System management

Data ONTAP enables you to manage system activities and resources.

You can use Data ONTAP to perform the following system management tasks:

• Manage network connections
• Manage adapters
• Manage protocols
• Configure a pair of storage systems into high-availability configuration for failover
• Configure SharedStorage storage systems into a community
• Manage storage and quotas
• Dump data to tape and restore it to the storage system
• Mirror volumes (synchronously and asynchronously)
• Create vFiler units

  For information about vFiler units, see the Data ONTAP MultiStore Management Guide for 7-Mode.

For information about all Data ONTAP commands, see the Data ONTAP Commands: Manual Page Reference for 7-Mode, Volume 1 and the Data ONTAP Commands: Manual Page Reference for 7-Mode, Volume 2.