- ONTAP docs
- Release Notes
- System Manager integration with BlueXP
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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
- FabricPool
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Set up, upgrade and revert ONTAP
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Set up ONTAP
- Get started
- Set up a cluster with System Manager
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Set up a cluster with the CLI
- Create the cluster on the first node
- Join remaining nodes to the cluster
- Convert management LIFs from IPv4 to IPv6
- Check your cluster with Active IQ Config Advisor
- Synchronize the system time across the cluster
- Commands for managing symmetric authentication on NTP servers
- Additional system configuration tasks to complete
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Configure All-Flash SAN Array software
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Upgrade ONTAP
- Overview
- When to upgrade ONTAP
- Execute automated pre-upgrade checks before a planned upgrade
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Prepare for an ONTAP upgrade
- Preparation summary
- Create an upgrade plan
- Choose your target ONTAP release
- Confirm configuration support
- Identify common configuration errors
- Upgrade paths
- Verify LIF failover configuration
- Verify SVM routing configuration
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Special considerations
- Reboot SP or BMC
- Download the ONTAP software image
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ONTAP upgrade methods
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What to do after an ONTAP upgrade
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Firmware and system updates
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Revert ONTAP
- Overview
- Do I need technical support?
- What are the revert paths?
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What should I read before I revert?
- What should I verify before I revert?
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What else should I check before I revert?
- How do I get and install the revert software image?
- Revert my cluster
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What should I do after reverting my cluster?
- Verify cluster and storage health
- Enable automatic switchover for MetroCluster configurations
- Enable and revert LIFs to home ports
- Enable Snapshot copy policies
- Verify client access (SMB and NFS)
- Verify IPv6 firewall entries
- Revert password hash function
- Maually update SP firmware
- Verify user accounts that can access the Service Processor
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Cluster administration
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Cluster management with System Manager
- Administration overview
- Use System Manager to access a Cluster
- Enable new features
- Download a cluster configuration
- Assign tags to a cluster
- View and submit support cases
- Manage maximum capacity limit of a storage VM
- Monitor capacity with System Manager
- Manage AutoSupport with System Manager
- Monitor risks with Active IQ Digital Advisor
- Gain insights to help optimize your system
- View hardware configurations and determine problems
- Manage nodes
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Cluster management with the CLI
- Overview
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Cluster and SVM administrators
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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
- 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 management (cluster administrators only)
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Manage node attributes
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Manage nodes
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Configure the SP/BMC network
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Manage nodes remotely using the SP/BMC
- Overview
- About the Service Processor (SP)
- About the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC)
- Methods of managing SP/BMC firmware updates
- When the SP/BMC uses the network interface for firmware updates
- Accounts that can access the SP
- Access the SP/BMC from an administration host
- Access the SP/BMC from the system console
- Relationship among the SP CLI, SP console, and system console sessions
- Manage the IP addresses that can access the SP
- 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
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Manage the cluster time (cluster administrators only)
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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)
- What configuration backup files are
- How the node and cluster configurations are backed up automatically
- Commands for managing configuration backup schedules
- Commands for managing configuration backup files
- Find a configuration backup file to use for recovering a node
- Restore the node configuration using a configuration backup file
- Find a configuration to use for recovering a cluster
- Restore a cluster configuration from an existing configuration
- Synchronize a node with the cluster
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Manage core dumps (cluster administrators only)
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Monitor a storage system
- Overview
- Use AutoSupport and Active IQ Digital Advisor
- 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
- Troubleshoot AutoSupport when messages are not received
- Troubleshoot AutoSupport message delivery over HTTP or HTTPS
- Troubleshoot AutoSupport message delivery over SMTP
- Troubleshoot the AutoSupport subsystem
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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 web services
- Overview
- Manage access to web services
- Manage the web protocol engine
- Commands for managing the web protocol engine
- Configure SAML authentication for web services
- Configure access to web services
- Commands for managing web services
- Commands for managing mount points on the nodes
- Manage SSL
- Commands for managing SSL
- Troubleshoot web service access problems
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Verify the identity of remote servers using certificates
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Mutually authenticating the cluster and a KMIP server
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Disk and tier (aggregate) management
- Overview
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Manage local tiers (aggregates)
- Overview
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Prepare to add a local tier (aggregate)
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Add (create) a local tier (aggregate)
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Manage the use of local tiers (aggregates)
- Overview
- Rename a local tier (aggregate)
- Set media cost of a local tier (aggregate)
- Determine drive and RAID group information for a local tier (aggregate)
- Assign local tiers (aggregates) to storage VMs (SVMs)
- Determine which volumes reside on a local tier (aggregate)
- Determine and control a volume’s space usage in a local tier (aggregate)
- Determine space usage in a local tier (aggregate)
- Relocate local tier (aggregate) ownership within an HA pair
- Delete a local tier (aggregate)
- Commands for relocating local tiers (aggregates)
- Commands for managing local tiers (aggregates)
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Add capacity (disks) to a local tier (aggregate)
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Manage disks
- Overview
- How hot spare disks work
- How low spare warnings can help you manage your spare disks
- Additional root-data partitioning management options
- When you need to update the Disk Qualification Package
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Disk and partition ownership
- Overview
- About auto-assignment of disk ownership
- Display disk and partition ownership
- Change auto-assignment settings for disk ownership
- Manually assign ownership of disks
- Manually assign ownership of partitioned disks
- 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
- Remove ownership from a disk
- Remove a failed disk
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Disk sanitization
- Commands for managing disks
- Commands for displaying space usage information
- Commands for displaying information about storage shelves
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Manage RAID configurations
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Manage Flash Pool local tiers (aggregates)
- Overview
- Flash Pool local tier (aggregate) caching policies
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Manage Flash Pool caching policies
- Flash Pool SSD partitioning for Flash Pool local tiers (aggregates) using storage pools
- Flash Pool candidacy and optimal cache size
- Create a Flash Pool local tier (aggregate) using physical SSDs
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Create a Flash Pool local tier (aggregate) using SSD storage pools
- Overview
- Determine whether a Flash Pool local tier (aggregate) is using an SSD storage pool
- Add cache by adding an SSD storage pool
- Create a Flash Pool 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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FabricPool tier management
- 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
- Add a connection to the cloud
- Install a FabricPool license
- 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
- Overview
- Set up StorageGRID as the cloud tier
- Set up ONTAP S3 as the cloud tier
- Set up Alibaba Cloud Object Storage as the cloud tier
- Set up Amazon 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
- Test object store throughput performance before attaching to a local tier
- Attach the cloud tier to an aggregate
- Tier data to local bucket
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Manage FabricPool
- Overview
- Determine how much data in a volume is inactive by using inactive data reporting
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Manage volumes for FabricPool
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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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HA pair 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
- Halt or reboot a node without initiating takeover
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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
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Manage volumes
- Manage LUNs
- Expand volumes and LUNs
- 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
- Enable large volume and large file support
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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 an SVM
- 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
- Storage efficiency behavior with volume move and SnapMirror
- Set storage efficiency modes
- Change volume inactive data compression threshold
- Check volume efficiency mode
- Change volume efficiency mode
- View volume footprint savings with or without temperature-sensitive storage efficiency
- 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
- Provision NAS storage for large file systems using FlexGroup volumes
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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
- Delete directories rapidly on a cluster
- Manage client rights to delete directories rapidly
- 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
- Rebalance 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
- Improve performance for multiple clients with FlexCache
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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
- About broadcast domains for ONTAP 9.8 and later
- Example of using broadcast domains
- Add 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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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
- Manage NFSv4 storepool limits
- 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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Supported NFS versions and clients
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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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Manage NFS trunking
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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 SMB 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
- Overview
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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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Provide S3 client access to NAS data
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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 concepts
- 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 administration
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SAN provisioning
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NVMe provisioning
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Manage LUNs
- Edit LUN QoS Policy
- Convert a LUN into a namespace
- Take a LUN offline
- Resize a LUN
- Move a LUN
- Delete a LUN
- What to know before copying LUNs
- Examine configured and used space of a LUN
- Control and monitor I/O performance to LUNs using Storage QoS
- Tools available to effectively monitor your LUNs
- Capabilities and restrictions of transitioned LUNs
- I/O misalignments on properly aligned LUNs
- Ways to address issues when LUNs go offline
- Troubleshoot iSCSI LUNs not visible on the host
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Manage igroups and portsets
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Manage iSCSI protocol
- Configure your network for best performance
- Configure an SVM for iSCSI
- 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
- iSCSI LIF failover for ASA platforms
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Manage FC protocol
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Manage NVMe protocol
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Manage systems with FC adapters
- Overview
- Commands for managing FC adapters
- Configure FC adapters
- View adapter settings
- Change the UTA2 port from CNA mode to FC mode
- Change the CNA/UTA2 target adapter optical modules
- Supported port configurations for X1143A-R6 adapters
- Configure X1143A-R6 adapter ports
- Prevent loss of connectivity when using the X1133A-R6 adapter
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Manage LIFs for all SAN protocols
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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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SAN data protection
- 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
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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
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Manage systems with FC adapters
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Manage X1143A-R6 adapters
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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
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Considerations for SAN configurations in a MetroCluster environment
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S3 object storage management
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S3 configuration
- 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
- Create a bucket
- Create a bucket on a mirrored or unmirrored aggregate in a MetroCluster configuration
- Create a bucket lifecycle rule
- Create an S3 user
- Create or modify S3 groups
- Regenerate keys and modify their retention period
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Create or modify access policy statements
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Enable client access to S3 object storage
- 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