Data ONTAP® 8.2
MultiStore Management Guide
For 7-Mode
What MultiStore is
Benefits of using MultiStore
MultiStore for consolidating servers
MultiStore for service providers and enterprises
MultiStore for disaster recovery and data migration
The default vFiler unit
Number of vFiler units allowed
Data access from the hosting storage system
Hosting storage system tasks
MultiStore management
Types of vFiler unit administrators
Enabling MultiStore
Disabling MultiStore
Prerequisites for creating vFiler units
Storage guidelines
Naming guidelines
Language guidelines
Quota guidelines
HA pair guidelines
SAN guidelines
The vFiler commands
Ensuring that the network interface is ready
Creating a vFiler unit
Setting up a vFiler unit
vFiler unit storage management from the hosting storage system
Effects of adding, removing, and moving vFiler unit resources
Adding resources to a vFiler unit
Requirements for moving and removing resources
Removing resources from a vFiler unit
Moving resources between vFiler units
Default limits on the number of vFiler units
Maximum vFiler units allowed
Viewing the current limit on the number of vFiler units
Increasing the vFiler unit limit
Decreasing the vFiler unit limit
What the vfiler rename command does
Renaming a vFiler unit
Stopping a vFiler unit
Destroying a vFiler unit
Restoring a vFiler unit
Starting a vFiler unit
Protocols supported by a vFiler unit
Allowing a protocol on a vFiler unit
Effects of disallowing protocols on a vFiler unit
Disallowing a protocol on a vFiler unit
Displaying the vFiler unit status
Identifying commands that you can execute from a vFiler unit
Logging in to a vFiler unit
Limits on the number of interactive SSH sessions
Executing commands from a vFiler unit
Executing commands from the hosting storage system
Executing RSH commands for a vFiler unit
Executing SSH commands for a vFiler unit
List of RSH and SSH commands
Effects of storage system reboot on a vFiler unit
Volumes and qtrees on a vFiler unit
Effects of taking a vFiler unit volume offline
Changes required after volumes are renamed
Who can change volume or qtree security styles and oplock settings
Differences in qtree command output
Viewing all qtrees and the owner vFiler units
Backup of vFiler units
NDMP support
Available NDMP options
Support for the ndmpcopy command
NDMP command support
NDMP password support
LUNs on a vFiler unit
Guidelines for managing iSCSI LUNs and igroups on a vFiler unit
The iSCSI service on a vFiler unit
LUN and igroup limitations on vFiler units
Networking guidelines
The routed daemon on vFiler units
Command for changing the routing table in the default IPspace
The /etc/dgateways file
SnapMirror technology on the hosting storage system
Guidelines for using SnapMirror technology
Determining the status of SnapMirror relationships
Deduplication with vFiler units
Running deduplication commands on a vFiler unit
Data compression on vFiler units
Running data compression commands on a vFiler unit
How vFiler units work with FlexClone files and FlexClone LUNs
Backup of vFiler units using SnapVault
Where to enter SnapVault commands
Determining the status of SnapVault relationships
SNMP support on vFiler units
vFiler unit data from MIBs
Monitoring performance and statistics
Viewing storage system statistics
Viewing uptime statistics
Viewing NFS statistics
Viewing CIFS statistics
What an IPspace is
Guidelines for vFiler unit participation in an IPspace
IPspace application scenario
Interface participation in an IPspace
Routing in an IPspace
Advantages of using VLAN tagging for IPspaces
HA pair and IPspaces
IPspace naming requirement
IPspace assignment requirement
Asymmetric HA pair setup
Specifying partners in an asymmetric HA pair setup
Creating an IPspace
IPspace and the routed daemon
Listing IPspaces on a storage system
Removing an IP address from an interface
Assigning an interface to an IPspace
Destroying IPspaces
Creating a vFiler unit in a nondefault IPspace
File system access using NFS and CIFS
Path name specification for NFS exports or CIFS shares
vFiler unit preparation for NFS
Starting the NFS protocol
Exporting all file systems in /etc/exports
vFiler unit preparation for CIFS
Commands run from the hosting storage system
Local user accounts for vFiler units
Virus protection for CIFS
Virus scanner registration
Virus scanning on vFiler units
Effect of virus scanner availability on CIFS access
Configuring virus scanning for a vFiler unit
Disaster recovery using MultiStore
Checking and preparing the storage system
Storage checklist
Checking the network
Network checklist
Secure communication for disaster recovery
Creating a disaster recovery vFiler unit
Disaster recovery with SnapMirror IP address based verification and IPv6 addresses
Deleting the disaster recovery vFiler unit
The vfiler dr configure command
Activating the disaster recovery vFiler unit
What activating the disaster recovery vFiler unit does
Resynchronizing the vFiler unit
Handling resynchronization failures
Reactivating the original vFiler unit by using SnapMirror commands
Reactivating the original vFiler unit by using vfiler dr commands
Re-creating the vFiler unit on a replacement storage system
Data migration using MultiStore
Secure communication for data migration
How migrating a vFiler unit affects clients
Offline migration of vFiler units
The vfiler migrate commands
Migrating a vFiler unit by copying data
Adjusting client and network configurations if migrating to a different subnet
vFiler unit migration without copying data
Prerequisites for vFiler unit migration between the nodes of an HA pair
Guidelines for setting up volumes to support vFiler unit migration in an HA pair
vFiler unit migration in an HA pair
Migrating a vFiler unit by using the vfiler migrate -m nocopy command
What NetApp DataMotion for vFiler is
Features supported by DataMotion for vFiler
Considerations for online migration of vFiler units
Option required for online migration
Stages of a vFiler unit migration
How to perform online migration of vFiler units
Viewing the status of a vFiler unit migration
Commands not allowed during the cutover phase of online migration
Target portal group management for online migration of vFiler units
Data migration implications for IP-based target portal group management
Enabling IP-based target portal group management
Creating IP-based target portal groups
Adding IP addresses to IP-based target portal groups
Removing IP addresses from IP-based target portal groups
Destroying IP-based target portal groups
Displaying IP-based target portal group information
Disk space management using quotas
Allowing or disallowing quotas for a volume
Quota specification management
Turning on or turning off quotas from a vFiler unit
When quota thresholds and soft quotas are exceeded
How you can resize quotas
How the quotas file works
Displaying the quota status
Displaying a quota report
Copyright information
Trademark information
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