure failover groups and policies for LIFs
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Configure subnets (cluster administrators only)
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Configure LIFs (cluster administrators only)
- Overview
- LIF compatibility with port types
- LIF roles in ONTAP 9.5 and earlier
- LIFs and service policies
- Configure LIF service policies
- Create a LIF
- Modify a LIF
- Migrate a LIF
- Revert a LIF to its home port
- ONTAP 9.8 or later-Recover from an incorrectly configured cluster LIF
- Delete a LIF
- Configure virtual IP (VIP) LIFs
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Configure host-name resolution
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Balance network loads to optimize user traffic (cluster administrators only)
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Secure your network
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Configure QoS marking (cluster administrators only)
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Manage SNMP on the cluster (cluster administrators only)
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Manage routing in an SVM
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ONTAP port usage on a storage system
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View network information
- Overview
- Display network port information
- Display information about a VLAN (cluster administrators only)
- Display interface group information (cluster administrators only)
- Display LIF information
- Display routing information
- Display DNS host table entries (cluster administrators only)
- Display DNS domain configurations
- Display information about failover groups
- Display LIF failover targets
- Display LIFs in a load balancing zone
- Display cluster connections
- Commands for diagnosing network problems
- Display network connectivity with neighbor discovery protocols
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NAS storage management
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Manage NAS protocols with System Manager
- NAS storage overview
- VMware datastores
- Home directories
- Linux servers
- Export policies
- Windows servers
- Both Windows and Linux
- Secure client access with Kerberos
- Provide client access with name services
- Manage directories and files
- Manage host-specific users and groups
- Monitor NFS active clients
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Enable NAS storage
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Configure NFS with the CLI
- Overview
- Workflow
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Preparation
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Configure NFS access to an SVM
- Create an SVM
- Verify that the NFS protocol is enabled on the SVM
- Open the export policy of the SVM root volume
- Create an NFS server
- Create a LIF
- Enable DNS for host-name resolution
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Configure name services
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Use Kerberos with NFS for strong security
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Add storage capacity to an NFS-enabled SVM
- Where to find additional information
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How ONTAP exports differ from 7-Mode exports
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Manage NFS with the CLI
- Overview
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Understand NAS file access
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Create and manage data volumes in NAS namespaces
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Configure security styles
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Set up file access using NFS
- Overview
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Secure NFS access using export policies
- How export policies control client access to volumes or qtrees
- Default export policy for SVMs
- How export rules work
- Manage clients with an unlisted security type
- How security types determine client access levels
- Manage superuser access requests
- How ONTAP uses export policy caches
- How the access cache works
- How access cache parameters work
- Removing an export policy from a qtree
- Validating qtree IDs for qtree file operations
- Export policy restrictions and nested junctions for FlexVol volumes
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Using Kerberos with NFS for strong security
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Configure name services
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Configure name mappings
- Enable access for Windows NFS clients
- Enable the display of NFS exports on NFS clients
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Manage file access using NFS
- Enable or disable NFSv3
- Enable or disable NFSv4.0
- Enable or disable NFSv4.1
- Enable or disable pNFS
- Controlling NFS access over TCP and UDP
- Controlling NFS requests from nonreserved ports
- Handling NFS access to NTFS volumes or qtrees for unknown UNIX users
- Considerations for clients that mount NFS exports using a nonreserved port
- Performing stricter access checking for netgroups by verifying domains
- Modifying ports used for NFSv3 services
- Commands for managing NFS servers
- Troubleshooting name service issues
- Verifying name service connections
- Commands for managing name service switch entries
- Commands for managing name service cache
- Commands for managing name mappings
- Commands for managing local UNIX users
- Commands for managing local UNIX groups
- Limits for local UNIX users, groups, and group members
- Manage limits for local UNIX users and groups
- Commands for managing local netgroups
- Commands for managing NIS domain configurations
- Commands for managing LDAP client configurations
- Commands for managing LDAP configurations
- Commands for managing LDAP client schema templates
- Commands for managing NFS Kerberos interface configurations
- Commands for managing NFS Kerberos realm configurations
- Commands for managing export policies
- Commands for managing export rules
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Configure the NFS credential cache
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Manage export policy caches
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Manage file locks
- How FPolicy first-read and first-write filters work with NFS
- Modifying the NFSv4.1 server implementation ID
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Manage NFSv4 ACLs
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Manage NFSv4 file delegations
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Configure NFSv4 file and record locking
- How NFSv4 referrals work
- Enable or disable NFSv4 referrals
- Displaying NFS statistics
- Displaying DNS statistics
- Displaying NIS statistics
- Support for VMware vStorage over NFS
- Enable or disable VMware vStorage over NFS
- Enable or disable rquota support
- NFSv3 and NFSv4 performance improvement by modifying the TCP transfer size
- Modifying the NFSv3 and NFSv4 TCP maximum transfer size
- Configure the number of group IDs allowed for NFS users
- Controlling root user access to NTFS security-style data
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Appendix: Supported NFS versions and clients
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Appendix: NFS and SMB file and directory naming dependencies
- Overview
- Characters a file or directory name can use
- Case-sensitivity of file and directory names in a multiprotocol environment
- How ONTAP creates file and directory names
- How ONTAP handles multi-byte file, directory, and qtree names
- Configure character mapping for SMB file name translation on volumes
- Commands for managing character mappings for SMB file name translation
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Manage NFS over RDMA
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Configure SMB with the CLI
- Overview
- Workflow
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Preparation
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Configure SMB access to an SVM
- Overview
- Create an SVM
- Verify that the SMB protocol is enabled on the SVM
- Open the export policy of the SVM root volume
- Create a LIF
- Enable DNS for host-name resolution
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Set up an SMB server in an Active Directory domain
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Set up an SMB server in a workgroup
- Verify enabled SMB versions
- Map the SMB server on the DNS server
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Configure SMB client access to shared storage
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Manage SMB with the CLI
- Overview
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SMB server support
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Manage SMB servers
- Modify SMB servers
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Use options to customize CIFS servers
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Manage SMB server security settings
- How ONTAP handles SMB client authentication
- Guidelines for SMB server security settings in an SVM disaster recovery configuration
- Display information about CIFS server security settings
- Enable or disable required password complexity for local SMB users
- Modify the CIFS server Kerberos security settings
- Set the CIFS server minimum authentication security level
- Configure strong security for Kerberos-based communication by using AES encryption
- Enable or disable AES encryption for Kerberos-based communication
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Use SMB signing to enhance network security
- Overview
- How SMB signing policies affect communication with a CIFS server
- Performance impact of SMB signing
- Recommendations for configuring SMB signing
- Guidelines for SMB signing when multiple data LIFS are configured
- Enable or disable required SMB signing for incoming SMB traffic
- Determining whether SMB sessions are signed
- Monitor SMB signed session statistics
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Configure required SMB encryption on SMB servers for data transfers over SMB
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Secure LDAP session communication
- Configure SMB Multichannel for performance and redundancy
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Configure default Windows user to UNIX user mappings on the SMB server
- Display information about what types of users are connected over SMB sessions
- Command options to limit excessive Windows client resource consumption
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Improve client performance with traditional and lease oplocks
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Apply Group Policy Objects to SMB servers
- Overview
- Supported GPOs
- Requirements for using GPOs with your CIFS server
- Enable or disable GPO support on a SMB server
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How GPOs are updated on the SMB server
- Manually updating GPO settings on the CIFS server
- Display information about GPO configurations
- Display detailed information about restricted group GPOs
- Display information about central access policies
- Display information about central access policy rules
- Commands for managing CIFS servers computer account passwords
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Manage domain controller connections
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Use null sessions to access storage in non-Kerberos environments
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Manage NetBIOS aliases for SMB servers
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Manage miscellaneous SMB server tasks
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Use IPv6 for SMB access and SMB services
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Set up file access using SMB
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Configure security styles
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Create and manage data volumes in NAS namespaces
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Configure name mappings
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Configure multidomain name-mapping searches
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Create and configure SMB shares
- Overview
- What the default administrative shares are
- SMB share naming requirements
- Directory case-sensitivity requirements when creating shares in a multiprotocol environment
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Use SMB share properties
- Optimize SMB user access with the force-group share setting
- Create an SMB share with the force-group share setting
- View information about SMB shares using the MMC
- Commands for managing SMB shares
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Secure file access by using SMB share ACLs
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Secure file access by using file permissions
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Secure file access by using Dynamic Access Control (DAC)
- Overview
- Supported Dynamic Access Control functionality
- Considerations when using Dynamic Access Control and central access policies with CIFS servers
- Enable or disable Dynamic Access Control
- Manage ACLs that contain Dynamic Access Control ACEs when Dynamic Access Control is disabled
- Configure central access policies to secure data on CIFS servers
- Display information about Dynamic Access Control security
- Revert considerations for Dynamic Access Control
- Where to find additional information about configuring and using Dynamic Access Control and central access policies
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Secure SMB access using export policies
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Secure file access by using Storage-Level Access Guard
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Manage file access using SMB
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Use local users and groups for authentication and authorization
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How ONTAP uses local users and groups
- Local users and groups concepts
- Reasons for creating local users and local groups
- How local user authentication works
- How user access tokens are constructed
- Guidelines for using SnapMirror on SVMs that contain local groups
- What happens to local users and groups when deleting CIFS servers
- How you can use Microsoft Management Console with local users and groups
- Guidelines for reverting
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What local privileges are
- Guidelines for using BUILTIN groups and the local administrator account
- Requirements for local user passwords
- Predefined BUILTIN groups and default privileges
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Enable or disable local users and groups functionality
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Manage local user accounts
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Manage local groups
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Manage local privileges
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Configure bypass traverse checking
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Display information about file security and audit policies
- Overview
- Display information about file security on NTFS security-style volumes
- Display information about file security on mixed security-style volumes
- Display information about file security on UNIX security-style volumes
- Display information about NTFS audit policies on FlexVol volumes using the CLI
- Display information about NFSv4 audit policies on FlexVol volumes using the CLI
- Ways to display information about file security and audit policies
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Manage NTFS file security, NTFS audit policies, and Storage-Level Access Guard on SVMs using the CLI
- Overview
- Use cases for using the CLI to set file and folder security
- Limits when using the CLI to set file and folder security
- How security descriptors are used to apply file and folder security
- Guidelines for applying file-directory policies that use local users or groups on the SVM disaster recovery destination
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Configure and apply file security on NTFS files and folders using the CLI
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Configure and apply audit policies to NTFS files and folders using the CLI
- Considerations when managing security policy jobs
- Commands for managing NTFS security descriptors
- Commands for managing NTFS DACL access control entries
- Commands for managing NTFS SACL access control entries
- Commands for managing security policies
- Commands for managing security policy tasks
- Commands for managing security policy jobs
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Configure the metadata cache for SMB shares
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Manage file locks
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Monitor SMB activity
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Deploy SMB client-based services
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Use offline files to allow caching of files for offline use
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Use roaming profiles to store user profiles centrally on a SMB server associated with the SVM
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Use folder redirection to store data on a SMB server
- Access the ~snapshot directory from Windows clients using SMB 2.x
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Recover files and folders using Previous Versions
- Overview
- Requirements for using Microsoft Previous Versions
- Use the Previous Versions tab to view and manage Snapshot copy data
- Determine whether Snapshot copies are available for Previous Versions use
- Create a Snapshot configuration to enable Previous Versions access
- Guidelines for restoring directories that contain junctions
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Deploy SMB server-based services
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Manage home directories
- How ONTAP enables dynamic home directories
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Home directory shares
- Add a home directory search path
- Create a home directory configuration using the %w and %d variables
- Configure home directories using the %u variable
- Additional home directory configurations
- Commands for managing search paths
- Display information about an SMB user’s home directory path
- Manage accessibility to users' home directories
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Configure SMB client access to UNIX symbolic links
- How ONTAP enables you to provide SMB client access to UNIX symbolic links
- Limits when configuring UNIX symbolic links for SMB access
- Control automatic DFS advertisements in ONTAP with a CIFS server option
- Configure UNIX symbolic link support on SMB shares
- Create symbolic link mappings for SMB shares
- Commands for managing symbolic link mappings
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Use BranchCache to cache SMB share content at a branch office
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Requirements and guidelines
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Configure BranchCache
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Configure BranchCache-enabled SMB shares
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Manage and monitor the BranchCache configuration
- Modify BranchCache configurations
- Display information about BranchCache configurations
- Change the BranchCache server key
- Pre-computing BranchCache hashes on specified paths
- Flush hashes from the SVM BranchCache hash store
- Display BranchCache statistics
- Support for BranchCache Group Policy Objects
- Display information about BranchCache Group Policy Objects
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Disable BranchCache on SMB shares
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Disable or enable BranchCache on the SVM
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Delete the BranchCache configuration on SVMs
- What happens to BranchCache when reverting
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Improve Microsoft remote copy performance
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Improve client response time by providing SMB automatic node referrals with Auto Location
- Overview
- Requirements and guidelines for using automatic node referrals
- Support for SMB automatic node referrals
- Enable or disable SMB automatic node referrals
- Use statistics to monitor automatic node referral activity
- Monitor client-side SMB automatic node referral information using a Windows client
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Provide folder security on shares with access-based enumeration
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NFS and SMB file and directory naming dependencies
- Overview
- Characters a file or directory name can use
- Case-sensitivity of file and directory names in a multiprotocol environment
- How ONTAP creates file and directory names
- How ONTAP handles multi-byte file, directory, and qtree names
- Configure character mapping for SMB file name translation on volumes
- Commands for managing character mappings for SMB file name translation
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SMB configuration for Microsoft Hyper-V and SQL Server
- Overview
- Configure ONTAP for Microsoft Hyper-V and SQL Server over SMB solutions
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Nondisruptive operations for Hyper-V and SQL Server over SMB
- What are nondisruptive operations?
- Protocols that enable nondisruptive operations over SMB
- Key concepts about nondisruptive operations for Hyper-V and SQL Server over SMB
- How SMB 3.0 functionality supports nondisruptive operations over SMB shares
- What the Witness protocol does to enhance transparent failover
- How the Witness protocol works
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Share-based backups with Remote VSS
- How ODX copy offload is used with Hyper-V and SQL Server over SMB shares
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Configuration requirements and considerations
- ONTAP and licensing requirements
- Network and data LIF requirements
- SMB server and volume requirements for Hyper-V over SMB
- SMB server and volume requirements for SQL Server over SMB
- Continuously available share requirements and considerations for Hyper-V over SMB
- Continuously available share requirements and considerations for SQL Server over SMB
- Remote VSS considerations for Hyper-V over SMB configurations
- ODX copy offload requirements for SQL Server and Hyper-V over SMB
- Recommendations for SQL Server and Hyper-V over SMB configurations
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Plan the Hyper-V or SQL Server over SMB configuration
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Create ONTAP configurations for nondisruptive operations with Hyper-V and SQL Server over SMB
- Overview
- Verify that both Kerberos and NTLMv2 authentication are permitted (Hyper-V over SMB shares)
- Verify that domain accounts map to the default UNIX user
- Verify that the security style of the SVM root volume is set to NTFS
- Verify that required CIFS server options are configured
- Configure SMB Multichannel for performance and redundancy
- Create NTFS data volumes
- Create continuously available SMB shares
- Add the SeSecurityPrivilege privilege to the user account (for SQL Server of SMB shares)
- Configure the VSS shadow copy directory depth (for Hyper-V over SMB shares)
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Manage Hyper-V and SQL Server over SMB configurations
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Use statistics to monitor Hyper-V and SQL Server over SMB activity
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Verify that the configuration is capable of nondisruptive operations
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SAN storage management
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SAN management with System Manager
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SAN management with the CLI
- Overview
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Set up and manage LUNs for FC and iSCSI
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Set up LUNs for FC and iSCSI
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Manage LUNs for FC and iSCSi
- Increase the size of a LUN
- Decrease the size of a LUN
- Move a LUN
- Delete a LUN
- Considerations for copying LUNs
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Recommended volume and file or LUN configuration combinations
- Overview
- Determine the correct volume and LUN configuration combination for your environment
- Calculate rate of data growth for LUNs
- Configuration settings for space-reserved files or LUNs with thick-provisioned volumes
- Configuration settings for non-space-reserved files or LUNs with thin-provisioned volumes
- Configuration settings for space-reserved files or LUNs with semi-thick volume provisioning
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Selective LUN Map
- Ways to limit LUN access with port sets and igroups
- Considerations for transitioning SAN configurations
- Capabilities and restrictions of transitioned LUNs
- Examine configured and used space of a LUN
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I/O misalignments might occur on properly aligned LUNs
- Control and monitor I/O performance to LUNs using Storage QoS
- Tools available to effectively monitor your LUNs
- Ways to address issues when LUNs go offline
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Set up namespaces for NVMe
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SAN protocol management
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Manage iSCSI
- Configure your network for best performance
- Define a security policy method for an initiator
- Delete an iSCSI service for an SVM
- Get more details in iSCSI session error recoveries
- Register the SVM with an iSNS server
- Resolve iSCSI error messages on the storage system
- Troubleshoot iSCSI LUNs not visible on the host
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Manage FC
- Delete an FC service for an SVM
- Recommended MTU configurations for FCoE jumbo frames
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Manage systems with FC adapters
- Overview
- Commands for managing FC adapters
- Configure FC adapters for initiator mode
- Configure FC adapters for target mode
- Display information about an FC target adapter
- Supported port configurations for X1143A-R6 adapters
- Configure the ports
- Change the UTA2 port from CNA mode to FC mode
- Change the CNA/UTA2 target adapter optical modules
- View adapter settings
- Prevent loss of connectivity when using the X1133A-R6 adapter
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Manage NVMe
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Manage LIFs for all SAN protocols
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Data protection methods in SAN environments
- Overview
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Effect of moving or copying a LUN on Snapshot copies
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Use FlexClone LUNs to protect your data
- Overview
- Reasons for using FlexClone LUNs
- How a FlexVol volume can reclaim free space with autodelete setting
- Configure a FlexVol volume to automatically delete FlexClone files and FlexClone LUNs
- Clone LUNs from an active volume
- Create FlexClone LUNs from a Snapshot copy in a volume
- Prevent a specific FlexClone file or FlexClone LUN from being automatically deleted
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Configure and use SnapVault backups in a SAN environment
- How you can connect a host backup system to the primary storage system
- Back up a LUN through a host backup system
- Considerations for SAN configurations in a MetroCluster environment
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SAN Concepts
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About SAN host provisioning
- SAN provisioning with iSCSI
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iSCSI service management
- SAN provisioning with FC
- SAN provisioning with NVMe
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About SAN volumes
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About host-side space management
- About igroups
- Example of how igroups give LUN access
- Specify initiator WWPNs and iSCSI node names for an igroup
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Storage virtualization with VMware and Microsoft copy offload
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SAN configuration reference
- Overview
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Considerations for iSCSI configurations
- Considerations for FC-NVMe configurations
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Considerations for FC configurations
- Overview
- Ways to configure FC and FC-NVMe SAN hosts with single nodes
- Ways to configure FC & FC-NVMe SAN hosts with HA pairs
- FC switch configuration best practices
- Supported number of FC hop counts
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Manage systems with FC adapters
- Overview
- Commands for managing FC adapters
- Configure FC adapters for initiator mode
- Configure FC adapters for target mode
- Display information about an FC target adapter
- Change the FC adapter speed
- Supported FC ports
- Port configuration options for the X1143A-R6 adapter
- Prevent loss of connectivity when using the X1133A-R6 adapter
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Supported port configurations for X1143A-R6 adapters
- FC target port supported speeds
- FC Target port configuration recommendations
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Ways to Configure FCoE
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Fibre Channel and FCoE zoning
- Requirements for shared SAN configurations
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Host support for multipathing
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Configuration limits for FC, FCoE, and iSCSI configurations
- Considerations for SAN configurations in a MetroCluster environment
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S3 object storage management
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S3 configuration with System Manager
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S3 configuration with the CLI
- Overview
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S3 support in ONTAP 9
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About the S3 configuration process
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Configure S3 access to an SVM
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Add storage capacity to an S3-enabled SVM
- Storage service definitions
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Protect buckets with S3 SnapMirror
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Audit S3 events
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Security and data encryption
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Manage security with System Manager
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Manage administrator authentication and RBAC with the CLI
- Overview
- Workflow
- Configuration worksheets
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Create login accounts
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Manage access-control roles
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Manage administrator accounts
- Overview
- Associate a public key with an administrator account
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Generate and install a CA-signed server certificate
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Configure Active Directory domain controller access
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Configure LDAP or NIS server access
- Change an administrator password
- Lock and unlock an administrator account
- Manage failed login attempts
- Enforce SHA-2 on administrator account passwords
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Ransomware protection
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Antivirus configuration
- Overview
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About NetApp antivirus protection
- Vscan server installation and configuration
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Configure scanner pools
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Configure on-access scanning
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Configure on-demand scanning
- Enable virus scanning on an SVM
- Reset the status of scanned files
- View Vscan event log information
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Troubleshoot connectivity issues
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NAS auditing and security tracing
- Overview
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Audit NAS events on SVMs
- Overview
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How auditing works
- Auditing requirements and considerations
- Limitations for the size of audit records on staging files
- What the supported audit event log formats are
- View audit event logs
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SMB events that can be audited
- NFS file and directory access events that can be audited
- Plan the auditing configuration
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Create a file and directory auditing configuration on SVMs
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Configure file and folder audit policies
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Display information about audit policies applied to files and directories
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CLI change events that can be audited
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Manage auditing configurations
- Troubleshoot auditing and staging volume space issues
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Use FPolicy for file monitoring and management on SVMs
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How FPolicy works
- What the two parts of the FPolicy solution are
- What synchronous and asynchronous notifications are
- Roles that cluster components play with FPolicy implementation
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How FPolicy works with external FPolicy servers
- Overview
- How control channels are used for FPolicy communication
- How privileged data access channels are used for synchronous communication
- How FPolicy connection credentials are used with privileged data access channels
- What granting super user credentials for privileged data access means
- How FPolicy manages policy processing
- What the node-to-external FPolicy server communication process is
- How FPolicy services work across SVM namespaces
- FPolicy configuration types
- How FPolicy passthrough-read enhances usability for hierarchical storage management
- Requirements, considerations, and best practices for configuring FPolicy
- What the steps for setting up an FPolicy configuration are
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Plan the FPolicy configuration
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Plan the FPolicy external engine configuration
- Additional information about configuring FPolicy external engines to use SSL authenticated connections
- Certificates do not replicate in SVM disaster recovery relationships with a non-ID-preserve configuration
- Restrictions for cluster-scoped FPolicy external engines with MetroCluster and SVM disaster recovery configurations
- Complete the FPolicy external engine configuration worksheet
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Plan the FPolicy event configuration
- Overview
- List of supported file operation and filter combinations that FPolicy can monitor for SMB
- Supported file operation and filter combinations that FPolicy can monitor for NFSv3
- Supported file operation and filter combinations that FPolicy can monitor for NFSv4
- Complete the FPolicy event configuration worksheet
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Plan the FPolicy policy configuration
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Plan the FPolicy scope configuration
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Create the FPolicy configuration
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Modify FPolicy configurations
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Display information about FPolicy configurations
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Manage FPolicy server connections
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Use security tracing to verify or troubleshoot file and directory access
- Where to find additional information
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Manage encryption with System Manager
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Manage encryption with the CLI
- Overview
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Configure NetApp Volume Encryption
- Overview
- NetApp Volume Encryption workflow
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Configure NVE
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Encrypt volume data with NVE
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Configure NetApp hardware-based encryption
- Overview
- Hardware-based encryption workflow
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Configure external key management
- Collect network information in ONTAP 9.2 and earlier
- Install SSL certificates on the cluster
- Enable external key management in ONTAP 9.6 and later (HW-based)
- Enable external key management in ONTAP 9.5 and earlier
- Create authentication keys in ONTAP 9.6 and later
- Create authentication keys in ONTAP 9.5 and earlier
- Assign a data authentication key to a FIPS drive or SED (external key management)
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Configure onboard key management
- Assign a FIPS 140-2 authentication key to a FIPS drive
- Enable cluster-wide FIPS-compliant mode for KMIP server connections
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Manage NetApp encryption
- Unencrypting volume data
- Move an encrypted volume
- Delegate authority to run the volume move command
- Change the encryption key for a volume with the volume encryption rekey start command
- Change the encryption key for a volume with the volume move start command
- Rotate authentication keys for NetApp Storage Encryption
- Delete an encrypted volume
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Securely purge data on an encrypted volume
- Change the onboard key management passphrase
- Back up onboard key management information manually
- Restore onboard key management encryption keys
- Restore external key management encryption keys
- Replace SSL certificates
- Replace a FIPS drive or SED
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Make data on a FIPS drive or SED inaccessible
- Return a FIPS drive or SED to service when authentication keys are lost
- Return a FIPS drive or SED to unprotected mode
- Remove an external key manager connection
- Modify external key management server properties
- Transition to external key management from onboard key management
- Transition to onboard key management from external key management
- What happens when key management servers are not reachable during the boot process
- Disable encryption by default with ONTAP 9.7 and later
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Data protection and disaster recovery
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Data protection with System Manager
- Data protection overview
- Create custom data protection policies
- Configure Snapshot copies
- Recalculate reclaimable space
- Enable or disable client access to Snapshot copy directory
- Recover from Snapshot copies
- Prepare for mirroring and vaulting
- Configure mirrors and vaults
- Configure storage VM disaster recovery
- Serve data from a destination
- Resynchronize a protection relationship
- Restore a volume from an earlier Snapshot copy
- Restore to a new volume
- Reverse resynchronize a protection relationship
- Reactivate a source storage VM
- Resynchronize a destination storage VM
- Back up data to the cloud using SnapMirror
- Back up data using the Cloud Backup Service
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Cluster and SVM peering with the CLI
- Overview
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Prepare for cluster and SVM peering
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Configure intercluster LIFs
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Configure peer relationships (starting with ONTAP 9.3)
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Configure peer relationships (ONTAP 9.2 and earlier)
- Enable cluster peering encryption on an existing peer relationship
- Remove cluster peering encryption from an existing peer relationship
- Where to find additional information
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Data protection with the CLI
- Overview
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Manage local Snapshot copies
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SnapMirror volume replication
- About
- Asynchronous SnapMirror disaster recovery basics
- SnapMirror Synchronous disaster recovery basics
- About workloads supported by StrictSync and Sync policies
- Vault archiving using SnapMirror technology
- SnapMirror unified replication basics
- XDP replaces DP as the SnapMirror default
- When a destination volume grows automatically
- Fan-out and cascade data protection deployments
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SnapMirror licensing
- DPO systems feature enhancements
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Manage SnapMirror volume replication
- SnapMirror replication workflow
- Configure a replication relationship in one step
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Configure a replication relationship one step at a time
- Convert an existing DP-type relationship to XDP
- Convert the type of a SnapMirror relationship
- Convert the mode of a SnapMirror Synchronous relationship
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Serve data from a SnapMirror DR destination volume
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Restore files from a SnapMirror destination volume
- Update a replication relationship manually
- Resynchronize a replication relationship
- Delete a volume replication relationship
- Manage storage efficiency
- Use SnapMirror global throttling
- About SnapMirror SVM replication
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Manage SnapMirror SVM replication
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Manage SnapMirror root volume replication
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SnapMirror technical details
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Archive and compliance using SnapLock technology
- Overview
- What SnapLock is
- SnapLock workflow
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Configure SnapLock
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Commit files to WORM
- Commit Snapshot copies to WORM
- Mirror WORM files
- Create an audit log
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Use the privileged delete feature
- Use the Legal Hold feature
- Use the Event Based Retention (EBR) feature
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Move a SnapLock volume
- SnapLock APIs
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Consistency Groups management
- Overview
- Configure a single consistency group
- Configure a hierarchical consistency group
- Protect
- Delete
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SnapMirror Business Continuity
- Overview
- Key concepts
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Planning
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Manage SnapMirror for Business Continuity using System Manager
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Installation and setup using the ONTAP CLI
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Administration
- Create a common snapshot copy
- Perform a planned failover
- Automatic unplanned failover operations
- Basic monitoring
- Add and remove volumes in a consistency group
- Convert existing relationships to SM-BC relationships
- SM-BC upgrade and revert considerations
- Remove an SM-BC configuration
- Remove ONTAP Mediator
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Troubleshooting
- SnapMirror delete operation fails in takover state
- Failure creating a SnapMirror relationship and initializing consistency group
- Planned failover unsuccesful
- Mediator not reachable or Mediator quorum status is false
- Automatic unplanned failover not triggered on Site B
- Link between Site B and Mediator down and Site A down
- Link between Site A to Mediator Down and Site B down
- SM-BC SnapMirror delete operation fails when fence is set on destination volumes
- Volume move operation stuck when primary site is down
- SnapMirror release operation fails when unable to delete Snapshot copy
- Volume move reference Snapshot copy shows as the newest
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Manage MetroCluster sites with System Manager
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Data protection using tape backup
- Tape backup overview
- Tape backup and restore workflow
- Use cases for choosing a tape backup engine
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Manage tape drives
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About tape drives
- Qualified tape drives overview
- Format of the tape configuration file
- How the storage system qualifies a new tape drive dynamically
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Tape devices overview
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Tape aliasing
- Considerations when configuring multipath tape access
- How you add tape drives and libraries to storage systems
- What tape reservations are
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Transfer data using ndmpcopy
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NDMP for FlexVol volumes
- About NDMP for FlexVol volumes
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About NDMP modes of operation
- Considerations when using NDMP
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Environment variable
- Common NDMP tape backup topologies
- Supported NDMP authentication methods
- NDMP extensions supported by ONTAP
- NDMP restartable backup extension for a dump supported by ONTAP
- What enhanced DAR functionality is
- Scalability limits for NDMP sessions
- About NDMP for FlexGroup volumes
- About NDMP with SnapLock volumes
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Manage node-scoped NDMP mode for FlexVol volumes
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Manage SVM-scoped NDMP mode for FlexVol volumes
- Overview
- Commands for managing SVM-scoped NDMP mode
- What Cluster Aware Backup extension does
- Availability of volumes and tape devices for backup and restore on different LIF types
- What affinity information is
- NDMP server supports secure control connections in SVM-scoped mode
- NDMP data connection types
- User authentication in the SVM-scoped NDMP mode
- Generate an NDMP-specific password for NDMP users
- How tape backup and restore operations are affected during disaster recovery in MetroCluster configuration
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About dump engine for FlexVol volumes
- About
- How a dump backup works
- Types of data that the dump engine backs up
- What increment chains are
- What the blocking factor is
- When to restart a dump backup
- How a dump restore works
- Types of data that the dump engine restores
- Considerations before restoring data
- Scalability limits for dump backup and restore sessions
- Tape backup and restore support between Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode and ONTAP
- Delete restartable contexts
- How dump works on a SnapVault secondary volume
- How dump works with storage failover and ARL operations
- How dump works with volume move
- How dump works when a FlexVol volume is full
- How dump works when volume access type changes
- How dump works with SnapMirror single file or LUN restore
- How dump backup and restore operations are affected in MetroCluster configurations
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About SMTape engine for FlexVol volumes
- About
- Use Snapshot copies during SMTape backup
- SMTape capabilities
- Features not supported in SMTape
- Scalability limits for SMTape backup and restore sessions
- What tape seeding is
- How SMTape works with storage failover and ARL operations
- How SMTape works with volume move
- How SMTape works with volume rehost operations
- How NDMP backup policy are affected during ADB
- How SMTape backup and restore operations are affected in MetroCluster configurations
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Monitor tape backup and restore operations for FlexVol volumes
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Error messages for tape backup and restore of FlexVol volumes
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Backup and restore error messages
- Resource limitation: no available thread
- Tape reservation preempted
- Could not initialize media
- Maximum number of allowed dumps or restores (maximum session limit) in progress
- Media error on tape write
- Tape write failed
- Tape write failed - new tape encountered media error
- Tape write failed - new tape is broken or write protected
- Tape write failed - new tape is already at the end of media
- Tape write error
- Media error on tape read
- Tape read error
- Already at the end of tape
- Tape record size is too small. Try a larger size.
- Tape record size should be block_size1 and not block_size2
- Tape record size must be in the range between 4KB and 256KB
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NDMP error messages
- Network communication error
- Message from Read Socket: error_string
- Message from Write Dirnet: error_string
- Read Socket received EOF
- ndmpd invalid version number: version_number ``
- ndmpd session session_ID not active
- Could not obtain vol ref for Volume volume_name
- Data connection type ["NDMP4_ADDR_TCP"|"NDMP4_ADDR_TCP_IPv6"] not supported for ["IPv6"|"IPv4"] control connections
- DATA LISTEN: CAB data connection prepare precondition error
- DATA CONNECT: CAB data connection prepare precondition error
- Error:show failed: Cannot get password for user '<username>'
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Dump error messages
- Destination volume is read-only
- Destination qtree is read-only
- Dumps temporarily disabled on volume, try again
- NFS labels not recognized
- No files were created
- Restore of the file <file name> failed
- Truncation failed for src inode <inode number>…
- Unable to lock a snapshot needed by dump
- Unable to locate bitmap files
- Volume is temporarily in a transitional state
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SMTape error messages
- Chunks out of order
- Chunk format not supported
- Failed to allocate memory
- Failed to get data buffer
- Failed to find snapshot
- Failed to create snapshot
- Failed to lock snapshot
- Failed to delete snapshot
- Failed to get latest snapshot
- Failed to load new tape
- Failed to initialize tape
- Failed to initialize restore stream
- Failed to read backup image
- Image header missing or corrupted
- Internal assertion
- Invalid backup image magic number
- Invalid backup image checksum
- Invalid input tape
- Invalid volume path
- Mismatch in backup set ID
- Mismatch in backup time stamp
- Job aborted due to shutdown
- Job aborted due to Snapshot autodelete
- Tape is currently in use by other operations
- Tapes out of order
- Transfer failed (Aborted due to MetroCluster operation)
- Transfer failed (ARL initiated abort)
- Transfer failed (CFO initiated abort)
- Transfer failed (SFO initiated abort)
- Underlying aggregate under migration
- Volume is currently under migration
- Volume offline
- Volume not restricted
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NDMP configuration
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Replication between NetApp Element software and ONTAP
- Overview
- Workflow
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Enable SnapMirror in Element software
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Configure a replication relationship
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Serve data from a SnapMirror DR destination volume
- Update a replication relationship manually
- Resynchronize a replication relationship
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Event and performance monitoring
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View cluster performance with System Manager
- Monitor cluster performance using System Manager
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Performance monitoring setup with the CLI
- Overview
-
Performance monitoring
- Use Active IQ Digital Advisor to view system performance
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Performance management with the CLI
- Overview
-
Monitor performance
- Use Active IQ Digital Advisor to view system performance
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Manage performance issues
- Monitor cluster performance with Unified Manager
- Monitor cluster performance with Cloud Insights
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File System Analytics with System Manager
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