A common question when provisioning storage is "which presentation protocol do I use". This article isn't really designed to deep-dive into each protocol, but rather provide an architectural overview of each delivery method to assist with designing a new storage implementation. NAS vs SAN This is the simplest…
Here's an end to end example of provisioning a new CIFS share, starting with volume creation all thr way through to sharing out the path. Things to determine first: Which cluster cluster01 Which controller cluster01-01 SVM name cifs_vsv01 volume name cifs_vol01 volume size 100GB quota size 90gb Share…
This is a brief guide on the setup steps for cluster switches for Clustered ONTAP systems. CN1610 Configuration User: admin Password: (enter password) enable hostname clusterswitch01 network protocol none serviceport protocol none serviceport ip 192.168.1.9 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.254 show serviceport show network…
Firstly - it doesn't look like Active Directory Authentication is supported (only community or USM is available) - some interesting reading on USM in RFC 3414 http://www.rfc-base.org/txt/rfc-3414.txt CLUSTER01::> security login create -username domain\svc_monitoring -application snmp -authmethod domain -role readonly -vserver CLUSTER01…
So you've hit a situation where a Fibre Channel link light has gone out and you don't know what is wrong. Alternately, perhaps you have extremely high latency on just one ESX hosts with regular storage disconnections (even though the link light looks fine) At a high level, it is…