SnapDrive for UNIX requires a host operating system, host file systems, NFS, volume managers, FC or iSCSI Host Utilities, storage system licenses, Data ONTAP software, MultiStore software, and Internet Protocol access.
The following is a list of host-side entities:
The following is a list of guest-side entities:
You must enter acceptable values for multipathing-type, fstype, default-transport, and vmtype variables in the snapdrive.conf file as provided in the matrix stack. You must ensure that the values entered are installed and running in your host system.
Host platform | Default transport type | Multipathing type | fstype | vmtype |
---|---|---|---|---|
Linux | FCP | none | ext4 | lvm |
iSCSI | none | ext4 | lvm | |
FCP | nativempio | ext4 | lvm | |
iSCSI | nativempio | ext4 | lvm | |
FCP | none | ext3 | lvm | |
iSCSI | none | ext3 | lvm | |
FCP | nativempio | ext3 | lvm | |
iSCSI | nativempio | ext3 | lvm |
NetApp modifies host utilities and components on an ongoing basis. You can track this changes by using the Interoperability Matrix that contains up-to-date information for using NetApp products in a SAN environment.
The storage system license and the MultiStore license constitute the storage system entities.