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- Decide whether to use the ONTAP CLI for cluster setup
- Set up a cluster with the ONTAP CLI
- Configure All SAN Array Software
Upgrade cluster
- Overview
- Upgrade Paths
- Upgrade with Upgrade Advisor
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- What should I verify before I upgrade with or without Upgrade Advisor?
- How do I get and install the upgrade software image?
- Which upgrade method should I use?
- What should I do after my upgrade?
Revert cluster
- Overview
- Do I need technical support?
- What are the revert paths?
- What should I read before I revert?
  - Pre-reversion resources
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- What should I verify before I revert?
- What else should I check before I revert?
- How do I get and install the revert software image?
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- What should I do after reverting my cluster?
Network management
- Manage your network with System Manager
  - View and manage your network
  - Download network data for reporting
- Set up NAS path failover with the CLI
  - ONTAP 9.8 and later
    - About NAS path failover for ONTAP 9.8 and later
    - Workflow NAS path failover
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    - Set up NAS path failover (ONTAP 9.0-9.7 CLI)
    - Workflow NAS path failover
- Manage your network with the CLI
High availability
- How hardware-assisted takeover works
- How automatic takeover and giveback works
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- Testing takeover and giveback
- Commands for monitoring an HA pair
- Commands for enabling and disabling storage failover
SnapMirror Business Continuity
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- Installation and setup using the ONTAP CLI
- Administration
- Troubleshooting
Provision SAN storage
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- Linux servers
- Windows servers
- Create nested igroup
- Map igroup to multiple LUNs
- SnapMirror Business Continuity overview
Provision NVMe storage
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Provision NAS storage
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- Home directories
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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
- Manage directories and files
- Monitor volume usage with ONTAP File System Analytics
- 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
- Limit resource use
Maximize security
- Multi-factor authentication
- Control administrator access
- Encrypt stored data (software)
- Encrypt stored data (hardware)
- 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
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- 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
- View and submit support cases
- Monitor risks
- Manage MetroCluster sites
- Clone data
- Modify QoS
- Update firmware
- Manage storage
Rest API
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- Access the REST API log
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Notices

Create custom data protection policies

04/01/2021 Contributors Download PDF of this page

You can create custom data protection policies in System Manager when the existing default protection policies are not appropriate for your needs.

Create custom protection policies on both the source and destination cluster.

Steps

Click Protection > Local Policy Settings.
Under Protection Policies, click .
In the Protection Policies pane, click .
Complete the required fields.
Click Save.
Repeat these steps on the other cluster.