NetApp Storage Environment

Module Objectives

By the end of 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 storage area network (SAN) topologies

Describe NetApp unified storage architecture

Access the NetApp Support site to obtain software and hardware documentation

Storage Industry

Data storage—an industry worth US $27 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

NetApp: Leader in the Storage Industry

NetApp firsts:

First in the industry to support unified

storage (NAS and SAN) on one platform

First in the industry with Fibre Channel over

Ethernet (FCoE) support and Unified

Connect

First storage vendor to decouple physical

storage from logical storage (flexible volumes)

NetApp: Leader in Innovation and Quality

NetApp provides:

State-of-the-art hardware solutions

Award-winning OS platforms

Software management products

NetApp Hardware Solution: FASNetApp provides FAS solutions

(also called storage controllers):

FAS6200 series—enterprise storage

FAS3200 series—performance storage

FAS2000 series—departmental storage

FAS6280FAS6280

FAS3270FAS3270

FAS2050

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B

FAS6200 seriesFAS3200 series FAS2000 series

NOTE: Data ONTAP 8.0 not supported on FAS2020 or FAS2050

NetApp FAS Storage Systems

Old

Models

Max

CapacityReplaces

New

Models*

Max

Capacity

64-Bit

Aggregate

Limit*

FAS2020 68 TB -

FAS2040 272 TB 30 TB

FAS2050 104 TB → FAS3210 420 TB 50 TB

FAS3140 840 TB → FAS3240 1200 TB 50 TB

FAS3160 1344 TB → FAS3270 1920 TB 70 TB

FAS3170 1680 TB → FAS6210 2400 TB 70 TB

FAS6040 1680 TB → FAS6240 3840 TB 100 TB

FAS6080 2352 TB → FAS6280 5760 TB 100 TB

* Based on the Data ONTAP 8.0.1 7-Mode operating system

FAS6210 model in a

dual- controller

configuration

NetApp FAS6200 SeriesFAS6210 model in a single- controller

configuration

FAS6280 model in a single-controller

configuration with

an optional I/O expansion

module (IOXM)

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NetApp Hardware Solution: V-Series

NetApp provides V-Series solutions for virtualization of

heterogeneous storage:

V6200 series—enterprise storage

V3200—performance storage

FAS6280FAS6280

V6200 series

FAS3270FAS3270

V3200 series

SSDs in a NetApp Disk ShelfSolid-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

NetApp: Leader in Innovation and Quality

NetApp provides:

State-of-the-art hardware solutions

Award-winning OS platforms

Software management products

NetApp OS Platforms: Data ONTAP

Data

ONTAP

GX

7-

ModeCluste

r-Mode

Data ONTAP 8.0.x Operating System

7-Mode

Simple transition from Data ONTAP 7G

Scale-up technology that enables aggregates to be 100 TB (higher in the future)

Simple configuration for NAS or SAN

Cluster-Mode

Simple transition from Data ONTAP GX

Scale-out technology that enables a pool of storage controllers to manage the storage cluster

One NAS namespace shared across the cluster

Storage PoolStorage Pool

7-ModeCluster-

Mode

NetApp Software Management Products Storage suite

Operations Manager

Protection Manager

Provisioning Manager

File Storage Resource

Manager

Server suite

SnapDrive® for UNIX®

SnapDrive for Windows

Application suite

SnapManager® for Exchange

SnapManager for SharePoint®

SnapManager for SAP®

SnapManager for Oracle®

SnapManager for SQL Server™

Data center: SANscreen

NetApp StorageGRIDObject-Based Storage Solution

StorageGRID® object-based storage solution

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Nat

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Acc

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Po

licy

AP

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NASProtocols

Namespace

HTTP RESTProtocol Policy-

drivenauto-

managementMetadata

tagging and search

Object-level data management

Location-transparent distributed object store

Data ONTAP 8.0.X

NAS and SAN Topology

SAN

(block-level

access)

NAS

(file-level

access)

NFS

CIFSCorporate

LAN

iSCSI

FCoE

FC

NetApp FAS

Protocols Supported by Data ONTAPNetApp storage systems support SAN and NAS protocols simultaneously:

NAS

NFS

CIFS

FTP

HTTP

WebDAV

SAN

FC

iSCSI

FCoE

Data

ONTAP

LAN (Ethernet)

FC Network

iSCSI

CIFS

NFS

FC

FCoE

Data ONTAP 7.3.x Architecture

Disk

Array

Clients

StorageRAIDProtocolsNetwork

NVRAM

WAFL

Physical

Memory

Data ONTAP 8.0.x 7-Mode Architecture

StorageRAIDProtocolsNetwork

D-Blade

NVRAM

WAFL

Physical

Memory

FreeBSD

Disk

Array

Clients

M-H

ost

Clien

t Pro

tocol

Access

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 site—formerly NOW®

(NetApp on the Web)

AutoSupport and My AutoSupport

NetApp Support Site

Module Summary

In this module, you should have learned 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