You can use datasets to group data and use resource pools to group storage to simplify the monitoring, provisioning, reporting, and access control of your SnapVault and SnapMirror relationships, which enables flexible and efficient use of storage.
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Dataset concepts
Associating data protection, disaster recovery, a provisioning policy, or a storage service with a dataset enables storage administrators to automate tasks, such as assigning consistent policies to primary data, propagating policy changes, and provisioning new volumes, qtrees, or LUNs on primary and secondary dataset nodes.
Dataset guidelines
These guidelines can help you optimize the advantages of using datasets.
Overview of export protocols
You can configure NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, or Fibre Channel (FC) export protocols for client access to a dataset. You can configure an export protocol for an entire dataset by assigning a provisioning policy or for a specific dataset member.
When to configure datasets
You should configure datasets when you have identified which data to group for protection or provisioning.
Dataset storage space management The NetApp Management Console provisioning capability enables you to view space allocations for volumes, LUNs, and qtrees. You can also resize individual volumes or qtrees, and modify volume data and Snapshot copy space allocations in response to space-usage generated error or warning events.
About naming settings for protection or provisioning related objects
To improve recognition and usability, you can customize the dataset-level naming settings for protection or provisioning related objects, Snapshot copies, primary volumes, secondary volumes, and secondary qtrees that are created by default by NetApp Management Console protection and provisioning operations on datasets.