• Release notes

• Get started
  • Learn about ONTAP
    • Network architecture
    • Disks and local tiers
    • Storage virtualization
    • Path failover
    • Replication
    • Storage efficiency
    • Security
  • Set up an ONTAP cluster

• Upgrade and revert ONTAP
  • Upgrade ONTAP
    • Prepare for an ONTAP upgrade
      • Prepare to upgrade without Upgrade Advisor
        • Special considerations
          • SnapMirror
    • ONTAP upgrade methods
      • Manual upgrades
    • What to do after an ONTAP upgrade
      • Special configurations
  • Firmware, system, and security updates
  • Revert ONTAP
    • Prepare for an ONTAP revert
      • Perform ONTAP version specific pre-revert checks
        • Any ONTAP 9 version
        • ONTAP 9.18.1
        • ONTAP 9.17.1
        • ONTAP 9.16.1
        • ONTAP 9.14.1
        • ONTAP 9.12.1
        • ONTAP 9.11.1
        • ONTAP 9.6
    • 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
      • Directory to qtree conversions
    • 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
    • FlexGroup volume setup
    • Manage FlexGroup volumes
    • Data protection for FlexGroup volumes
    • Manage data protection operations for FlexGroup volumes
      • Disaster recovery for FlexGroup volumes
      • Expand FlexGroup volumes in a SnapMirror relationship
    • Convert FlexVol volumes to FlexGroup volumes
  • FlexCache volumes management
    • FlexCache write-back
    • FlexCache duality
    • Manage FlexCache volumes
    • FlexCache for hotspot remediation

• Network management
  • Get started
  • NAS path failover workflow
  • Network ports
    • Configure network ports
      • Monitor network ports
  • IPspaces
  • Broadcast domains
  • Failover groups and policies
  • Subnets (cluster administrators only)
  • Logical interfaces (LIFs)
    • LIF overview
    • Manage LIFs
  • Balance network loads
  • Host name resolution
  • Secure your network
    • Configure IPsec in-flight encryption
  • QoS marking (cluster administrators only)
  • Manage SNMP (cluster administrators only)
  • Manage routing in an SVM
  • ONTAP network information
    • View network connectivity with neighbor discovery protocols

• NAS storage management
  • Manage NAS protocols with System Manager
    • Enable NAS storage
  • Configure NFS
    • Preparation
    • Configure NFS access to an SVM
      • Configure name services
        • Configure local UNIX users and groups
        • Work with netgroups
        • Use LDAP
      • Use Kerberos with NFS for strong security
    • Add storage capacity to an NFS-enabled SVM
      • Create a volume or qtree storage container
      • Secure NFS access using export policies
    • How ONTAP exports differ from 7-Mode exports
  • Manage NFS
    • Understand NAS file access
      • Namespaces and junction points
      • How ONTAP controls access to files
      • How ONTAP handles NFS client authentication
    • Create and manage data volumes in NAS namespaces
    • Configure security styles
      • How security styles affect data access
    • Set up file access using NFS
      • Secure NFS access using export policies
      • Using Kerberos with NFS for strong security
      • Configure name services
        • Use LDAP
      • 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
    • Parallel NFS
      • Introduction
      • Plan
    • NFS and SMB file and directory naming dependencies
  • Manage NFS trunking
    • Configure a new NFS server and exports for trunking
    • Adapt existing NFS exports for 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
      • Create a volume or qtree storage container
  • Manage SMB with the CLI
    • SMB server support
    • Manage SMB servers
      • Use options to customize SMB servers
        • Manage how file security is presented to SMB clients for UNIX security-style data
      • 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 LDAP over TLS
      • 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
        • How security styles affect data access
      • 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
      • Determine whether SMB sessions are continuously available

• SAN storage management
  • SAN concepts
    • iSCSI service management
    • SAN volumes
    • SAN copy offload
  • 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
    • Configure and use SnapVault backups in a SAN environment
  • SAN configuration reference
    • iSCSI configurations
    • FC configurations
    • FCoE configurations
    • FC and FCoE zoning
    • SAN configurations in a MetroCluster environment
    • Configuration limits

• S3 object storage management
  • Learn about S3 support in ONTAP 9
  • Plan
  • Configure
    • About the S3 configuration process
    • Configure S3 access to an SVM
    • Add storage capacity to an S3-enabled SVM
    • Create or modify access policy statements
    • Enable client access to S3 object storage
  • Protect buckets with SnapMirror S3
    • Mirror and backup protection on a remote cluster
    • Mirror and backup protection on the local cluster
    • Backup protection with cloud targets
  • Protect S3 data with snapshots
  • Audit S3 events

• Authentication and access control
  • Manage administrator authentication and RBAC
    • Create login accounts
      • Enable local account access
        • Enable multifactor authentication (MFA) accounts
    • Manage access-control roles
    • Manage administrator accounts
    • Manage multi-admin verification
    • Manage dynamic authorization
  • Authentication and authorization using OAuth 2.0
    • Concepts
      • Client authorization
    • Configure and deploy
  • 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

• Security and data encryption
  • Autonomous Ransomware Protection
    • Enable ARP
  • 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
  • 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
      • Modify FPolicy configurations
      • Display information about FPolicy configurations
      • Manage FPolicy server connections
  • Verify access using security tracing
    • Perform security traces
  • Manage encryption with System Manager
  • Manage encryption with the CLI
    • Configure NetApp volume and aggregate encryption
      • Configure NVE
        • Configure external key management
      • Encrypt volume data with NVE or NAE
    • 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

• Data protection and disaster recovery
  • Cluster and SVM peering
    • Prepare for cluster and SVM peering
    • Configure intercluster LIFs
    • Configure peer relationships
  • Manage local snapshots
    • Configure custom snapshot policies
    • Manage snapshots manually
    • Manage the snapshot reserve
    • Restore files from snapshots
  • SnapMirror volume replication
    • Learn about SnapMirror volume replication
    • Configure SnapMirror volume replication
      • Configure a replication relationship one step at a time
        • Customize a SnapMirror replication policy
    • Manage SnapMirror volume replication
      • 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 a SnapMirror SVM DR destination
    • Reactivate the SnapMirror source SVM
  • Manage SnapMirror root volume replication
  • Back up to the cloud
  • Archive and compliance using SnapLock technology
    • Configure SnapLock
    • Manage WORM files
  • Consistency groups
  • SnapMirror active sync
    • Introduction
    • Plan
    • Configure
    • Manage SnapMirror active sync and protect data
    • Troubleshoot
  • ONTAP Mediator for MetroCluster and SnapMirror active sync
    • Install or upgrade
  • 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
      • What the dump and restore event log message format is
    • 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
    • Configure SVM-scoped NDMP
    • Configure node-scoped NDMP

• Event, performance, and health monitoring
  • Monitor cluster performance with System Manager
  • Monitor and manage cluster performance using the CLI
    • Perform basic infrastructure checks
      • Check protocol settings on the storage system
    • Manage workloads
      • Guarantee throughput with QoS
  • Monitor and manage cluster performance with Unified Manager
    • Monitor performance
      • Install Active IQ Unified Manager
      • Set up basic monitoring tasks
  • Audit logging
  • AutoSupport
    • Learn about AutoSupport
    • Plan
    • Configure
    • Upload files using AutoSupport
    • Troubleshoot
  • Health monitoring
  • File System Analytics
  • EMS configuration
    • Configure EMS event notifications with the CLI
    • Update deprecated EMS event mapping