Data ONTAP 7.3 Software Setup Guide

• Copyright information
• Trademark information
• About this guide
• Audience
• Accessing Data ONTAP man pages
• Terminology
• FilerView as an alternative to the command-line interface
• Command, keyboard, and typographic conventions
• Special messages
• Overview of the software setup process
• Software setup stages
• Default storage system configuration
• About the setup process
• Prerequisites to initial configuration
• Requirements for the administration host
• Active/active configuration requirements
• Requirements for Windows domains
  • Assigning domain administrator privileges
  • Precreating a storage system domain account
• Requirements for Active Directory authentication
  • DNS requirements for Active Directory
  • Network infrastructure requirements for Active Directory
• Time services requirements
• Switch configuration requirements for vifs
• DHCP requirements for remote access
• Gathering configuration information
• Configuration worksheet
• Required storage system information
• Virtual network interface information
• Network information
• HTTP protocol information
• DNS services information
• NIS services information
• CIFS protocol information
• Baseboard Management Controller information
• Remote LAN module information
• Setting up your storage system
• Responding to setup command prompts
• Responding to Setup Wizard prompts
• Responding to cifs setup prompts
• Verifying software setup
• Verifying network connectivity
  • Troubleshooting connections to new network interfaces
• Verifying host-name resolution
• Verifying that the storage system is available
• Verifying licensing
• Preparing NFS clients to access the storage system
  • Exporting file systems to NFS clients
• Preparing CIFS clients to access the storage system
  • Creating a storage system DNS "A" record for CIFS client access
• Verifying the configuration for active/active storage systems
• Verifying BMC connections
• Verifying RLM connections
• Where to go from here
• Time zones
• Time zones by geographical region
• GMT offset and miscellaneous time zones
• Supported languages
• Specifying the language code
• Language choices
• Troubleshooting if the system does not boot when powered on
• Troubleshooting if the FAS20xx or SA200 system does not boot
• Troubleshooting if the FAS31xx series system does not boot