FlexVolume Reference: NetApp University - Introduction to NetApp Products Data production and data protection are the basic capabilities of any storage system. Data ONTAP software goes further by providing advanced storage efficiency capabilities. Traditional storage systems allocate data disk by disk, but the Data ONTAP operating system u...
WAFL Reference: Bitpushr: How Data ONTAP caches, assembles and writes data WAFL is our Write Anywhere File Layout. If NVRAM’s role is the most-commonly misunderstood, WAFL comes in 2nd. Yet WAFL has a simple goal, which is to write data in full stripes across the storage media. WAFL acts as an intermediary of sorts — there is a top half wh...
Storage Summary Reference: Me :) Vservers : contain one or more FlexVol volumes, or a single Infinite Volume Volume : is like a partition that can span multiple physical disks LUN : is a big file that is inside the volume. the LUN is what gets presented to the host. RAID, Volumes, LUNs and Aggregates Response #1 Reference: NetA...
Overview Source #1 Reference: Datadisk - NetApp Overview The NetApp filer also know as NetApp Fabric-Attached Storage (FAS) is a type of disk storage device which owns and controls a filesystem and present files and directories over the network, it uses an operating systems called Data ONTAP (based on FreeBSD). NetApp Filers can offer th...
I have recently started working on a FlexPod environment. The environment relies on NetApp for all of its storage needs, but unfortunately I hadn’t worked with NetApp products before. Because of this I have been spending most of my spare time reading and labbing so that I could build my skills up as quickly as possible. An issue I ran into, and...