Data ONTAP 7.3 MultiStore Management Guide
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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
What MultiStore is
Benefits of using MultiStore
MultiStore for consolidating servers
MultiStore for service providers and enterprises
MultiStore for disaster recovery and data migration
What the host storage system is
What the default vFiler unit is
MultiStore limits
Host storage system's access to vFiler unit data
Types of system administration tasks
Host storage system tasks
MultiStore management tasks
Tasks related to using Data ONTAP features on vFiler units
MultiStore management
How to create a vFiler unit
Enabling the MultiStore license
Disabling the MultiStore license
Storage guidelines
Language guidelines
Quota guidelines
Active/active considerations
SAN considerations
The vFiler commands
Ensuring that the network interface is ready
Assigning and configuring vFiler unit resources
Manually setting up a vFiler unit
How to manage vFiler unit storage from the storage system
Effects of adding, removing, and moving vFiler unit resources
Adding resources to a vFiler unit
Requirements for moving and removing resources
Removing resources from a vFiler unit
Moving resources between vFiler units
Destroying a vFiler unit
Restoring a vFiler unit
Default vFiler unit limits
Maximum vFiler units allowed
Viewing the current vFiler unit limit
Increasing the vFiler unit limit
Decreasing the vFiler unit limit
Renaming a vFiler unit
Stopping a vFiler unit
Starting a vFiler unit
Allowing a protocol for a vFiler unit
Disallowing a protocol for a vFiler unit
Displaying vFiler unit status
Viewing commands that can be executed from a vFiler unit
Executing commands from a vFiler unit
Executing commands for a vFiler unit from the host storage system
Executing commands for a vFiler unit using RSH
RSH commands
Executing commands for a vFiler unit using SSH
SSH commands
Effects of storage system reboot on a vFiler unit
Volumes and qtrees on a vFiler unit
Effects of taking a vFiler unit volume offline
Changes required after volumes are renamed
Who can change qtree security styles and oplock settings
Differences in qtree command output
Viewing all qtrees and the owner vFiler units
Backups for vFiler units
NDMP support
Available NDMP options
ndmpcopy support
NDMP command support
NDMP password support
LUNs on a vFiler unit
What is supported on a vFiler unit
iSCSI LUNs and igroups on a vFiler unit
The iSCSI service on a vFiler unit
Networking considerations
Effects of the routed daemon
Command for changing the routing table in the default IPspace
The /etc/dgateways file
IPsec on a vFiler unit
SnapMirror on the host storage system
Considerations for using the snapmirror command
Determining the status of SnapMirror relationships
Deduplication support on vFiler units
Benefits of deduplication support on vFiler units
Running deduplication commands on a vFiler unit
SnapVault on the host storage system
Where to enter SnapVault commands
Considerations for using the snapvault command
Determining the status of SnapVault relationships
SNMP used with a vFiler unit
vFiler unit data from MIBs
What is not supported on a vFiler unit
Monitoring performance and statistics
Displaying storage system statistics
Displaying uptime statistics
Displaying NFS statistics
Displaying CIFS statistics
What IPspaces are
What to consider for a vFiler unit participation in an IPspace
Application of IPspaces
How interfaces participate in an IPspace
Routing in an IPspace
Loopback interfaces in IPspaces
Advantages of using VLAN tagging for IPspaces
Traffic separation
More IPspaces than interfaces are allowed
Secure delivery of packets to a vFiler unit in an IPspace
Active/active configuration and IPspaces
What the IPspace naming requirement is
IPspace assignment requirement
What an asymmetric active/active setup is
Specifying partners in an asymmetric active/active setup
Creating an IPspace
IPspace and the routed daemon
Listing IPspaces on a storage system
Removing an IP address from an interface
Assigning an interface to an IPspace
Destroying IPspaces
Creating a vFiler unit in a nondefault IPspace
File access using NFS and CIFS
How to access the vFiler unit's file system with NFS and CIFS
How to access a file system with CIFS
How to access a file system with NFS
How to specify path names for NFS exports or CIFS shares
How to prepare the vFiler unit for NFS
Starting the NFS protocol
Exporting all file systems in /etc/exports
How to prepare the vFiler unit for CIFS
Tasks that can be performed only on the host storage system
Per vFiler unit limit with CIFS
Local user accounts for vFiler units
Virus protection for CIFS
Who can configure virus scanning
Storage systems with which virus scanners can be registered
Virus scanning for vfiler0
Requirements for virus scanning on a vFiler unit other than vfiler0
Effect of virus scanner availability on CIFS access
Configuring virus scanning for a vFiler unit
Disaster recovery
How to prepare for disaster recovery
Checking and preparing the storage system
Storage checklist
Checking the network
Network checklist
Setting up a disaster recovery vFiler unit
Secure communication for setup of disaster recovery
Creating a disaster recovery vFiler unit
Deleting the disaster recovery vFiler unit
What the vfiler dr configure command does
Responding to a disaster
Activating the disaster recovery vFiler unit
What activating the disaster recovery vFiler unit does
How to reactivate the original vFiler unit after damage repair
Resynchronizing the vFiler unit
Handling resynchronization failures
Reactivating the original vFiler unit using SnapMirror commands
Reactivating the original vFiler unit using vFiler dr commands
Re-creating the vFiler unit on a replacement storage system
Data migration
What data migration is
Secure communication for setup of data migration
How migrating a vFiler unit affects clients
Methods of data migration
How to migrate a vFiler unit by copying data (SnapMirror)
Prerequisites for migrating a vFiler unit by copying data
What the vfiler migrate commands do
Adjusting client and network configurations if migrating to a different subnet
How to migrate a vFiler unit without copying data (SnapMover)
What SnapMover vFiler unit migration is
Enabling SnapMover vFiler unit migration
Requirements for vFiler unit migration between active/active nodes
Guidelines for setting up volumes to support vFiler unit migration
What SnapMover vFiler unit migration does
Performing vFiler unit migration on volumes
Disabling SnapMover vFiler unit migration
Disk space management using quotas
How to manage quotas
Allowing or disallowing quotas for a volume
Quota specification management
Turning quotas on or off from a vFiler unit
When quota thresholds and soft quotas are exceeded
How you can resize quotas
How the quotas file works
Displaying quota status
Displaying a quota report