‘272823, 9:44 PM NetApp Storage Architecture Tutorial -FlackBox Home (https:/www.flackbox.com/) » Tutorials (https://www,flackbox.com/tutorials), » Architecture Tutorial NetApp Storage Architecture Tutorial SS HSS VAMOS es i eae -course) we ee nsciiliaip coral @i.(ottps-/Amuw.facebook.com/flackboxtyjo. O)_Grttovémaw dtackebox.com/?feed=rss) EMAIL ADDRESS DOWNLOAD! Step by step instructions on how to build a complete NetApp lab, all on your laptop for free. The NetApp Storage Architecture — Video Tutorial nips www. fackbox.cominetapp-storage-architecture-tutorial ane‘272823, 44 PM NetApp Storage Architecture Tutorial -FlackBox Disks and Aggregates At the bottom level of the storage architecture we have our physical disks - our hard drives. Our disks get grouped into aggregates, so an aggregate is a set of physical disks. One of the attributes of our aggregates is the RAID group which defines the RAID configuration (http://www flackbox.com/raid-storage). Aggregates |----; (RAID Groups) a Disks NetApp Storage Architecture - Disks, Aggregates and RAID Groups hitps:www.lackbox.com/netapp-storage-architecture-tutoria ane‘272823, 9:44 PM NetApp Storage Architecture Tutorial -FlackBox If you look in the System Manager GUI, you will see that there is a page for disks where you can view all of your disks, and there's a page for aggregates, where you can view and configure your aggregates. There's not a page for RAID groups however. The reason for that is your RAID groups are an attribute of your mmgogTegates, so your RAID groups are configured on the aggregate page. 63 (https://youtube.com/c/Flackbox? fihnnvanidinkedin.com/in/flackboxtv) | (https://twitter.com/flackboxtv), lowest level that clients can access data at, so you will always have disks, aggregates and volumes on a NetApp ONTAP system. You can share (for Windows) or export (for UNIX/Linux) a volume and then clients can access it. 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Ei bhitosvfitimatidinkédin.com/in/flackboxtv) CP mee rualter SOT a our Logical Unit ),. err a dedicated volume or Qtree for each LUN (do not put multiple LUNs in the same volume or Qtree). nips www. fackbox.cominetapp-storage-architecture-tutorial‘272823, 9:44 PM im _(https://youtube.com/c/Flackbox? ed Khitosfitwmvaidinkedin.com/in/flackboxtv) © (https://twitter.com/flackboxtv) €3_(https:/Avww.facebook.com/flackboxtv) & (https://Awww.flackbox.com/?feed=rss), NetApp Storage Architecture Organisation You can see the different components build on top of each other. We need to have our physical disks. Our disks get grouped into aggregates. For our clients to be able to access data we configure our volumes, which go in our aggregates, and optionally we can configure Qtrees which go in our volumes and appear as a directory to NAS clients. Lastly, if we're using SAN protocols we'll need to configure LUNs. Our LUNs either go into a Qtree or into a volume. hitps:www.lackbox.com/netapp-storage-architecture-tutoria ene‘rzaza, oe Pu NetApp Storage Architecture Total - FlackBox The mandatory components are the disks, aggregates, and volumes. Qtrees are optional, and LUNs are for SAN Protocols only - you wouldn't have LUNs if you were using only NAS protocols. fe couiesl /lyoutube.com/c/Flackbox? Ei bhitosvfitimatidinkédin.com/in/flackboxtv) © (https://twitter.com/flackboxtv) €3_(https:/Avww.facebook.com/flackboxtv) & (https://Awww.flackbox.com/?feed=rss), ‘SVM Storage Virtual Machines nips www. fackbox.cominetapp-storage-architecture-tutorial me‘rzaza, oe Pu NetApp Storage Architecture Total - FlackBox The other storage architecture component to tell you about is Storage Virtual Machines (SVMs). These used to be known as Vservers, but they were renamed to SVMs in a more recent version of ONTAP. ‘Storage Virtual Machine’ and ‘Vserver’ both mean exactly the same thing pr re Be UVOt HHS ES RHEE y' (Sisgrgnder Storase ; f ‘ vk eu med ese © (https://twitter.com/flackboxtv) Aattes.//www.facebook.com/flackboxtv) | (https://www.flackbox.com/?feed=rss), Say that you've got two different departments - Department A and Department B They want to have their own separate secure storage. In the old days, what you would have to do is buy two completely separate storage systems, and you would require separate supporting network infrastructure for them as well. This would be pretty expensive. What you can do with NetApp ONTAP and Storage Virtual Machines now, is you can have one physical storage system, but you can virtualize it into separate logical storage systems, which are kept secure and separate from each other. Each SVM appears as a separate storage system to clients. The physical resources of our disks and our aggregates are shared throughout the entire cluster, they're not dedicated to individual SVMs. The reason for this is if we had dedicated aggregates, maybe the aggregate for department Ais pretty empty, and the aggregate for department B is getting really full. hitps:www.lackbox.com/netapp-storage-architecture-tutoria ang‘272823, 9:44 PM NetApp Storage Architecture Tutorial -FlackBox If the aggregates were dedicated at the SVM level, you would have to go and buy more disks for department B, even though you've got spare disks on Department A. Aggregates are a shared resource to ensure we get the most efficient use of our capacity. os://youtube.com/c/Flackbox? ieSry rh HFPACRBOREV) ‘ang-eparimy xv i. Other re its name space IP addresses live). The SVMs can have their own separate SVM level dedicated administrators with different usernames and passwords. 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