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Upgrade cluster
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Network management
- Manage your network with System Manager
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  - ONTAP 9.8 and later
    - About NAS path failover for ONTAP 9.8 and later
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    - Set up NAS path failover (ONTAP 9.0-9.7 CLI)
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High availability
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SnapMirror Business Continuity
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Provision SAN storage
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- Create nested igroup
- Map igroup to multiple LUNs
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- Export policies
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- Both Windows and Linux
- Secure client access with Kerberos
- Provide client access with name services
- Large file systems with FlexGroups
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- Monitor NFS active clients
- Improve performance for multiple clients
- Enable NAS storage
Provision object storage
- Enable S3 server
- Provision buckets
- Add S3 users and groups
- Manage bucket access
- Manage storage VM access
Manage resources using quotas
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Maximize security
- Multi-factor authentication
- Control administrator access
- Encrypt stored data (software)
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- Diagnose and correct file access issues
Protect data
- Create custom data protection policies
- Configure Snapshot copies
- 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 to the cloud
Extend to the cloud
- Add a connection to the cloud
- Tier data to the cloud
- Install a FabricPool license
- Tier data to local bucket
- Create tiering object tags
- Enable inactive data reporting
- Back up data using the Cloud Backup Service
- Manage the connections to the Cloud Backup Service
View cluster performance
- Dashboard tour
- Identify hot objects
- Monitor cluster performance using System Manager
- Monitor cluster performance with Unified Manager
- Monitor cluster performance with Cloud Insights
Day-to-day administration
- Search, filter, and sort
- Enable new features
- Manage nodes
- View hardware configurations and determine problems
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- Monitor risks
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- Clone data
- Modify QoS
- Update firmware
- Manage storage
Rest API
- Rest log overview
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Notices

Initialize the ONTAP Mediator

04/29/2021 Contributors Download PDF of this page

You must initialize Mediator on one of your cluster peers before SM-BC can perform planned and automatic unplanned failover operations.

About this task

You can initialize Mediator from either cluster. When you issue the mediator add command on one cluster, Mediator is automatically added on the other cluster.

Steps

Initialize Mediator on one of the clusters:

snapmirror mediator add -mediator-address IP_Address -peer-cluster cluster_name -username user_name

Example

cluster1::> snapmirror mediator add -mediator-address 192.168.10.1 -peer-cluster cluster2 -username mediatoradmin
Notice: Enter the mediator password.

Enter the password: ******
Enter the password again: ******

Check the status of the Mediator configuration:

snapmirror mediator show

Mediator Address Peer Cluster     Connection Status Quorum Status
---------------- ---------------- ----------------- -------------
192.168.10.1     cluster-2        connected         true

-quorum-status indicates whether the SnapMirror consistency group relationships are synchronized with Mediator.