Module 1
The NetApp Storage Environment
Module Objectives
After this module, you should be able to: Identify the key features and functions of NetApp storage systems Describe the advantages that a NetApp storage system provides Distinguish between network-attached storage (NAS) and SAN topologies Describe NetApp Unified Storage Architecture Access the NetApp Support site to obtain software and hardware documentation
2
Terms and Acronyms That Are Used in This Course
ACL CIFS CLI Data ONTAP FC GID HBA HA NAS NFS NIS Access control list Common Internet File System Command-line interface The operating system for NetApp storage systems Fibre Channel Group ID Host bus adapter (FC) High availability (formerly active-active controller configuration) Network-attached storage Network File System Network Information Service
RLM SAN
SD SID SP Storage controller Storage system UID VTL
Remote LAN Module Storage area network
Security descriptor Secure ID Service processor Storage engines, heads, or CPU modules Controller or storage appliance User ID Virtual Tape Library (a NetApp system for disk-based backups)
Lesson 1
NetApp and the Storage Industry
The Storage Industry
Data storagean industry worth US $24 billion Centralized storage:
Reduced IT costs Increased flexibility Maximum efficiency of processes and services
Trends in the marketplace:
Data lifecycle Virtualization Storage efficiency Security Data in motion Cloud storage
5
NetApp: The Leader in Storage Industry
NetApp first in the industry to support unified storage (NAS and SAN) on one platform NetApp first in the industry with Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) support and Unified Connect NetApp first storage vendor to decouple physical storage from logical storage (flexible volumes)
NetApp: The Leader in Innovation and Quality
NetApp provides: State-of-the-art hardware solutions Award-winning OS platforms Software-management products
NetApp Hardware Solutions: FAS Storage Systems
NetApp provides the following FAS storage solutions (also called storage controllers): The FAS6200 seriesenterprise storage The FAS3200 seriesperformance storage The FAS2000 seriesdepartmental storage
FAS6280
FAS3270
FAS3200 series
FAS2000 series
FAS6200 series
NOTE: The Data ONTAP 8.1 operating system is not supported on FAS2020 or FAS2050 systems.
8
NetApp FAS Storage Systems
Old Models
FAS2040 FAS2050 FAS3140 FAS3160 FAS3170 FAS6040 FAS6080
Max New Replaces Capacity Models*
136 TB 104 TB 840 TB 1344 TB 1680 TB 1680 TB 2352 TB FAS2240 FAS3210 FAS3240 FAS3270 FAS6210 FAS6240 FAS6280
Max Capacity
408 TB 420 TB 1200 TB 1920 TB 2400 TB 3840 TB 5760 TB
64-Bit Aggregate Limit*
54 TB 50 TB 50 TB 70 TB 70 TB 100 TB 100 TB
*Based on the Data ONTAP 7-Mode operating system
9
NetApp FAS6200 Series
FAS6210 model in a singlecontroller configuration
0 e0a e0b e0c e0d e0e e0f
LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK
0a
0b
LINK LINK
0c
0d
LINK
e0a
e0b e0c e0d e0e e0f
LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK
0a
0b
LINK LINK
0c
0d
LINK
FAS6210 model in a dualcontroller configuration
3 4
e0a
e0b e0c e0d e0e e0f
LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK
0a
0b
LINK LINK
0c
0d
LINK
FAS6280 model in a singlecontroller configuration with an I/O expansion module (IOXM)
e0a
e0b e0c e0d e0e e0f
LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK
0a
0b
LINK LINK
0c
0d
LINK
13
14
15
10
16
10
Supported FAS6200 System Configurations
System
Single chassis, 1 controller, 1 empty bay
Yes No No
Single chassis, 2 controllers
Yes No No
Two chassis, 1 controller, 1 IOXM
6120 6240 6280
No Yes Yes
11
NetApp Hardware Solutions: V-Series Storage Systems
NetApp provides V-Series storage solutions for virtualization of heterogeneous storage: The V6200 Seriesenterprise storage The V3200 Seriesperformance storage
FAS6280
FAS3270
V3200 Series V6200 Series
12
NetApp Compatible Disk Shelves
NetApp provides compatible disk shelves:
DS14
MK4
FC
450F 450F 450F 450F 450F 450F 450F 450F 450F 450F 450F 450F 450F 450F
FC
Power
Fault
Loop A
Loop B
System
DS14 Mark FC DS14 Mark 2AT
DS4243
Shelf ID
DS14
ATA SAS
450GB 450GB 450GB
MK2
AT
Power
Fault
Module A
Module B
System
Shelf ID
450GB
450GB
450GB
450GB
450GB
450GB
450GB
450GB
450GB
450GB
450GB
450GB
450GB
DS4243
23
450GB
450GB
450GB
450GB
450GB
450GB
450GB
450GB
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
DS2246
DS2246
13
600GB
600GB
600GB
600GB
600GB
600GB
600GB
600GB
600GB
600GB
600GB
600GB
600GB
600GB
600GB
600GB
600GB
600GB
600GB
600GB
600GB
600GB
600GB
600GB
SSDs in a NetApp Disk Shelf
Solid-state disks (SSDs): Can provide consistently fast response times for your mission-critical applications Are supported in the highly reliable DS4243 disk shelf Use 24 x 100 GB SSDs per shelf Are available with higher-performance NetApp FAS and V-Series storage controllers, which run the Data ONTAP 8.0.1 or later system
14
NetApp Hardware Solution: Flash Cache
Eliminates up to 75% of the high-performance disk drives in a storage system Provides better response time across the I/O throughput
15
Use Cases for Flash Cache and SSDs
Intelligent caching
NetApp Flash Cache (formerly PAM II)
Persistent storage
SSDs in a NetApp DS4243 shelf
A good fit when:
The workload is random read-intensive Hot data is dynamic or unknown An administration-free approach is desired
A good fit when:
The workload is random read-intensive Consistently fast response times are required
Example workloads:
Server and desktop virtualization File services, e-mail, and databases Technical applications
Example workload
Databases for mission-critical applications
16
NetApp: The Leader in Innovation and Quality
NetApp provides: State-of-the-art hardware solutions Award-winning OS platforms Software-management products
17
NetApp OS Platforms: Data ONTAP
7-Mode
ClusterMode
Data ONTAP GX
18
The Data ONTAP Operating System
7-Mode:
7-Mode Simple transition from Data ONTAP 7G Scale-up technology that enables aggregates to be 100TB (larger in the future) Simple configuration for NAS or SAN
Cluster-Mode:
Simple transition from Mode Data ONTAP GX Scale-out technology that enables a pool of storage controllers to manage the storage cluster One NAS or SAN namespace that is shared across the cluster
Cluster-
Storage Pool
Storage Pool
19
Upgrading to Data ONTAP 8.1.x Software
Data ONTAP 7.3.x Data ONTAP GX
Conversion
Nondisruptive Upgrade (NDU) or Data in Place
Conversion
Data in Place
Data ONTAP 8.0.x 7-Mode
Conversion
Data ONTAP 8.1.x Cluster-Mode
Conversion = Disks and system are wiped clean.
20
The Data ONTAP-v Operating System
Configures Data ONTAP as a virtual machine (VM) Runs in VMware vSphere 4.1 with a Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX400 blade server
Infrastructure Blade
Data ONTAP VSA VM Services NFS CIFS SCSI Target
Server Blade
ESX
Server Blade
Vendor VM
CF Card NVRAM
WAFL RAID 0 SAS SCSI
vmdk vmdk vmdk
VMFS iSCSI Initiator
VMFS iSCSI Initiator ESX Vswitch Vswitch
iSCSI Initiator Network Stack
WAN
Async Mirror Target
Storage Blade Storage Blade Storage Blade RAID 5
vmdk vmdk vmdk vmdk
Network Backplane
NFS Client
parity
VM storage provisioned and managed by Data ONTAP software CIFS Client Volume mounted directly from Data ONTAP software (NFS, CIFS, or iSCSI) Storage managed by the Data ONTAP storage stack V-NVRAM backing store provisioned by ESX Physical disk
21
NetApp: The Leader in Innovation and Quality
NetApp provides: State-of-the-art hardware solutions Award-winning OS platforms Software-management products
22
NetApp Software-Management Products
Storage suite
Operations Manager Protection Manager Provisioning Manager File Storage Resource Manager System Manager SnapDrive for UNIX SnapDrive for Windows
Application suite:
SnapManager for Microsoft Exchange SnapManager for SharePoint SnapManager for SAP SnapManager for Oracle SnapManager for SQL Server
Server suite
Data center: SANscreen software
23
The NetApp StorageGRID Object-Based Storage Solution
Policy API Native Object Access NAS I/O
NAS Protocols Namespace
HTTP REST Protocol Metadata Tagging and Search Object-Level Data Management Location-Transparent Distributed Object Store Data ONTAP Architecture
PolicyDriven AutoManagement
24
Lesson 2
Storage Architectures
25
NAS and SAN Topology
NFS Corporate LAN CIFS
iSCSI
FCoE FC
NAS (File-Level Access) NetApp FAS System
SAN (Block-Level Access)
26
Protocols Supported by Data ONTAP
NetApp storage systems support SAN and NAS protocols simultaneously: NAS:
NFS CIFS FTP HTTP WebDAV
NFS CIFS iSCSI FCoE LAN (Ethernet)
SAN:
FC iSCSI FCoE
FC FC Network
Data ONTAP
27
Data ONTAP 7.3.x Architecture
Network
Protocols
WAFL
RAID
Storage
Clients
Physical Memory
NVRAM
Disk Array
28
Data ONTAP 8.1 7-Mode Architecture
D-Blade Client Protocol Access
Network
Protocols
WAFL
RAID
Storage
M-Host
Clients
Physical Memory
NVRAM
FreeBSD
Disk Array
29
Data ONTAP 8.1 Cluster-Mode Architecture
Node Client Access (Data) NBlade/ SCSI-Blade M-host CSM Cluster Traffic
Management
D-blade
RDB Units: Management VLDB VifMgr BCOM
Cluster Virtual Server Root Volume
vol0 root vol1
vol2
30
Data ONTAP 8.1 Features That Are Common to 7-Mode and Cluster-Mode (1 of 2)
Data ONTAP 8.1 Features (Both Modes)
Web-based Management SnapDrive for Windows SnapDrive for UNIX Storage efficiency (FlexClone*, Deduplication*, Compression**, Thin Provisioning) Multi-Protocol support (NFS,NFSv4*, CIFS,FC*,FCoE*, and iSCSI*) Server Message Block version 2 (SMB2)
Support Status
* ** * **
Secure Multi-tenancy
Flash Cache SnapMirror (asynchronous DP mirroring) * = New for Cluster-Mode ** = New for both modes
31
Data ONTAP 8.1 Features That Are Common to 7-Mode and Cluster-Mode (2 of 2)
Data ONTAP 8.1 Features (Both Modes) Support Status
Quotas (user*, group*, and qtree)
Snapshot copies
In place 32-bit to 64-bit aggregate conversion FlexVol volumes Aggregates (32-bit and 64-bit) WAFL (Write Anywhere File Layout) RAID (RAID 4 and RAID-DP)
Multipath high-availability (HA) pairs Unified storage ( SAN* and NAS) V-Series and SSD support * = New for Cluster-Mode ** = New for both modes
**
32
Some 7-Mode Features That Are Not in Cluster-Mode (1 of 2)
MetroCluster SAS disk-shelf support for MetroCluster (DS4243 and DS2246) SnapVault software SnapLock software Synchronous SnapMirror mode Virtual Storage Console (VSC), including support for SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure (SMVI)
33
Some 7-Mode Features That Are Not in Cluster-Mode (2 of 2)
DataMotion for vFiler units SyncMirror software Qtree SnapMirror (QSM) Volume SnapMirror (VSM) between 32-bit and 64-bit aggregates NetApp Storage Encryption (NSE) disks IPv6
34
Lesson 3
Support Options
35
NetApp Technical Support
Assisted-service products
SupportEdge Premium SupportEdge Standard SupportEdge Secure for Government Storage Availability Audits Rapid Deployment Services
Self-service products
NetApp Support siteformerly NOW (NetApp on the Web) AutoSupport and My AutoSupport
36
NetApp Support Site
37
Storage Efficiency in the My AutoSupport Tool
Statistics on system efficiency and effective utilization of NetApp Overview of physical and effective capacity Calculation of storageefficiency savings from:
Deduplication Snapshot technology RAID-DP technology FlexClone technology Thin provisioning
Available on the NetApp Support site
38
Module Summary
Now that you have completed this module, you should be able to: Identify the key features and functions of NetApp storage systems Describe the advantages of a NetApp storage system Distinguish between NAS and SAN topologies Describe NetApp Unified Storage Architecture Access the NetApp Support site to obtain software and hardware documentation
39
Exercise
Module 1: NetApp Storage Environment Time Estimate: 15 Minutes
40
Learning Activity Questions
Module 1: NetApp Storage Environment
41
Learning Activity: Questions
1. What are the NetApp hardware solutions? 2. What is the primary function of the WAFL file system? 3. What storage topologies are supported by NetApp and the Data ONTAP operating system? 4. How is SAN different from NAS? 5. Where can you find support for the Data ONTAP operating system?
42
