NetApp Clustered ONTAP - How to Create a Volume, CIFS Share and Global Namespace

hi my name is Joe Whelan I'm a systems engineer with NetApp and today we're going to talk about how to create a volume assist share and how to create and modify a global namespace in cluster data ontap so we're going to start off by talking about flexible volumes flexible volumes are logical containers that contain data used by your application this can include Nazz data Sam Lunz or both that recommends that Nazz data and Sam lund not be mixed in the same volume because each may have very different backup requirements two volumes are shown here for simplicity but many fast systems support up to thousands of volumes per controller and up to 12,000 volumes in a cluster each volume can have up to 255 snapshots snapshot copies are a powerful element of data ONTAP and they are the basis of most net application technologies when a snapshot copy of a flexible volume is created a read-only copy of the data in the volume at that point in time is created that means that application administrators can restore Lunz using the snapshot copy and end-users can restore their own files flexible volumes are stored in aggregates and aggregates provide the raw storage required by the flexible volumes flexible volumes can be mirrored archived or not at roughly move to other aggregates non-disruptive data mobility sometimes called Bob move or net update emotion for volumes is a key advantage of cluster data ONTAP it allow a cluster to continue serving data as the physical storage controllers are added or removed from it it also enables workload rebalancing and non-disruptive migration of storage services to different media types such as flash spinning media and flash pool aggregates no matter where volume goes it keeps its identity that means that its snapshot copies its replication relationships and other characteristics of the flexible volume remain the same so we're going to start our demo today by opening own command system manager going into the storage virtual machine clicking on the volumes tab and hitting create we're going to name our volume sysvol we're going to choose an aggregate for the volume to exist on and hit okay you see you have various storage types either Nazz sand or a data protection volume we're going to go with Nazz as we're creating a system we're creating the space the snapshot reserve space and you see that reflected below and we're also going to thin provision this volume we're going to quickly click on the namespace button on the left and you can see that the cysts volume volume has been mounted under the route mount point now we're going to go into shares and click the create chair button we're going to browse to the folder that we want to share so we go to the route mount point and under that we see sysvol if a volume is not mounted it cannot be shared we're going to click OK on that we're going to keep the share name the same although it could be different and we're going to click create next we're going to go into Windows Explorer and map a drive to the share that we just created so we're open my computer map network drive we're going to map it to the Y Drive so we're putting in the fully qualified path SVM one slash this fall now you see pretty simple creates a share we can go in here now and create files if you look at just a Y Drive just like we map any other network drive as if it was a Windows file server so we'll create a document we're just called a test one here and we can open that document modify it and save our changes no problem now we're going to create two additional volumes and demonstrate the global namespace functionality inside of cluster data ontap so same process as before we're going to go in there and now we're going to create two more volumes we're going to call this first one child 1 we're going to choose an aggregate hit OK again it's going to be Nazz or make it 10 gigs again and we within provision and hit create you see by default that it puts the namespace it mounts it directly under the route mount point you see child 1 at the same level as sis fall what we're going to do here is we're going to unmount Challen and go in there and remount it and this time we're going to mount it under sysvol and what that'll do is that'll make that look like it's a folder under that sharepoint going under the route mount point says fall hit ok and hit mount we're going to go back into Windows Explorer and now you see the child 1 mount point looks basically like a folder within Windows Explorer same exact functionality I can go in there create a document call it test to save make some changes and save my document so now what we're going to do is we're going to create a third volume we're going to call child to go through the same process choose an aggregate again it's Nazz we're making 10 gigs thin provision hit create again that is mounted directly under the root now point and we're going to modify that again going into the namespace we're going to unmount child 2 and we're going to mount it once again and the junction path will again go to the root mount point sis vol and hit ok so now we will see two mount points under the primary sheriff's s ball child 1 and child 2 when we go into Windows Explorer again same functionality I can go into that child 2 directory I can create a new document call it test 3 again I can modify that document I can make changes I can see this changes so now what we're going to do is we're going to unmount child 2 going back into own command system manager we're going to highlight child to unmount and this time we're going to mount it but we're going to mount it child 2 as a child mount point of child 1 so we're going to browse all the way down from the root to sysvol to child 1 and this gives demonstrating just the flexibility and the scalability of building out this giant global namespace throughout the cluster you see my type my original test documents in there child one is in there I see test 2 now child two directories in there and my test 3 document so you can just see it gives you enormous capability to modify that global namespace on the fly so this wraps up our demonstration today on how to create volumes how to create sift shares and how to create and modify a global namespace and cluster data ontap I hope this has been helpful and thank you for your time

Channel: Joe Whelan

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Keywords: NetApp (Venture Funded Company), Clustered Data ONTAP, Demo, Global Namespace, CIFS, Volume

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Length: 8min 10sec (490 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 01 2015