system manager 1.1 customer presentation feb 2010

System Manager 1.1

Customer Presentation

Feb 2010

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Agenda Overview IT challenges and solutionsBusiness challenges and solutionsFeatures and benefitsAvailability, licensing and

requirements

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Large aggregate supportSupports aggregates larger than 16 TB (Should be configured

with Data ONTAP 8.0)

Quota managementCreate, define, edit, configure, and delete quotas using a wizard.

V-series supportYou can view the array LUNs (group of disks or disk partitions),

create aggregates, and add array LUNs to an existing aggregate.

NFS protocol configurationSystem Manager 1.1 supports NFS protocol configuration.

New Features in System Manager 1.1


Free Windows® based management

application for NetApp® storage systems

System Manager : Overview

Out-of-box setup – Simple active/active pair setup– CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, FC configuration

Simple device management – Intuitive Windows MMC 3.0-based GUI– Disk aggregate management– Storage provisioning– Storage efficiency mgmt (e.g., dedupe)– SnapDrive® integration– Snapshot

™ management

Platforms– FAS2xxx, FAS3xxx, FAS31xx , FAS6xxx

and V-Series

http://web.netapp.com/engineering/design-depot/appliance-mgmt/single-element/arsenic/images/fs/cifs-hl-share-create-wizard-1aa.PNG


WHAT IS IT?

WHAT DOES IT DO?

System Manager Overview

System Manager is a NetApp® solution for stand-alone management of a single NetApp storage system

Windows® snap-in Currently qualified for FAS2XXX, FAS3XXX, and

FAS6XXX systems and Data ONTAP® 7.2.3 or greater

Storage management – Manage disks, aggregates, volumes, qtrees

Protocol management– Including NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, FCP

Networking– DNS, NIS, network interfaces)

Configuration – AutoSupport, license management, SNMP,

date/time, security settings, syslog, ...


IT Challenges

Setup and ongoing management of NetApp® storage systems – Admin may be unfamiliar with Data ONTAP® (FilerView®)– Scripts are difficult to manage and maintain

No time to learn a new tool– Little or no time to learn the details and best practices

associated with storage

Increased responsibilities with same or reduced resources– Data exploding– Productivity declining


SystemManager

IT Solution

System Manager is easy to use Familiar Windows® “look and feel” Manage from a single console

– Snap-in for Microsoft® Management Console (MMC) Not a storage expert…don’t worry

– Powerful functionality guides you with: Storage management Protocol management Networking Configuration

Improve productivity and response time– Wizards help automate and expedite storage workflow


Business Challenges

Storage management– Storage demands growing– Lack storage expertise– Productivity declining

Resource constraints– Budget constraints– Limited personnel – Difficult to meet continued

business needs


Business Solution

System Manager runs in Windows® environments– Uses the familiar Microsoft®

Management Console (MMC) to manage your NetApp® storage

– Manage multi-protocol paths together

Storage Management Made Easy


Business Solution

No impact to your budget– System Manager is available at no additional charge for

qualified NetApp® platforms

Improve productivity– Automate the storage workflows– Improve response time for storage requests– Dashboards exist for single systems and active/active pairs,

with basic graphing, notifications and reminders

Improve utilization – Take advantage of space saving techniques such as

deduplication, provisioning and Snapshot™ copies– Server virtualization wizard for VMware® ESX Server

Balance Your Resources


System Manager Key Features and Benefits

Features Benefits

Windows®

support Familiarity in “look and feel” Windows® snap-in

Discovery and setup

Discover new and existing storage systems, and configure them using a simplified setup wizard

Navigation Navigate between (and manage) multiple storage systems

Storage Simplify initial storage configuration on new systems. Use FlexVol®, deduplication, provisioning and Snapshot™ to improve

storage efficiency Server virtualization Wizard for VMware® ESX Server

Multi-protocol support

We’ve merged the workflows to manage NAS and SAN

Active/active management

New active/active configurations are detected and set up together System navigation groups active/active pairs together

Monitoring and Alerting

Dashboards exist for single systems and active/active pairs, with basic graphing, notifications and reminders.

http://www.netapp.com/us/products/platform-os/high-availability-system-config.html


Licensing

Product is available at no additional charge for NetApp customers who have access to NOW (See requirements)

Protocols (e.g., NFS, CIFS, FCP) are managed per controller according to Data ONTAP® licenses present


Important Points

DHCP required– For discovery and setup from

factory configuration

SNMP required– For ongoing monitoring– SNMP community is tunable


Data ONTAP® Platform Requirements

Supported platforms– NetApp® FAS2XXX, FAS3XXX, FAS31XX,

FAS6XXX – IBM N3XXX, N5XXX, and N6XXX – Data ONTAP® 7.2.3+ and later..


Supported Desktops for Installation

Windows® desktops– 32-bit Windows XP, 2003– 64-bit Vista®, 2008– VMware® XP 32 bit guest OS– Microsoft® Server 2008 Hyper-V™ unsupported

at this time (Guest OS)

Hardware requirements– None identified– Runs fine on older hardware


System Manager 1.1

© 2009 NetApp. All rights reserved.

Thank You

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system manager 1.1 customer presentation feb 2010

Documents

greater storage management

netapp solution

storage workflow slide

license management

standalone management

quota management

storage expertdont

qtrees protocol management